tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62339839954952032902024-03-14T11:47:55.423-04:00Atelierista: stories from a studioThis is a Sabot at Stony Point blog. The opinions expressed here are my own. I hope I've shown the learning processes of children in the spirit which I view them; as valuable contributions that evoke wonder and enrich my teaching practice.Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.comBlogger444125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-44477620048866935292023-10-04T12:37:00.002-04:002023-10-04T12:37:24.838-04:00Studio and Umbrella Project Update<p><br /></p><table style="background-color: white; background-image: none !important; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; color: black; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 5px !important; vertical-align: top;"><table style="background-image: none !important; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 5px !important; vertical-align: top;"><table style="background-image: none !important; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 5px !important; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What's been happening with the studio and umbrella project? Well in the preschool, Kindergartens, grades one and two, I have been listening as well as bringing materials and ideas as provocations to help the children think about movement. <br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some of the habits of mind good studio questions and provocations help develop are; </span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Responding with Wonderment & Awe</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Engage & Persist</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Envision</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Express</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Observe</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Reflect</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Stretch & Explore</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Find Humor</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">-can you find any of these habits of mind happening in the photos below?<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQk8r2XEATQDK9QftKUGu6pHqbmK9gyR2Ue4OUDQTBoJy_6ow2mWI9uI7ZZJu3hhW9__Am5zfmQN6gJZlzqkJWA-PSAfJGRfBo0wCehNG-a0KKJGzDAWwz9n2jqyYEdEetVXDS3jcezXB5fFeBMsXaPUACfbePoZnneRCFGnBy4JGNcWCygyAQySJZ3YQ/s2046/IMG_0143-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQk8r2XEATQDK9QftKUGu6pHqbmK9gyR2Ue4OUDQTBoJy_6ow2mWI9uI7ZZJu3hhW9__Am5zfmQN6gJZlzqkJWA-PSAfJGRfBo0wCehNG-a0KKJGzDAWwz9n2jqyYEdEetVXDS3jcezXB5fFeBMsXaPUACfbePoZnneRCFGnBy4JGNcWCygyAQySJZ3YQ/w640-h640/IMG_0143-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiLR8mcPPGIhjt5sWHOzx7i4HLVzFx7DKHOz923R_CcTlf5OLltA26Sm4Vu9dy2pLrRyHWwMLZp7L5i_zOM7JrrYMjqy8kH99n3SBqBKwvEGk-nfV2nQcNuuA18Z2K0GtB8QcpTXJfoQedocdQubxgf0Gz_o8bChibzpPFCt4hOKUwg6RppzfJvxYHG8nl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiLR8mcPPGIhjt5sWHOzx7i4HLVzFx7DKHOz923R_CcTlf5OLltA26Sm4Vu9dy2pLrRyHWwMLZp7L5i_zOM7JrrYMjqy8kH99n3SBqBKwvEGk-nfV2nQcNuuA18Z2K0GtB8QcpTXJfoQedocdQubxgf0Gz_o8bChibzpPFCt4hOKUwg6RppzfJvxYHG8nl=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></div><br /> In the Garden room, children are thinking about things moving through doors or walls. I brought their attention to a way generations of garden room children have been moving things between rooms. Children have to be persistent because only things that are just the right size will pass through the holes.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uWLrantCCiQv9Sf7SrrO_j8ygsP6lKlch-p3G4lCLn7jT2ydSMLUIqscx2tqot37f5MAJp97VppoqtrJ8pBqsNUk12X6WR3gNpEFmz_7A1Vk9aj5vx6VWTQ2bgOhB4pzqVkgOiBfzSq4tAzSJEox_BHK4M5yD1uxRC9UA2Y9P22QvnV0tdueN-B5_zVZ/s2046/IMG_9928-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uWLrantCCiQv9Sf7SrrO_j8ygsP6lKlch-p3G4lCLn7jT2ydSMLUIqscx2tqot37f5MAJp97VppoqtrJ8pBqsNUk12X6WR3gNpEFmz_7A1Vk9aj5vx6VWTQ2bgOhB4pzqVkgOiBfzSq4tAzSJEox_BHK4M5yD1uxRC9UA2Y9P22QvnV0tdueN-B5_zVZ/w640-h640/IMG_9928-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">In the Rainbow Room, children tried using brads to make art that moves.Some children had never used a hole puncher.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhysk4hqrOfzUcgQ215u_cdByzmh_E3HRkH1G0B4yIzR8QJ51OIqAZbaM7mWiReKU2Mn6cIHLVbBf7bFucLnEpbXQpCnPGPxLc524zow1_0bYj70xySflttGsgLZFEph-oYmL8OOGdXu1uPNLqKYIElUWvB0-1rc9D7qEnW_lDZY257Jd3PGhfvq17x-303/s4032/IMG_0048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhysk4hqrOfzUcgQ215u_cdByzmh_E3HRkH1G0B4yIzR8QJ51OIqAZbaM7mWiReKU2Mn6cIHLVbBf7bFucLnEpbXQpCnPGPxLc524zow1_0bYj70xySflttGsgLZFEph-oYmL8OOGdXu1uPNLqKYIElUWvB0-1rc9D7qEnW_lDZY257Jd3PGhfvq17x-303/w300-h400/IMG_0048.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The studio is transformed into a movement lab.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiLg9FBTb-Vz-aZfVXwaWncbaT_5i6GnJwhHHxckskTqED6RfRq_GdBFqAspyHVFmBGBTSzeWEP8PZtHvJ3m9jpc2lq07OedQHBjHGWd1389MMsBLuvgX_MUnNaYTzyCrPQiwxc3Y9zwqKcvbrCY8K5eWXBIrVPp-a-iQgEO5XUUDhQP_-W73DrNVkLl5t" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2046" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiLg9FBTb-Vz-aZfVXwaWncbaT_5i6GnJwhHHxckskTqED6RfRq_GdBFqAspyHVFmBGBTSzeWEP8PZtHvJ3m9jpc2lq07OedQHBjHGWd1389MMsBLuvgX_MUnNaYTzyCrPQiwxc3Y9zwqKcvbrCY8K5eWXBIrVPp-a-iQgEO5XUUDhQP_-W73DrNVkLl5t=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wit great joy we took pictures and looked at this body moving!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1S5Ke0bXehP7HZtSBNZOyUuHvA8m12S6yCcs3qQC2HRaEyLVqiTPMMO89AOLFZ5hR5Fgm-koIG7Ofzk82Hq3PH9dWTEEWkHWt14qjkyAQYztbMju5DJPJE_ouBOeZ4ODkSrUIoJl3SIScziO_blF7CfZQ57GhK_YaCyxVmK6IqyOFjnT4kb6HMuvj_B0G=w300-h400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">making a skeleton with paper and brads</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1S5Ke0bXehP7HZtSBNZOyUuHvA8m12S6yCcs3qQC2HRaEyLVqiTPMMO89AOLFZ5hR5Fgm-koIG7Ofzk82Hq3PH9dWTEEWkHWt14qjkyAQYztbMju5DJPJE_ouBOeZ4ODkSrUIoJl3SIScziO_blF7CfZQ57GhK_YaCyxVmK6IqyOFjnT4kb6HMuvj_B0G" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Hole punches and brads have inspired a lot of thinking about motion. K through<br /> Second graders have discovered all sorts of things to make with brads as connectors, from cars to characters and animals. In Hope's kindergarten the 'art that moves' turned into puppets and puppet shows.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the photos you can see former preschool children with a twin, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a brother in a leg cast</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and a school bus giving two bunnies a ride.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdneBsHdJHVABwmWZKv714tqV-EinrXHCeqZv2dLuF9oaQNPa08Cd5JhVjh_H2xCg7L3A64dMAHzQ4rB4-AoGWMMVqEE95a5eYQarR2dHnLbsGC1-u0v6FFn92nv2pK5RSf0CfpeFws9CnCKtS7300TVHZPsIln4M7zPrPpeYdob7RnAbuJ-XkY38POF2F/s3200/IMG_0267.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3200" data-original-width="2149" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdneBsHdJHVABwmWZKv714tqV-EinrXHCeqZv2dLuF9oaQNPa08Cd5JhVjh_H2xCg7L3A64dMAHzQ4rB4-AoGWMMVqEE95a5eYQarR2dHnLbsGC1-u0v6FFn92nv2pK5RSf0CfpeFws9CnCKtS7300TVHZPsIln4M7zPrPpeYdob7RnAbuJ-XkY38POF2F/w269-h400/IMG_0267.HEIC" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgN4qmaTvrb69HMZOjR5m9lLgIt6Wvq74m1eA1TAM8B4YHZ9x1HMAmdfYIJqq9gMqpmYrAkt7BYknRMrj1dEPsY_j1k_g-97MGaTrLoDjncl3aRJmUenorgeEvNvH5qTK6gYn3W-yKhaNMaRCyguUfzwYpXTohQjELDWxcRrnXsPTEtp_lSCcCu78fmvX4X" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgN4qmaTvrb69HMZOjR5m9lLgIt6Wvq74m1eA1TAM8B4YHZ9x1HMAmdfYIJqq9gMqpmYrAkt7BYknRMrj1dEPsY_j1k_g-97MGaTrLoDjncl3aRJmUenorgeEvNvH5qTK6gYn3W-yKhaNMaRCyguUfzwYpXTohQjELDWxcRrnXsPTEtp_lSCcCu78fmvX4X=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADGFeX53CQR1o6LJjxk7F8uxxc7dTZr-iNAOPm0FzyZG5KH4-pS0lPXakhp3avbBvKRHoUO9CnpwCe0lzHua_Mq3mPdMLAQ15doZ94MMgw7HAHhK_SU9f2FQ_SLDOHVeh-2wISCydXZlHfQXOmrIRnS1bKlTHUx38N4C76iWGIT2209iH6XIREXoI8RvR/s2905/IMG_0265.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2905" data-original-width="2791" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhADGFeX53CQR1o6LJjxk7F8uxxc7dTZr-iNAOPm0FzyZG5KH4-pS0lPXakhp3avbBvKRHoUO9CnpwCe0lzHua_Mq3mPdMLAQ15doZ94MMgw7HAHhK_SU9f2FQ_SLDOHVeh-2wISCydXZlHfQXOmrIRnS1bKlTHUx38N4C76iWGIT2209iH6XIREXoI8RvR/w384-h400/IMG_0265.HEIC" width="384" /></a></div></span></span><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-10876513374575993092023-09-27T13:31:00.001-04:002023-09-27T13:31:10.095-04:00Wonderful Game<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">In the Hive, </span><span style="background-color: white;">children invented this brilliant game. Someone builds a structure out of blocks while everyone else sits "on the seats". When the builder is ready, she says so, and the other children can come and knock the blocks<br /> down!<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Have you ever seen such an elegant solution? </span><span style="background-color: white;"> This game helps the child who wants to build in piece AND those who really want to knock things down. It scaffolds </span><span style="background-color: white;">those with less impulse control to sit with a friend and wait, and gives some control to the builder, who may otherwise just get very frustrated by the knock-downers!</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMyFsmfL4pMh-tLcZREj6iT2RrRBsXj5jDPgNeLrSn7vHvBPil542yv88UB1eX1P7zn1S0nYMqRi1kd16_Lw3aazQ4YWJH8JjA3ObQSdHQ0xzfharpWM7SYygK-V-yhTZn-NbkvUsJ_0MULtj9fOgLq0uN1V2CWafji65PysvGo_6XBIL8HU0lIkIka6L/s2047/IMG_9984-COLLAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCMyFsmfL4pMh-tLcZREj6iT2RrRBsXj5jDPgNeLrSn7vHvBPil542yv88UB1eX1P7zn1S0nYMqRi1kd16_Lw3aazQ4YWJH8JjA3ObQSdHQ0xzfharpWM7SYygK-V-yhTZn-NbkvUsJ_0MULtj9fOgLq0uN1V2CWafji65PysvGo_6XBIL8HU0lIkIka6L/w640-h640/IMG_9984-COLLAGE.