On a wet and cloudy day at carrot seed preschool, the children were very excited to get outside to play in the puddles. There is one puddle, in the middle of the play yard, that the children love to put their hands in and scoop the water into bowls, buckets, or whatever they can find. O was jumping up and down in the middle
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“Let the children wear summer in their hair; petals, rainwater, salt water, lake water… Let them dig their toes in sand, mud, grass….” Elizabeth Burgard
While we celebrate Universal Children’s Day we must take a look at how far we have come in understanding how our children learn. While many ideas of how children learn have come and gone, what has always held true is how quickly they absorb information they are interested in, and how far their amazing imaginations can take their ideas when given the chance. Click
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M asks E, “What do you hear?” “the dolphins…” is her response. “He’s eating this”, says E. She continues to move the whale around the sea star. Then brings a dolphin over to eat as well. E selects jewels and arranges them in a basket. She then places another sea star on top of the jewels. “The dolphins are
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At the beginning of the day, R, E, and A build a block structure under the stairs. After about 10 minutes, they leave it to play somewhere else, and we do not ask them to clean it up. Instead, we offer the chance for others to come and use it or for the original builders to return. About 45
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