Julia Nobel

Last week we experienced a ‘pineapple express’ in Victoria, which meant we had warm temperatures and pouring rain.  Our kids thought wet and warm was the perfect combination!              

     We started with blocks and styrofoam.      “What is this?” he asks. “It’s a box,” she answers.        Some children built inside the box…           …some built beside.       Some children crammed blocks into all the cracks and crevices…   …while others built for the simple joy of knocking them down.  

“We need wood!”       “I think we might need more….”                            “We’ll get it!”   “We still need more!”      This one is heavy!  I need help!   Is this enough?                                                  Yeah!  Now let’s take it off!                

“Hey, let’s use these as lily pads!”     “Let’s get lots and have a lily pad party!”      “We need two more.”      “I need to practice my balancing.”      “Wait, stop!  There’s another one!” “Hey, it looks like the number 7!”         

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Powder Paints + Snow + Coffee Filters = Snow Painting!           “I’m making snow!”                     “I’m making a snow pizza!” “I like stirring it up!” “I’m finished now.”      

“Messy art develops important cognitive, social-emotional and multi-sensory skills. Self directed learning with fluid, sensory and tactile art materials is especially important in early childhood and continues to have benefits for older children as well.” Anna Reyner, Early Childhood Art Advocate                       “Messy art lets children discover the emotional pleasures of sensory and tactile play while they learn important lessons of cause and effect
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               “Books do not belong in the library or just on the bookshelf at home….They should be under the pillows, stacked by the bed, in every nook and cranny….Books and words need to be as familiar to children as the food they eat, the music they hear, and the art they do.”  Bev Bos “Teachers and parents need to be readers.  Children need
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“These can be our Christmas lights!”           “Let’s put them on the stairs!” One friend takes them off the stairs and starts throwing them and another friend objects.  “I need some!” the first friend says.  “Here, you can use the red ones,” the other friend offers.           The ‘lights’ are carefully placed on the stairs again.  “Let’s go to sleep and wait for Santa!”

      “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