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-66544546842317014992023-09-06T13:31:00.001-04:002023-09-08T20:51:48.423-04:00Umbrella Project - Movement<p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'Umbrella project' is a metaphor- each year Sabot chooses one idea which is like an umbrella over the whole school. It creates a path for teacher's documentation, makes cross-age interactions happen in an authentic way, and (we hope) excites Families and brings you into our learning community.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5jzWlzN2wx3dUMewyYoBsF4Xo0ztWqZpZOd0Pzp9xwz0HaGcltiDJlISH3uj4JTzdzFme8wQWkYlCXzDQehU5WLwaeFBG-cFH9Rn0p8bofz-HRkCf_vnv-BhFTxXQ1B7QniQT9PCiWHqudDhlfHC-c2tTIu_F3Bx49FsoiMBCWQ_XekN47hdir1GwVpNI/s3265/IMG_9714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3265" data-original-width="2349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5jzWlzN2wx3dUMewyYoBsF4Xo0ztWqZpZOd0Pzp9xwz0HaGcltiDJlISH3uj4JTzdzFme8wQWkYlCXzDQehU5WLwaeFBG-cFH9Rn0p8bofz-HRkCf_vnv-BhFTxXQ1B7QniQT9PCiWHqudDhlfHC-c2tTIu_F3Bx49FsoiMBCWQ_XekN47hdir1GwVpNI/s320/IMG_9714.jpg" width="230" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxOORZohIhQ2tw2CKQgG5f87tnHpmBgpVxT-SOtzpcBPPMCINryUNLQTKVteaZBtOvKz7VttiRv4iKPL1VlVtY2q9J7wvlNkrrgXEot0ey_vETxc2XyQn-sWLzHj1je82k5YwDjbkSWPym1pmwixNSiqzlg94Oq7cvQsoqVAtGM6V6SDEGamcwyzj-TGOG/s2656/figure1.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2656" data-original-width="2247" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxOORZohIhQ2tw2CKQgG5f87tnHpmBgpVxT-SOtzpcBPPMCINryUNLQTKVteaZBtOvKz7VttiRv4iKPL1VlVtY2q9J7wvlNkrrgXEot0ey_vETxc2XyQn-sWLzHj1je82k5YwDjbkSWPym1pmwixNSiqzlg94Oq7cvQsoqVAtGM6V6SDEGamcwyzj-TGOG/s320/figure1.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwbvbhgVAj1ROFQ5R4DJ8LFGGc33avMHPyv0q_PlKua9vsnm418TJbOR2U_MSgyW2BKvInEPIqiDNHvy6RBUG_CooKuNIwOLL0q-BGamo632uHABFfkDJqnefPX23qhEZ9pbWakUOQM1hb_5I278o61TkroYtylkOgsuRb2Fns06zeAiZgKFe_-OA0LuW/s2159/Everett.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1642" data-original-width="2159" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwbvbhgVAj1ROFQ5R4DJ8LFGGc33avMHPyv0q_PlKua9vsnm418TJbOR2U_MSgyW2BKvInEPIqiDNHvy6RBUG_CooKuNIwOLL0q-BGamo632uHABFfkDJqnefPX23qhEZ9pbWakUOQM1hb_5I278o61TkroYtylkOgsuRb2Fns06zeAiZgKFe_-OA0LuW/s320/Everett.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span><p></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I asked children in grades 1 and 2 what movement means, they said that movement means moving your body, going to live in a different place, cars and trucks, and suddenly "I know! The civil rights movement!" We talked about that kind of movement, when people form a movement to change something that isn't fair.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJOchQujHbtdh9wYdhUoeW2iM-B172Z_gc4NcOxWAxzPtyfsva0ZANUmSMse1yi93VUidSJcjYDhTkdKEGHdKb1Ud9b2jnODsM5SJG4zr5FivdVIAtrZCwYShbiCfT37ZTDqqNTmEmUBDEuQqf_5V5OhDXDVNdouLXmZH6DTyaa5sjUh2ZIFlEpD8D5K-/s3149/IMG_9659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3149" data-original-width="1989" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJJOchQujHbtdh9wYdhUoeW2iM-B172Z_gc4NcOxWAxzPtyfsva0ZANUmSMse1yi93VUidSJcjYDhTkdKEGHdKb1Ud9b2jnODsM5SJG4zr5FivdVIAtrZCwYShbiCfT37ZTDqqNTmEmUBDEuQqf_5V5OhDXDVNdouLXmZH6DTyaa5sjUh2ZIFlEpD8D5K-/w253-h400/IMG_9659.jpg" width="253" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">We brainstormed strategies for drawing movement. Children had ideas like using arrows, lines, or drawing repeated forms to show something moving. Then we had talent shows where one child demonstrated a special move and the rest of us drew them.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Another day I introduced the word gesture. What does gesture mean? Some of the children knew how to use gesture to draw someone's attention (an old preschool tradition), or knew gestures from dance, gymnastics or martial arts. We talked about how gesture in art is about letting the mark show the motion of your arm and hand.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I wonder how movement will show itself in the preschool and kindergarten classrooms?</span></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjoRoB_xQvEUPlBm7GnXPObqfMX2XF1nlx0BVgYPLjYKxduwHZsLvTpUogAtHWpbAXvTOVbG0wm5LyYqArSfgFJdZsPeON2qvndbVLkTJp5Xba3wfBOQU3TnSknLrn8R87PLRrZyUWgdtJuKDpKmjyYZCcaLqxZMrCxhQsAYz8RH-qiC49kYyCKYWTfYL/s4032/gesture.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfjoRoB_xQvEUPlBm7GnXPObqfMX2XF1nlx0BVgYPLjYKxduwHZsLvTpUogAtHWpbAXvTOVbG0wm5LyYqArSfgFJdZsPeON2qvndbVLkTJp5Xba3wfBOQU3TnSknLrn8R87PLRrZyUWgdtJuKDpKmjyYZCcaLqxZMrCxhQsAYz8RH-qiC49kYyCKYWTfYL/s320/gesture.jpg" width="240" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FZH82SHRK4tJgqLe5_4tMaqTpyWDZ82DQlTE-FK6NNp0-9-QkU2-E8g6G5JV37VExP-kQ6qys4j4WvbMepPnlf0cx-gJv9x8nwPy9Kxo9mlefryDnxcKohFv5er5PZhI28ZWq7gFSFO17gqq7UHPCjrIJ2Gc8RSMefdT-ipyAvz7P2dR-HCKPcBT2oAM/s4032/IMG_9715.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FZH82SHRK4tJgqLe5_4tMaqTpyWDZ82DQlTE-FK6NNp0-9-QkU2-E8g6G5JV37VExP-kQ6qys4j4WvbMepPnlf0cx-gJv9x8nwPy9Kxo9mlefryDnxcKohFv5er5PZhI28ZWq7gFSFO17gqq7UHPCjrIJ2Gc8RSMefdT-ipyAvz7P2dR-HCKPcBT2oAM/s320/IMG_9715.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0.6em 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-48386751974382634782023-03-06T12:21:00.001-05:002023-03-06T12:27:36.141-05:00What is Peace to Five year Old Children?<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is what some of the children in the Nook classroom said about peace when I challenged them to make signs that could bring peace to the community. Some of these signs are silly, some earnest. I wonder about how some of the children are grappling with my expectations versus their own wish to play rough or to play through some of the big concepts around peace and it's opposites. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(click on an image to see it bigger)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADPlO358BQSZY0Oigv7o4MYDUYjCLH8T2UG7cAEll6vjnVH7wFxeDF86ydJXrZaY7QKcJ1B7VJFab4WTpA5YsBjuT93xx2NblVRIP7x7yEhjoZeglm9dLgBXKIrkFm4Yw3yImHOB4oScfJhOGwLP7AYCLABTT-oTRJ7f6A0sZBin5oTFi6ohPj7PHZg/s1024/nook%20sigs8.006.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADPlO358BQSZY0Oigv7o4MYDUYjCLH8T2UG7cAEll6vjnVH7wFxeDF86ydJXrZaY7QKcJ1B7VJFab4WTpA5YsBjuT93xx2NblVRIP7x7yEhjoZeglm9dLgBXKIrkFm4Yw3yImHOB4oScfJhOGwLP7AYCLABTT-oTRJ7f6A0sZBin5oTFi6ohPj7PHZg/w640-h480/nook%20sigs8.006.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I picture four and five year old children, newly emerged from infancy and parallel play, looking around and seeing the great world containing both good and bad, people with lots of power and those with very little. They've learned that sometimes there are things they can do to be heard, to get responses, to get what they want. Other times they don't get what they want no matter what strategies they try. That's a lot to figure out! I can see that children are holding two ideas about peace and war at the same time. There is real war and peace, and there are the "war" like games they often play outside. These children have coined the word "fightful" for that kind of play. They want us to see that sometimes playing fight-fully is fun! I see that these ideas are some of the most important to four and five year old children. Children's theories and definitions expressed in their conversations about good and bad, fightful and peaceful are provisional and leave lots of room for dialog and learning. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-319e4965-7fff-ef17-82e2-f5a3ca8033ca"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-999633ba-7fff-17e4-c08c-8479e69a2a01"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-c538e9fc-7fff-94fe-77b3-c0f46fc88835"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-067770be-7fff-7872-fe65-96c3d88c3114"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e8bd12b-7fff-76e5-67e8-2251a8f7ddc9"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-84359783054049509902023-02-27T15:06:00.002-05:002023-02-27T15:06:36.635-05:00Designing Outdoor play space - The Nook<p> Some of the oldest preschool-aged children are making something new in their play yard. They've been digging and moving rocks. There isn't a firm consensus on what the space should be. Taj told me it was sewers for the children to live in like Ninja turtles. Other children talked about it as a "base" or a "house". I'm sure the idea continues to grow and change, and that they call it other things along the way.</p><p>The children in this classroom have thought and talked a lot about play that is "peaceful", and play that is "fightful" (called "Warful" by Ramona below). Some children are clear that they like to play fightfully sometimes. These are games that involve big energy, chasing, and sometimes characters who have swords and blasters. Other children will say they don't like fightful games, but you'll see them having fun playing them on occasion. In discussions these children most always take the side that's against frightfulness. Very few children never want to play this way. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb35KxTUO6jLmINA6GrHabEXkhwtqQe1Mlof3YTddHK5B_eOEZpCNqkHEBD4oh9TXojuAY82zD3KPXk8dWN6csMnaNBCB_QTULKAd-H0lMC1Tt5bTj6m7fBItdmnTCEkMYEWmcl_l7uXxSLj-sUsXvjPgJxY31c3Ykya6njfxNh1ZnOQvOeo04LYlxDg/s4032/IMG_6625.