Toys Come In
A recent discussion on a teacher forum around the question, “Do let children bring toys from home?” reminded me of this post we shared in 2014.
Summer Report
Remember summer days? Remember when there was nothing to do and also not enough time to finish doing nothing? Read books, watch leaves float down a stream, throw rocks, collect rocks, build houses and stores, or just sit and talk? So much nothing to do each day.
Storytelling, The Forever Story
The class journal, “The Forever Story” is amazing from the first page to the last. It’s so interesting to read how the children embraced this method of collective story telling and offered their own, unique and lovely additions to a story that goes on forever.
Travel Light...City & Forest
We travel light to city and forest, but we aren’t really traveling light, are we? We bring our own play histories with us and we share these with the children. We help them find ingredients for potions, sticks for fairy houses, leaves for letters and packages. We gift them with story and imagination.
Let's Talk About Art
Some of the children will grow up to be artists. And all of them, every single one, will know how to solve a problem, how to climb out on a limb, how to take a risk with expressing ideas in a visual medium to connect with other humans whether they are the artist expressing it or they are the viewer enjoying it.