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb35KxTUO6jLmINA6GrHabEXkhwtqQe1Mlof3YTddHK5B_eOEZpCNqkHEBD4oh9TXojuAY82zD3KPXk8dWN6csMnaNBCB_QTULKAd-H0lMC1Tt5bTj6m7fBItdmnTCEkMYEWmcl_l7uXxSLj-sUsXvjPgJxY31c3Ykya6njfxNh1ZnOQvOeo04LYlxDg/s320/IMG_6625.HEIC" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLnI7HUjbdLy4YIHaI5OiZlDf1OsAEdpoxsEfjRzhz1y5w8ebRnHLjIFkAJkNXnugz1TaoYqbC9RAS8_Z-l-nFTR4dpKbnirScIbgx5ECh0FOmisSM4VCdOOg9mEriHBE_l4deRH3vQJ_Dd8fQzgaVCukw20sP6wfYv1odYtJ_iCK6vyamFe69IvZivg/s4032/IMG_6623.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLnI7HUjbdLy4YIHaI5OiZlDf1OsAEdpoxsEfjRzhz1y5w8ebRnHLjIFkAJkNXnugz1TaoYqbC9RAS8_Z-l-nFTR4dpKbnirScIbgx5ECh0FOmisSM4VCdOOg9mEriHBE_l4deRH3vQJ_Dd8fQzgaVCukw20sP6wfYv1odYtJ_iCK6vyamFe69IvZivg/s320/IMG_6623.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQr625lsg2S8ZM8eqlFC-Kj-X8k4FM8jfLtetM8NxhCB2ZrjYHBNlMqq2znUtmuGzy6HfcTJWEVox4sA3RHwpFtXkPUmZhKksOoqCrCciwUnZKrJ0OvMXp88wAq0rXFvcFvv6UCPLZBo0hSAZ_BeKxrh7taqonpGoy5p7JDAkw6zhFfIcrru8h5Ci2Q/s4032/IMG_6624.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQr625lsg2S8ZM8eqlFC-Kj-X8k4FM8jfLtetM8NxhCB2ZrjYHBNlMqq2znUtmuGzy6HfcTJWEVox4sA3RHwpFtXkPUmZhKksOoqCrCciwUnZKrJ0OvMXp88wAq0rXFvcFvv6UCPLZBo0hSAZ_BeKxrh7taqonpGoy5p7JDAkw6zhFfIcrru8h5Ci2Q/w400-h300/IMG_6624.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Play in this new area of the yard started not long ago and involves a lot of digging and piling of rocks and bricks. The children run in and out and shout when they want someone's attention. It's very exciting! </p><p>Wondering what the children's intention might be, Teacher Frances printed out a photograph of the space, and we asked children to draw what they envision.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7Uq1SXcru-78QvgmfMeC53m2wq6iTYfc8d5VZi0Cw50xqxXBJYOG6R4iE34gMflA5mI3uMn2ZZPt6vYOq04wd7kHqPGseUEaVFnJ1r52mdYQvsyGOxGEATP9f6OelsJTPugEDG2f8dHZt-oQods9fd-dbl3974nMzFwioKJ84nip5J7qsmkMO9Qn6g/s1024/Nook%20land%20plans.004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7Uq1SXcru-78QvgmfMeC53m2wq6iTYfc8d5VZi0Cw50xqxXBJYOG6R4iE34gMflA5mI3uMn2ZZPt6vYOq04wd7kHqPGseUEaVFnJ1r52mdYQvsyGOxGEATP9f6OelsJTPugEDG2f8dHZt-oQods9fd-dbl3974nMzFwioKJ84nip5J7qsmkMO9Qn6g/w640-h480/Nook%20land%20plans.004.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoey's plan has an ottoman, table and chairs a garden, and a bed for resting. It also has a wall or fence all the way around it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvhFxoz1hvyqm3CCpkHZKkF3CfhgZFAtNItMAH5gn17dPcnEb0HKwVMYZiu6Xq3EyuEN8C92jeNnaufrQs-4Dxe4mZfXZ5pphirfY5-xINnCjixcRp0YWd1c5KD9jYyTjX4uPZ4mJDyB9XiF6fiqNiPklyJAMbX22Qxy3MCon9p8k83it7Y-Zp_cfWA/s1024/Nook%20land%20plans.003.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvhFxoz1hvyqm3CCpkHZKkF3CfhgZFAtNItMAH5gn17dPcnEb0HKwVMYZiu6Xq3EyuEN8C92jeNnaufrQs-4Dxe4mZfXZ5pphirfY5-xINnCjixcRp0YWd1c5KD9jYyTjX4uPZ4mJDyB9XiF6fiqNiPklyJAMbX22Qxy3MCon9p8k83it7Y-Zp_cfWA/w640-h480/Nook%20land%20plans.003.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div> Ezra's plan has a brick or rock wall and two chairs.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinPsgeANZW3bz82bmNJKih6AeeCAriqrlECDhv-Bi8Mpi1D-aSrZVn8o02fj_DNl03SI8LzOHgCUOZzUlR3z39INFDSrlsJ08JacaNiivvwoWyNsFC9i6FsrqiMaYELhD7hEW7b2P3k6rzYL0FTaRMS4EBlCBk4ukXZQyNOm5jc3BvXyRXjZDpCPXQ1g/s1024/Nook%20land%20plans.002.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinPsgeANZW3bz82bmNJKih6AeeCAriqrlECDhv-Bi8Mpi1D-aSrZVn8o02fj_DNl03SI8LzOHgCUOZzUlR3z39INFDSrlsJ08JacaNiivvwoWyNsFC9i6FsrqiMaYELhD7hEW7b2P3k6rzYL0FTaRMS4EBlCBk4ukXZQyNOm5jc3BvXyRXjZDpCPXQ1g/w640-h480/Nook%20land%20plans.002.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wren included a lot of different levels and places to sit.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCu09---oi3mL8lejDC4OWC5FJxHDQ12MrPbGlM7cP_R9PmRAGZXCfEP4bBinzYCFP9pgWeno0HAXaox1d4J6gGTmsQNGEAZqc7tYO70eAO_VhbQ0hzE2r3nsXJwywHgrtp1_S_nm09nPj3y8pD4KPnX1CpK3L_nGpdGlog2GV0cAGQxT_Iwo8deyYeA/s1024/Nook%20land%20plans.001.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCu09---oi3mL8lejDC4OWC5FJxHDQ12MrPbGlM7cP_R9PmRAGZXCfEP4bBinzYCFP9pgWeno0HAXaox1d4J6gGTmsQNGEAZqc7tYO70eAO_VhbQ0hzE2r3nsXJwywHgrtp1_S_nm09nPj3y8pD4KPnX1CpK3L_nGpdGlog2GV0cAGQxT_Iwo8deyYeA/w640-h480/Nook%20land%20plans.001.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ramona was willing to take the most time telling me about her plan. She wanted it to be an area for the 'fightful' games and a different area for coloring and peaceful games. She wanted to make a table and chairs for comfortable coloring. She said "The war boys play here and no place else."</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #e69138;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #e69138;">As I watch the work unfold, I wonder if it's important to have a settled idea. I assume they're working toward some intersubjectivity about the goal for this play and work. Do you know about intersubjectivity? When a group has intersubjectivity they understand a common goal, can agree on the tasks and tools they need to achieve the goal and share language around the job. I hope the children will achieve agreement about how to use this space, but I can also see the job as making a place- where the making is more important than anything else. That's why there's so much excitement- "we're together!, we're doing a cool thing!" </span></i></p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-11853768449802775102023-01-05T10:31:00.001-05:002023-01-05T10:31:08.714-05:00Why Observational Drawing is Important<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Why do teachers at Sabot encourage the practice of observational drawing? </span><p></p><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBBEnN4cOmJDH5hGv0vB6C1ojw9dMZn89W0Q9xMM8NgIjmYMT99xACJliEefsA5CBODWh1uutO41T1wmaWlACY1O9Y__g_MV0PHF0_XgtGM17m9IjZ6TXvuvbFW3ZNeVjKkWA4xova6E6bb4nlJhH6evoXUuIlwBO65dhTyqaKPvgv8LPBphd7nHABQ/s1085/IMG_5389.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="829" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggBBEnN4cOmJDH5hGv0vB6C1ojw9dMZn89W0Q9xMM8NgIjmYMT99xACJliEefsA5CBODWh1uutO41T1wmaWlACY1O9Y__g_MV0PHF0_XgtGM17m9IjZ6TXvuvbFW3ZNeVjKkWA4xova6E6bb4nlJhH6evoXUuIlwBO65dhTyqaKPvgv8LPBphd7nHABQ/w305-h400/IMG_5389.jpeg" width="305" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">People going down stairs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As social constructivist educators we know that knowledge is created—that is, <span style="font-style: italic;">constructed</span>—when human beings add new information to the understandings we already hold. Therefore it’s important that we be able to communicate ideas to each other. Sometimes verbal explanations are enough, but very often a visual representation helps us really see and hear another person and understand what they’re thinking. So in our classrooms, being able to draw and to interpret other people’s drawings is crucial to learning.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As <span style="font-style: italic;">social</span> beings, we rely on interaction, cooperation, and mutual exchange in order to understand the world; observational drawing is a powerful meaning-making tool both in the cognitive and emotional realm. An important element of this drawing-to-learn work is a commitment to draw as accurately as we can in order to record our observations and to communicate them well to others. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_JMj_6L0o33kxl1RWFVJlifwogxdyPke5JRwpUa9Xe5iusakLOmNS-sJwUBtKOtEtXulCEYfImauDXyfKffrxu1MFxSJuwgBBMnzNnW2kivikWM8ylOd4_ihBS1JnVSewpwdQ7OeFjEHD09VFfZB7IR0z_nBeQWW6LSP3dSlesD69iSh26O0CTJj5Q/s3024/FF78BA1F-AE82-4FF3-9E7B-F3FB6FC20630.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_JMj_6L0o33kxl1RWFVJlifwogxdyPke5JRwpUa9Xe5iusakLOmNS-sJwUBtKOtEtXulCEYfImauDXyfKffrxu1MFxSJuwgBBMnzNnW2kivikWM8ylOd4_ihBS1JnVSewpwdQ7OeFjEHD09VFfZB7IR0z_nBeQWW6LSP3dSlesD69iSh26O0CTJj5Q/s320/FF78BA1F-AE82-4FF3-9E7B-F3FB6FC20630.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another reason teachers encourage drawing is that it allows children to experience mindfulness in practice as teachers help them separate what they see from what they imagine they see. Observational drawing strengthens noticing through close observation and attention to detail. By drawing children connect the hand to the eye through the brain and use multiple executive functioning skills at once such as active working memory, spatial reasoning and flexible thinking.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part of the observational drawing practice at Sabot is being able to show our drawings to the group. Teachers help children learn to participate in constructive and helpful dialog. Sabot students learn how to give useful feedback to each other and to accept that help in turn. This whole process creates a community that can rely on each other, can communicate with each other, and can work together with a trust that new knowledge is being created for the good of the whole group. </span></p></div></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-18534232302876587362022-10-14T11:20:00.004-04:002022-10-14T11:20:46.059-04:00Conflict, Trees and See Saws<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">While listening to the children and looking for a potential project in first grade, a </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">disagreement came up that turned into a project all on its own. First grade</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> teachers Shayla and Salina described to me how older children had a log in a forked tree and they were using it as a seesaw. The first graders found a ripped up note on the ground that said "don't use this, it is hurting the tree." They realized that the seesaw is creating friction that is wearing off the bark of the growing tree. The children took out the log, but when we went out the next day the middle schoolers had put it back!</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The older group very much disagreed about whether the see saw was hurting the tree. It became a big disagreement, and first grade did some research which they wrote and delivered to the middle schoolers about how bark protects the tree. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWmGRULD_uqvQL9aFmN-euj5PhKdjb7gpOixe9VubdFFUmaFkywNeUqTMWMJpzITQazJCLWo8YXTbxBOx9cmwiLdh-gZdjyjtOwKzslY3vHjdKHYXfaSeOUrz65xZtV84ks3C1E9qiXGSov51h0jvmAp3q9xItcEXFf1KEZvUTrR2LyohSQBBOPIPvQ/s3718/IMG_4210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2800" data-original-width="3718" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWmGRULD_uqvQL9aFmN-euj5PhKdjb7gpOixe9VubdFFUmaFkywNeUqTMWMJpzITQazJCLWo8YXTbxBOx9cmwiLdh-gZdjyjtOwKzslY3vHjdKHYXfaSeOUrz65xZtV84ks3C1E9qiXGSov51h0jvmAp3q9xItcEXFf1KEZvUTrR2LyohSQBBOPIPvQ/s320/IMG_4210.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jc_7NHj8qMmTD1cyScx3oudzvnne1AMTx6JUjikD1sXA3-Z6ejPXZyFa1rM9zb_DgzAOqUWXXenEZxl0hbd8O9d_iNl5oK7Nkylnhw_GMAOpnYT6n4l6gTANuBiBf-J7EeHBX76WaTpdzbWG0KsH9Wf4fzsJ_AOeK3ctYe703iCdCRZKKi9soJp4kg/s3494/IMG_4218.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2008" data-original-width="3494" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9jc_7NHj8qMmTD1cyScx3oudzvnne1AMTx6JUjikD1sXA3-Z6ejPXZyFa1rM9zb_DgzAOqUWXXenEZxl0hbd8O9d_iNl5oK7Nkylnhw_GMAOpnYT6n4l6gTANuBiBf-J7EeHBX76WaTpdzbWG0KsH9Wf4fzsJ_AOeK3ctYe703iCdCRZKKi9soJp4kg/s320/IMG_4218.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>"In a really deep forest the tallest tree is the most magical"</i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are so many pieces to this puzzle! A few things that came up in dialog with the first grade children are;</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: inherit;">How to get people to listen to you when you're sure you're right and so do they.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Thinking about the word stubborn</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> and why people sometimes act stubbornly.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: inherit;">The health of trees- do they have feelings?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: inherit;">Can trees be magical?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: inherit;">How to build a see saw.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: inherit;">As the first graders in Shayla and Salina's class continue to observe and research trees, including possible magical qualities, we have also begun to plan to build a see saw that both middle school aged children and 7 year olds can fit on.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBlm7PXtu4lVCJKmrd20qtj0OAnQqAb4nMuCxHU2Siz1IDIXhzJbkZ9QJv2cb4XlWhT2JKbjztKahoAZYeS-XvwdBL_LMgj7KG4qebyMoH6eZHUq6TRwkTmgy95QrpMzVLG0HiS6xNJ7aaydYnJS5ELOgbvz6h9mHXh46QW-accOFDjQr4YrK3w8tBA/s2236/see%20saw%20plan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The triangle needs to be bigger. And also it needs to be centered."</span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><i>Blair "We're trying to make it like the tree that was hurting."</i></span></p><p><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><i>Henderson "This is not going to work. If a giant sixth grader sits on it it's going to break."</i></span></p><p><span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"></span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><i>Addy "It's too low. The sixth graders will be so squatty. It will be so tiny."</i></span></p><p><br /></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-6831374928628953782022-10-10T14:43:00.002-04:002022-10-10T14:43:22.482-04:00Children's Rights<p> November 20th is the anniversary of the UN Convention on Children's rights. This Convention has been ratified by every country except for the US, which has cited concerns about parental rights. I brought a book about rights to Ashlei and Ann's first grade classroom, and this is what the children drew and wrote in response.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lTudR79bnXh1ddnZBjBwlWE7QuAiyGRcMMiLP5gX7wVWSwazUJCZSt7SdNwwGoURmefy5Qyn6Xresl8LV4kS2fBluPDtqaCc-VbVLfegDyd_XXActs2lo9OQxgmCdsLGR9pyq8j3CamOEC5iNrt_QoJZX2kZphQMikraWcvS8ZBZ6S4SZYYOOuClTQ/s1920/Rights%201Ash.001.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9lTudR79bnXh1ddnZBjBwlWE7QuAiyGRcMMiLP5gX7wVWSwazUJCZSt7SdNwwGoURmefy5Qyn6Xresl8LV4kS2fBluPDtqaCc-VbVLfegDyd_XXActs2lo9OQxgmCdsLGR9pyq8j3CamOEC5iNrt_QoJZX2kZphQMikraWcvS8ZBZ6S4SZYYOOuClTQ/w640-h360/Rights%201Ash.001.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I read a book and then asked some children in Shayla and Salena's first grade about children's rights.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9F1FfIZfDqpnj26T4CV_ZRq-1ZD2lIZ9Qs14Y1x7pMQElbselaSAEBT7MKYr2_GVT4JEinD_VnDh_9ccRFPxB1p7TAosmEldhCSk2Tht50B5ZCOekmoWrFjx1SCTLJ4iQ1cW8xnvD6XuNXWxQdkdQJghYxXZ6rXRnWR3D6WGHo9c1_x6uztcKOb5-CQ/s1920/rights%201stS.001.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9F1FfIZfDqpnj26T4CV_ZRq-1ZD2lIZ9Qs14Y1x7pMQElbselaSAEBT7MKYr2_GVT4JEinD_VnDh_9ccRFPxB1p7TAosmEldhCSk2Tht50B5ZCOekmoWrFjx1SCTLJ4iQ1cW8xnvD6XuNXWxQdkdQJghYxXZ6rXRnWR3D6WGHo9c1_x6uztcKOb5-CQ/w640-h360/rights%201stS.001.jpeg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoSY7R3hmHu3pLlVbd4wCINejokKyy7LX2MbX6zLtbscbYz9dCmEEhfI_6D65dCXTaPlofNhrcx92rIQvy8Cv2uayFIUzJrFEz0jOYqFvnUsR1DcInTymfzzpYqZ1Fl_JKeTul-F_a2ljguc4ROnut1O4lxLRLjtolXqLO9iFEX81y5tgOYL_CnAAPZA/s1920/rights%201stS.002.jpeg" style="clear: right; 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What will happen after nine months of thinking about peace in lots of different ways among children from age two through age 14? What will parents contribute to the discussion? Here are a few initial thoughts when I asked the children in second grade "What is peace?"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqiRItKEa8FOrNmA4-0oo5mDkG75fskkfQaSiIYB34zxKRbsDW9LnKVJW-DUxmjAc_G6zy0doye89sBWlQhqb7EJRQBLJtRHwJyY4juBOOHYMWHoqtqlDaVGAOYuWmzhLSSbyrIeEDVxdKtcKHSBAmXa1rES1RVKsXOQ1iIakZCf30lE1yy_d6ujO85A/s1920/2nd%20Peace%209:22.001.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqiRItKEa8FOrNmA4-0oo5mDkG75fskkfQaSiIYB34zxKRbsDW9LnKVJW-DUxmjAc_G6zy0doye89sBWlQhqb7EJRQBLJtRHwJyY4juBOOHYMWHoqtqlDaVGAOYuWmzhLSSbyrIeEDVxdKtcKHSBAmXa1rES1RVKsXOQ1iIakZCf30lE1yy_d6ujO85A/w640-h360/2nd%20Peace%209:22.001.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmP21IQc3xKr0bVJSihX1Gu4QMxousTtEV5NGlddo9TZw2GHxJEEfs2B0HPmvxJgZlJD2I2hEHG3AYFyRtJ4zXQOYQGRqVoqR7iYyeHUlAsSBiUp155h8WScYpYyJTDyGnNd_k4Eq62RyUDf5EQgo7RuPFBymFtuk68vOk4iTkKj1o_foPz5LW8CM-NA/s1920/2nd%20Peace%209:22.003.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmP21IQc3xKr0bVJSihX1Gu4QMxousTtEV5NGlddo9TZw2GHxJEEfs2B0HPmvxJgZlJD2I2hEHG3AYFyRtJ4zXQOYQGRqVoqR7iYyeHUlAsSBiUp155h8WScYpYyJTDyGnNd_k4Eq62RyUDf5EQgo7RuPFBymFtuk68vOk4iTkKj1o_foPz5LW8CM-NA/w640-h360/2nd%20Peace%209:22.003.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eXWEZ5beowhrJBgnCISR3Q077JXChrF0Tx02irvub4Xl4A-u2VKB5BQg3KR_a_ePoPJzN89oRLiE0Su1OYbej7MqaKVzjRxn9ylIao-HOam2Pd1DcTzy-M8RSACmoF8ne3vWpuRQBs-vSono4P6k5P83grNxUYa9fvaZem8l3q4vJTfhs-KXho_vDg/s1920/2nd%20Peace%209:22.002.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_eXWEZ5beowhrJBgnCISR3Q077JXChrF0Tx02irvub4Xl4A-u2VKB5BQg3KR_a_ePoPJzN89oRLiE0Su1OYbej7MqaKVzjRxn9ylIao-HOam2Pd1DcTzy-M8RSACmoF8ne3vWpuRQBs-vSono4P6k5P83grNxUYa9fvaZem8l3q4vJTfhs-KXho_vDg/w640-h360/2nd%20Peace%209:22.002.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3z2alPOp5PcDBDrDjVXsAxOigjV38iwG7_397JaWxBod5dfvAoVy_XhDkhP3JeUmPiNRBl04r7po4ufiTM9ol5EWg0jZ4MTJ0SkIO3gpOfXQEQqrCxKbBh-bW7zXmFAti-Qey8avlXYtcG-hA0U-IndMb0rWAKIvsV9r-xKkzr9xB2KGEejpfS4ceQ/s1920/2nd%20Peace%209:22.004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3z2alPOp5PcDBDrDjVXsAxOigjV38iwG7_397JaWxBod5dfvAoVy_XhDkhP3JeUmPiNRBl04r7po4ufiTM9ol5EWg0jZ4MTJ0SkIO3gpOfXQEQqrCxKbBh-bW7zXmFAti-Qey8avlXYtcG-hA0U-IndMb0rWAKIvsV9r-xKkzr9xB2KGEejpfS4ceQ/w640-h360/2nd%20Peace%209:22.004.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-51042465329448144612021-11-01T11:47:00.006-04:002021-11-01T11:50:53.518-04:00Making a Project: Squirrels and Acorns<p> There is a huge crop of acorns on the preschool playground. After Ender pointed to the big tree and said "that's an acorn machine", I asked children in the Rainbow room how acorns are made. Here are some of their answers. I'd love to hear how you might pursue this idea..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJu4MWYIcB4DaOV29yxCqguCccZacyWRshzMAhzsvPvhdxljYGltDcoIz7Vy47oYi6oFgx2qn3lpiopdZ0qWfI1MebyO-GI4U5D7P6ap5XxHnDkLIF4xElLHW6V-RnFjs-Si9WrUnMqs6j/s1024/Acorn+Theories.006.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJu4MWYIcB4DaOV29yxCqguCccZacyWRshzMAhzsvPvhdxljYGltDcoIz7Vy47oYi6oFgx2qn3lpiopdZ0qWfI1MebyO-GI4U5D7P6ap5XxHnDkLIF4xElLHW6V-RnFjs-Si9WrUnMqs6j/w640-h480/Acorn+Theories.006.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnzCw30RuSOqy5wzHD9xxT-Dbn2qnC4bQwnP4V4IqXny7W6x_SIGH4iPDQAkfeV84jF2gs-iRmmq83PaNlXkH2_lTCfwmRyx8VpgoG-_Hv_qEDdYQ_1YyNp4DiaGW-OmTZIVS5ajxTnnaE/s1024/Acorn+Theories.005.jpeg" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21siG8f4-tr-qEIhF9nmhUtK0Q53WyM3n_l6yPADgYx7b6I5gy88K53sofVHQKv71e8p1FvKFeWRi6k__aUdkJqqcrLF3pFo3lT5-vqBVtcWL44fJwORkNmdGyw8YXPB3xxioGzcuRiS5/s1024/fanciful+squirrels.001.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21siG8f4-tr-qEIhF9nmhUtK0Q53WyM3n_l6yPADgYx7b6I5gy88K53sofVHQKv71e8p1FvKFeWRi6k__aUdkJqqcrLF3pFo3lT5-vqBVtcWL44fJwORkNmdGyw8YXPB3xxioGzcuRiS5/s16000/fanciful+squirrels.001.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-31264522203638348402021-10-12T11:21:00.002-04:002021-10-12T11:21:36.917-04:00An Old Project Becomes New<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some years ago, when the 2021 eighth graders where in fourth grade, we made a project called Sabot Species Snap!. This was a card game where creatures that lived around the school were put on cards and use</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityoXF9ooQoUlRQnq1iIBom82NyrXS39DCpO0JDN70VsNEouajqX8WvnkBiggivQOQKWd6hGDhyphenhyphenF41XM71PfNKorxOa9-_f0HCcMQs2I1waECh59HIOrb_QuEckR1-LkD3p-ELsI4CfS4G/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEityoXF9ooQoUlRQnq1iIBom82NyrXS39DCpO0JDN70VsNEouajqX8WvnkBiggivQOQKWd6hGDhyphenhyphenF41XM71PfNKorxOa9-_f0HCcMQs2I1waECh59HIOrb_QuEckR1-LkD3p-ELsI4CfS4G/" width="308" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The card above was made with drawings from the game.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdgcz5nEqG_i4rDwh0y6i9yIMxJmZg8BSEkdOIXQu0N5PB9WMiAnlm6_VU6n1vHk5zt3jZeHj8ucxra6bbhX211tIlnmURMYaoTXJbR6x19z2HPrtXVUM1bnqNaVDVOw2dlPBebiYqw-4/s2048/SKM_C364e17031509231_0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-7q0f1jPNhXEVXy7g6go0rwQzYZ9tt8FU94MJ95hS3hMsnPATZeKQSnR0RLaTA9JwKfUAHPChKReidXMNhQ0lYHpLrQvs4sD6MR9_T3RJerCUqufynErq8wIGMvokIyX7lbKqOPwFoyD/s2048/SKM_C364e17031509231_0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-7q0f1jPNhXEVXy7g6go0rwQzYZ9tt8FU94MJ95hS3hMsnPATZeKQSnR0RLaTA9JwKfUAHPChKReidXMNhQ0lYHpLrQvs4sD6MR9_T3RJerCUqufynErq8wIGMvokIyX7lbKqOPwFoyD/s320/SKM_C364e17031509231_0011.jpg" width="247" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLGG5J9khaQqx8RfloyVmW2rKIj6s-tAq9zscRU3ijO7B1X1qbDZS9cf0qaWCrDKaRdxnge1IoUFwYLbsWnFCQeNyji1aui5eL7oqYRNGlgYHNLpWt50b2-aq7M3CqQhnwedBS5_WYikc/s2048/SKM_C364e17031509231_0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkLGG5J9khaQqx8RfloyVmW2rKIj6s-tAq9zscRU3ijO7B1X1qbDZS9cf0qaWCrDKaRdxnge1IoUFwYLbsWnFCQeNyji1aui5eL7oqYRNGlgYHNLpWt50b2-aq7M3CqQhnwedBS5_WYikc/s320/SKM_C364e17031509231_0021.jpg" width="247" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdgcz5nEqG_i4rDwh0y6i9yIMxJmZg8BSEkdOIXQu0N5PB9WMiAnlm6_VU6n1vHk5zt3jZeHj8ucxra6bbhX211tIlnmURMYaoTXJbR6x19z2HPrtXVUM1bnqNaVDVOw2dlPBebiYqw-4/s320/SKM_C364e17031509231_0006.jpg" width="247" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG_JvaZsfGcsWRYa3KkK6X6b6yNOBe1qB9e_onW5-OBjqQmXGEyfyWF58oMa9Lhl4sxNNhGXtfVHkBprsAqk3gL8rcIogMs_T0L0NnqlZeH4BaBbfrYoxRlKI2Njk9hWyH0MhNRTrLSmL/s612/snapcardback.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG_JvaZsfGcsWRYa3KkK6X6b6yNOBe1qB9e_onW5-OBjqQmXGEyfyWF58oMa9Lhl4sxNNhGXtfVHkBprsAqk3gL8rcIogMs_T0L0NnqlZeH4BaBbfrYoxRlKI2Njk9hWyH0MhNRTrLSmL/s320/snapcardback.jpg" width="207" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG_JvaZsfGcsWRYa3KkK6X6b6yNOBe1qB9e_onW5-OBjqQmXGEyfyWF58oMa9Lhl4sxNNhGXtfVHkBprsAqk3gL8rcIogMs_T0L0NnqlZeH4BaBbfrYoxRlKI2Njk9hWyH0MhNRTrLSmL/s612/snapcardback.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sara Jo and Vanessa's class has been collecting bug sightings and finding all kinds of leaves, creatures and trees. I showed them the card game called Sabot Species Snap. This game was made when the eighth graders who graduated in 2021 were in 4th grade. The game has cards, each with a picture of a species the fourth graders found living at Sabot. They assessed the defensive and dangerous attributes of each species and then ranked them.</span></p><p></p><br />The first grade children looked at the game cards and noticed some species they founds, but also some they've been finding that weren't on any cards. So they drew some more species they'd seen on campus. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7xZHPoXlGlgqeQ41ZCMWpPGqWXx19TYKWjHpBfFnSfUfJ-0lE-rd3XxpuuykSx3N5YfNK8HOteIRmAU5DS-T4QSEgJCzwwbBT4qxLHUUuaXPCI6X6WjgSoaL2ZDkG0oy9Ksm-UNU3AqP/s2048/1783_001.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1583" data-original-width="2048" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7xZHPoXlGlgqeQ41ZCMWpPGqWXx19TYKWjHpBfFnSfUfJ-0lE-rd3XxpuuykSx3N5YfNK8HOteIRmAU5DS-T4QSEgJCzwwbBT4qxLHUUuaXPCI6X6WjgSoaL2ZDkG0oy9Ksm-UNU3AqP/s320/1783_001.jpeg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf616E3VjkmAvANiHDVYGq35NSa0KU1mCQPxmwygTA8hnn6DmnybS7Q9_yN8jDnrlkS56lkbcvmmqwE_YCFwImjuzDUdv9KP5T-IgcOfPe8oyRjlnNemqeDzmqNU71FGSF5fUmO59ktJfp/s1309/1783_002.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1309" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf616E3VjkmAvANiHDVYGq35NSa0KU1mCQPxmwygTA8hnn6DmnybS7Q9_yN8jDnrlkS56lkbcvmmqwE_YCFwImjuzDUdv9KP5T-IgcOfPe8oyRjlnNemqeDzmqNU71FGSF5fUmO59ktJfp/w200-h163/1783_002.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkqxk4dbbP6vjrauEX_lbfisDJr7gnxK5htjDFfH4rUjzdp96XSn55JHaXIVI1miYa4XEUof1c4LjxFV2oECAABM3Ro1H-8Z05YP6-Ucv-kNudgakRmNmEZOUpTItvRob9lgJuYNSHbCmi/s2048/1783_003.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkqxk4dbbP6vjrauEX_lbfisDJr7gnxK5htjDFfH4rUjzdp96XSn55JHaXIVI1miYa4XEUof1c4LjxFV2oECAABM3Ro1H-8Z05YP6-Ucv-kNudgakRmNmEZOUpTItvRob9lgJuYNSHbCmi/s320/1783_003.jpeg" width="247" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFf-tG3gCkGIbIRiUszxtWC7ZuFJ65evv3hGYZGjapBUrwN1PNeYdk9NR_JAg3uh-YafqSrPiGpOIFK8VfD8OfWHVnOdx7vSAK1WIY_-M1vu1_uAppWcg4jddK_40uYV2V4dm03PzkcA-/s2048/1783_004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFf-tG3gCkGIbIRiUszxtWC7ZuFJ65evv3hGYZGjapBUrwN1PNeYdk9NR_JAg3uh-YafqSrPiGpOIFK8VfD8OfWHVnOdx7vSAK1WIY_-M1vu1_uAppWcg4jddK_40uYV2V4dm03PzkcA-/s320/1783_004.jpeg" width="247" /></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The children had to use reason to decide who would be victorious. Sometimes the most poisonous or biggest creature won, but some tiny species surprised us by defeating everyone! If you look carefully at some of the card sets, you can see Xs for defeats, and checks for victors.</div></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOwmvULvwC_3s9aYNvkIAuzxozf8AVSacLs4EPzV40oGQiF9781urwLyH9rNbGXzCiZr7bSTty7u_VF3QGIWkKAWNx98m2jEkuvvabwWNtLg-ZrR4GLNjU-SyQzu4h-lKjs7Zi_E0N8CK/s2048/1783_005.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1583" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOwmvULvwC_3s9aYNvkIAuzxozf8AVSacLs4EPzV40oGQiF9781urwLyH9rNbGXzCiZr7bSTty7u_VF3QGIWkKAWNx98m2jEkuvvabwWNtLg-ZrR4GLNjU-SyQzu4h-lKjs7Zi_E0N8CK/s320/1783_005.jpeg" width="247" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMPN2IJbGuKSzCgBkG-QyO2SSvd31EbuOQB2WYYJhzQ14A_Wy_OAs_5V-UHCLFKdfrkGmYwbT-6qn1ju11oQcf0mFKpMemu76lKCzevRyQ71C3WIrxd0DJVbj-kh9kZzCHNPg3LNKhPkp/s2048/1783_006.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Like epigenetics, another scientific concept that seems pulled from the world of fairytales and magic, imaginal cells work as a metaphor for many things I love to ponder. Imaginal cells, as far as I understand them, are cells in a caterpillar or pupae that hold the information of the butterfly that will eventually emerge from the cocoon. They group together in 'imaginal discs' after the caterpillar has dissolved itself into goo, and then reform as wings or antenna or eyes. Look it up here <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">metamorphosis-explainer</a><br /><br />The idea of imaginal cells, in my mind, are a great metaphor for project work. It's often hard to explain the tension between children's choice and teacher's intervention when explaining this way of working with the youngest people. Often adults can understand one or the other. They can either see how teachers decide what children will do and lead them though activity toward learning, like they saw when they were little and in school. Or they can picture that children have free choice in which case, the reason for an adult in the picture is mostly to stop accidents and arguments. To me, both the children's ideas and the teachers' are like imaginal cells. Here we are, me with my pedagogical documentation, my store of questions and big, universal ideas, my extra pockets filled with media and materials. And here are the children, with their preferences and passions, their noticing and wonderings. The trajectory of the project and the scope of our eventual learning lie rather dormant as the project gets underway, but they are there. As we explore and research together, the imaginal cellss of our ideas, dialog and intersubjectivity find purchase and begin to grow into a third thing- the project. Anyway, that's how it seems to me.<p><br /></p><p>Here are the seeds of a project that's happening on the playground with the children and teachers in the rainbow room;</p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjM7ur1UIXvQEKCN0YjmCNNpZX0Ah1TV34xSnuR9nB0R2Hxl0W6gnnPmWUC05hXhdeNI09V5N2hfhIR7QW64j4_Cx_6pQOje7KLGvSC_i7uAc-osxAcybPyWzt5UPaBVSLd-wrtcqQ7_pX/s2048/IMG_20210927_100005.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjM7ur1UIXvQEKCN0YjmCNNpZX0Ah1TV34xSnuR9nB0R2Hxl0W6gnnPmWUC05hXhdeNI09V5N2hfhIR7QW64j4_Cx_6pQOje7KLGvSC_i7uAc-osxAcybPyWzt5UPaBVSLd-wrtcqQ7_pX/s320/IMG_20210927_100005.jpg" width="240" /></a> Children noticed two squirrels playing ing their shared space on the playground. Teacher Honey documented and brought them a books about squirrels. 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I can envision a project that becomes about meeting squirrels with empathy and learning more of what they see and care about. The children have named 2 squirrels and I wonder, do squirrels need human names? Do they like them? But so far the children are assuming the squirrels want people things like decorations and masks. I guess we'll see what emerges..</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-64362757535070738562020-09-25T10:43:00.001-04:002020-09-25T10:43:38.813-04:00Generations<p> The Umbrella project at Sabot for 2020-2021 is Generations. The UNESCO Futures of Education initiative points to a need for science education mixed with philosophy in order to “harness customs and knowledge for planetary survival”. This is an entreaty to look at habits and heritage that grew in our particular landscape in order to inform the future. This means learning about our own family heritage but also those of our neighbors. It means learning to acknowledge the original stewards of the land we live on, and learning to care for the land the way the first peoples did. </p><p>What traditions allowed your ancestors to live justly in the earth? How did the ways people made decisions come through the generations down to our technological age? Were democratic traditions like family or town meetings important? What voices were unheard in these processes?</p><p>What traditional crafts and practices helped people live sustainably on this land? Which of those traditions survives still? In your house do you have quilts, handmade clothing or furniture? Do you still save the fall harvest through canning or freezing? Do you think about Michael Pollan’s advice not to eat anything that your grandmother wouldn’t recognize?</p><p>Check out more about the umbrella project proposal here:
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A long time ago when a kindergarten (now 5th grade) class was writing letters to the Mayor about how to make Richmond more friendly to children, Evan wrote; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This "children can work with ideas" idea has never been more important now that we are all in our places and can't go to school. We all need to wonder about things, to see things out our windows that make us say "Wow!" and to process our theories about the puzzles and problems we're all facing right now. Children's curiosity and imagination grows in relationship with materials. While gathering, holding looking at things, stories grow in children's minds. How can we support wonder, hypothesizing and experimentation at this, as they say, "</span>unprecedented<span style="font-family: inherit;"> time"? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Creating a mini-studio is one thing we can do. </span></div>
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A mini-studio has to have enough for children to use, but not so much that it's overwhelming. When you find the right balance of enough things but not too much, a mini-studio can help sustain a maker's attention for a long time while staying relatively organized for the next exploration. At grown-ups and children can work together to set up a mini studio on a shelf, in containers on the floor, or on a table. Look for drawing and writing implements. Find paintbrushes or use would objects with food coloring or natural materials, smushed up. Search around for containers and look in your drawers cubbies for materials that are good for making things. Think about a material and ask- 'is it transformable?'<br />
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Some things are transformable with power tools or toxic glue but maybe you don't want to go that far in your house. A simple pair of good children's scissors (I like fiskers brand because they really cut), white glue, a hand powered drill and some toothpicks or dowels, and a hammer and small nails or brads can go a long way into making materials from the recycle bin transform into other things. We use them in the studio with children from 21/2 on up.<br />
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I think it's important to think of the Earth when making things. I discourage hot glue and duct tape which are nothing but plastic. Learning to wait for glue to dry is an excellent exercise in mindfulness! I try to think about the end result of each piece and consider if it's going to end up in the trash (beads taped to paper, for instance). If it is, I try to move toward loose parts, which are a beautiful way to make something, appreciate it for a while, and then re-sort the pieces back into the studio.<br />
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I see that families are stressed, parents are juggling work, family and other worries and might not want to spend time on long projects together. I really believe that a little investment of time in setting up a mini-studio will pay off in some sustained engagement for the makers at your house. <br />
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The Hundred Languages of Children is a poem that has become a philosophy that says people communicate in many ways, not just the 2 or 3 usually honored by schools. It's important for young people to have the opportunity to see which languages they like to communicate in. I've seen that the youngest children can say things in visual and movement languages before they can write or even have a lot of verbal language. You can try lots of languages in your life but will probably get good at only a few, like drawing, building, music or movement. </div>
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See my album here for ideas on what to put in a mini-studio <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/JYLPA9bEG7Ln3xSY7">Home Mini-Studio</a><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">*The children worked on what they called The Free Kid's Studio for the rest of their kindergarten year and on into first grade. Touring their studio through the city was one of the best experiences I've had as a teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Juno's Mama "Juno built a castle themed parade float out of items in our junk drawer. She calls it the "Kidzy Tutu!"<br /><br />Me 'I would like to see a parade right now!'<br /><br />"Anna, Juno says "Okay! That's fine! It can be an alone parade if you want."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During online faculty meetings last week I heard that online circles, story time and dance parties are very popular with families, garnering tons of participation. I wonder what it is about these that are so popular? I imagine connecting, seeing faces of classmates and hearing voices is a big part of it. As a resource teacher I don't have the same access to a class group as the teachers do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thinking about myself participating that way I think 'how can I do something like that that isn't me demonstrating, making an example or doing a step-by-step project?' My fellow atelieristas are having an equally hard time figuring this out. Our whole mission is to avoid traditional art teaching and make room for listening and materials exploration. So, what now? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Each time I try to make a video it turns into something I don't want to do. I'm grateful that the open ended provocations I've been sending are getting participation from a couple of families and some preschool teachers, but I wish I could be more helpful. Obviously they aren't hitting the right note. Should I do Mo Willems drawing workshops? I really, really don't want to do that, and besides there are a thousand things like that available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I want to do is offer something that children can think about for a long time. Something that parents of younger children can show to them, maybe sit with them while they get started, but then be able to step back. Maybe they have to go on a bit of a hunt for materials or inspiration. I envision younger children working on their own for a while before calling for some help in getting pictures online for us all to see (Sabot uses google albums). Older children could get the emails themselves and spend time inventing and making on their own. In the end I hope for a bit of wondering and noticing in discussion with whoever takes part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I wish would happen? This! Here is a response from an invitation to think about spring:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ezra says "I made a Potion of Secrets with spring and also winter ingredients I found. First, I gathered up the holly berries. Second I gathered up those purple flowers. Third I gathered that fungus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yeah, they can use it but it's very rare that they do. It's because it's too powerful for most people. And well you asked what it does. It tells you all of the secrets of the world. Its whispering now but too quiet for anyone to hear. How they hear it is that when they drink the potion only to them it sounds louder. Much, much louder. Louder than a lion's roar."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How will reflective teacher-researchers eventually document this time? Will it be about technology or will it be about children's theories and growing understandings? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's hard to hear children's theories mediated through all of the layers that it takes to communicate with them by computer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are a ton of photos of children in front of screens on instagram right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are a ton of schools offering webinars and workshops for teachers to help us all master online teaching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm really missing holding a child's drawing, having a dialog with them about it.</span><br />
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One of the things I'm really struggling with is the glut of edutainment and crafts activities that are everywhere right now. We've been dealing with the 'Pinterest-ification' of the "Reggio Approach" for a while now. Connected learning and online school has brought just a crush of new tips, tricks and activities for families to do with their children.<br />
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My instagram is filled with suggestions, activities and quotes about what parents should do. I find it overwhelming, and my children are grown! I imagine if I had younger children at home I would be both feeling guilty and avoiding social media for a good part of the day.<br />
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Many of the activities sound fun, and a few reach deeper into the realm of real learning. Others are banal and silly. I like a good craft when I want one, but I work hard to try to find the deeper stuff that's really worthy of the children I know. I think we owe it to children to ask really good questions and then listen for their answers. The crafty projects are probably easier for many families to choose right now. It's hard to find a moment to think amidst all the things that require us to just respond, to just act, to do something.<br />
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So that brings my to what I'm puzzling over- should I add my voice to the crowd, should send anything out at all? If I do, how can I send something that's high quality yet fun enough to attract families' interest? My provocations were getting a lot of participation the first week school was out. Now it's hardly any. Here's the type of thing I've been sending;<br />
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I feel good about this provocation. Even if I'm not getting a ton of response, I think I can hold my head up in adding it to the conversation. At work I often think about Dewey's idea of educational experiences, and how he said that teachers can give experiences that aren't educational if they're not careful. His two main points for good educative experiences were that they must have continuity and interaction. I think of this criteria a lot. With digital teaching, we may have lost both of those things. Interaction has definitely taken on new meaning when it occurs via a screen. Now it seems more important than ever for teachers to think about and offer "educative" experiences for families to choose.*<br />
I think this is an example of a child thinking deeply, referencing previous knowledge in a new situation, and making her understanding visible. Tell me what you think?<br />
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When I look at this response to the provocation, I see a lot.<br />
Here is what this photo and description reveals to me;<br />
I think Sabina thought about what she knew about time. One thing she knew was that clocks have to do with time. 'What about clocks? I'm going to put some marks here like clocks have, but those don't seem to measure the time, they seem to show for sections of the clock face. There is more to clocks- they have a thing that is sequential, that adds a bit for each bit of time that goes by. I'll call that bit a 'tick'. What does a tick mean? A tick is a symbol for a day, and not just that! A tick is a day that I miss my friends! I'll add one tick for each time that happens. I've probably missed them a bunch of days already, so I'm gonna fill some ticks in to show that'.<br />
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This of course, is my own interpretation. the child may say something else, but in a reflective practice of teaching and from my kitchen table, all I have to go on is my point of view.<br />
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-83801033838809076732020-04-03T12:06:00.000-04:002020-04-03T15:32:13.697-04:00Digital Teaching, Connected Learning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What puzzles has this new digital world of teaching brought up for you? For me a big one is participation. There is a ton of content with seemingly every company, museum and school offering activities for children right now. How can I compete with that? Should I even try? I don't even think digital preschool is proper, but at the same time I'd like to stay connected to the children I know. What about for the older children I worked with? I would like to offer some really solid learning activities that bring play and wonder to children, but I don't want to intrude or cause stress for families with too much communication, either.<br />
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Another problem is how the teachers are now teaching with forms of software that create little classroom silos. I find myself unsure of how to get in there or what to do. I've been invited to drop in here and there, but I don't think that offers anything to the group other than one more digital voice in the cacophony.<br />
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More puzzles with connected learning online crop up as time goes by. I find myself at loose ends in responding to children in this connected learning world. In the classroom I have direct access to all of the forms of visual communication children use. I can see their work, snap a photo or make a scan. This allows me to look deeply and notice marks, forms or see the 'knotty problems' that allow me to ask questions. With online school I often see a photo of a child making something or a video of someone explaining a drawing or construction. I want to write and ask for photos or scans of just the drawings or buildings along with the children in action. I want this so I can get a good look and form a better response, but I'm so aware of the risk overwhelming families with email right now.<br />
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-33354697562243211882020-03-29T11:25:00.000-04:002020-03-29T16:02:17.573-04:00Reflecting and Responding Online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thinking further about "connected learning", as they're calling it at the school where I work, I've come to the puzzle of feedback. In person, I try to respond to children's work in ways that move things forward. I'm always looking to encourage children continuing with ideas and going deeper. I've practiced and practiced listening to myself to see if my responses shut down inquiry or urge it on. I've learned to ask open ended questions, to not press my assumptions on children and to look for opportunities to guide children to think about their thinking and the learning strategies they used to do whatever it is they're showing me. I believe that people should own their own learning, so I've tried hard to follow Alfie Kohn's advice to stop framing reactions to children's work as praise. (See more <a href="https://www.alfiekohn.org/">here</a>)</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Suddenly this week I realize that with all that families are dealing with, I'm just grateful that anyone is responding to the provocations I'm sending out at all! Suddenly I'm giving out hearts and 'wow!'s like mad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This puzzle isn't just about framing feedback, it also has to do with how to create longer term, sequential inquiry in an online format. So far everything is looking pretty short term, if not instant. All the years I spent trying to get away from make-and-take art projects, and here they are again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's kind of an exciting challenge, to figure out something in a completely new context. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this yet. I'd love to think with others about it. Is anybody out there?</span><br />
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-90729612633305473022020-03-26T20:15:00.002-04:002020-03-27T16:19:50.108-04:00School Without School<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Engagement is the word my co-teachers and I use for learning that is absorbing, deep and challenging. Children build new understandings over time as they encounter new experiences and information, so creating connected experiences that slowly unspool and deepen thinking is important. In person I plan for </span>roadblocks<span style="font-family: inherit;"> like realizing we don't have a certain material. Roadblocks help slow down the process, creating a context for re-thinking and further planning. I try to create situations where wonder and delight </span>exist along with inquiry. <span style="font-family: inherit;">How can we create engagement like that with a computer? Games do that but I'm not sure it's the kind of engagement I'm after, nor is it appropriate for the younger children at school. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We hope to rise above “edutainment” but at the same time have to capture families' attention. This is the puzzle I'm working on. I'd love to hear what you think in the comments.</span></div>
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-68326588885537853882020-01-17T15:03:00.001-05:002020-01-17T15:03:33.902-05:00Young Children in the Studio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sabot has moved to include a younger group of children who start at age two. Because of licensing rules children age two through two and a half present a unique challenge- they aren't allowed in the building where the studio is. So like the elementary school, I visit their classrooms and mini-studios. Recently as some of the youngest children have grown, a group has been able to visit the studio. These initial visits have been about exploring the space and the many materials available.</div>
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Children this age, new to expressive language, develop a strong collective intuition based on non-verbal communication. Listening to them involves so much more than hearing. I relish the opportunity to engage with these young children. I learn so much from them. For instance in visiting the Nook and Nest classrooms and in dialog with their teachers I learned of the interest in bugs, especially roly-polies. So I had to research "polies" (as the children call them) and learn how they live and grow, how to keep them over night, and how to let them go again. More importantly the children's interest caused me to think about the difference between empathy and compassion and how each grows when human beings connect to other species. </div>
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-19790177904788555092020-01-10T09:43:00.001-05:002020-01-10T09:43:40.923-05:00Being Reggio redux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A co-teacher sent me this blog post <a href="https://debikeytehartland.me/2019/02/18/a-hundred-languages-for-describing-what-is-the-reggio-approach/">100-languages-describing-the-reggio-approach</a> as a prompt to re-think our relationship with (and what we call) the Reggio Approach. She reminded me that I had written about this issue before. Since I'm suffering from terrible writer's block I thought I'd repost a couple of blogs I wrote on the subject. I'd love to hear your thoughts!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Here is one of the posts; <a href="https://atelierista-anna.blogspot.com/2016/01/being-reggio.html">atelierista-being-reggio</a> which is copied below. The comments on these are also worth reading, so click the links if you wish to see those. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>"<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Have you noticed that there are a ton of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">P</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">interest and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">F</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">acebook posts about 'doing Reggio' these days? In one way it's great that so many people are looking for inspiration, but I worry that the exquisite praxis we can see in the infant toddler centers and preschools in Reggio Emilia a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">re</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> being misinterpreted. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Sometimes in talks educators from Reggio remind us to "look beyond the furniture", and I think that's good advice. At its root, the Reggio Emilia approach is a big old Ikea basket full of educational theory put into practice- put into beautiful, well considered and co-constructed practice, with lots of listening and the ethics that come from a deep respect for humankind backing it up. To me, the reason it's so worth looking to Reggio is that all of the beautiful work is carefully thought out and negotiated and presented so that it never, ever betrays the children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "josefin slab";">Don't the practices and environments in all the beautiful photos of activities, tabletops and shelves lose their meaning if not accompanied by the careful thoughtfulness described in The Hundred Languages of Children? It seems to me that it's really all about ideas and relationships, rather than wood and wicker, fabric strips and bubble wrap. And no matter how many times I've arranged the materials in jars of rainbow colors, I know that they'll either stay up on the shelf in pristine sortedness, or get dumped out and mixed up, because that's what people do when they are looking for four matching bottle cap wheels for a cardboard batmobile.</span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJSI7DA7ric/VGAIuRDAgBI/AAAAAAACJ-0/OsSJ32XEM8E/s1600/IMG_6026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #729c0b; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: "josefin slab"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lJSI7DA7ric/VGAIuRDAgBI/AAAAAAACJ-0/OsSJ32XEM8E/s320/IMG_6026.JPG" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">How do you look for meaning in a learning experience?<br />I try to look for a big idea that can connect across time and subject area. Dewey's ideas about educative experiences (which connect) and mis-educative experiences (which are without context) can really help me. A mis-educative experience is one that doesn't connect the learner to the wider world. This lesson or experience might have some benefit for children (like practice with fine motor skills), might be "agreeable or exciting in itself" but doesn't lead to "richer experience in the future" (Dewey's words). By tying school experiences to relationships and big, universal ideas, the teachers in Reggio Emilia avoid banal, stifling mis-education. And so can all of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of Sabot staffers went to Calgary for a conference, and came back talking about what and who they had heard, including speaker Harold Gothson. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the book <u>Childhoods; a Handbook</u>, part of which is available as a google book, Gothson has a chapter called <u>'Appropriating Reggio Emilia; from Cults to Cultural Constructions'</u>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Reflecting on being influenced by the Reggio Approach, he asks the question "What happens with ideas and narrating of experiences when they travel from one context to another? What happens with the idea, and what happens with the receiving context?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The narrating of experiences -the story -changes with the context. I can't really know what it was like in Calgary, but I can hear the stories they will tell me about it and form my own image. In this way I can learn from their experience. In thinking about the Reggio approach, or even old Sabot preschool, I can listen to the stories (even the ones I tell myself), and apply what I get from them to my new context. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gothson writes that he views Reggio through his Swedish eyeglasses, just as I view everything through my metaphorical eyeglasses, and so do you.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Gothson goes on to talk about looking for new points of view in order to challenge your own established ones. He talks about the benefits to educators of challenging personal perspectives by looking at other schools and other ways of doing things. He writes that Reggio educators look for disturbances, seeking out "contexts that make them uncomfortable and force them to reconstruct and develop their ideas... in the ongoing effort to find new confusing and provoking encounters to make it possible to create resistance against the taken for granted."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not sure about the translation here, but the way this is worded does capture something about disequilibrium, the feeling people get before we understand something new. It does feel uncomfortable, confusing and provoking sometimes. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We have to understand that ideas must change with the context and that the place it is to be taken to will also change. So that's why there is no Reggio Emilia 'program' or 'method' that can be implemented anywhere. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Gothson writes "all narrations are built on interpretation, choices and interests.. and invite a complex and contradictory reality that surrounds every decision of action and thinking in general." . </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Does that mean we take what we want from our inspirations, or that we take what we need? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Either way, it implies that we must give careful consideration when reconceptualizing an idea in a new context, resisting "superficiality and rigidity".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This year, having moved the school across the river into a new building, the preschool staff is finding out what parts of our long story still work in the new context. I really like experiences that cause me to question my habits, provide 'resistance against the taken for granted" and make me think critically about my point of view, but the feeling of starting all over again from scratch is very unsettling. Luckily there is a group that can work together to represent this old story and create the new one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">While reflecting here, I started to think about truth. If what we know is just our version of a narrative, can there be such thing as truth? Gothson writes that there is no "Reggio Emilia", just our interpretations of it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It turns out that there is a social constructivist theory of truth, that truth is constructed by social processes and is affected by context (according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth#Constructivist_theory">wikipedia.org</a>), which I never thought about until now, but which seems about right to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For me it comes down to a commitment to the value and values of children. H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ow to make that visible</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in our community and culture is what brings me back to the inspiring ideas from the schools of Reggio Emilia again and again. </span></span><br />
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Anna Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10020564718454754566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233983995495203290.post-9542469194035929982019-11-25T14:19:00.001-05:002019-11-25T14:19:48.520-05:00Magic Group<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first grade children are interested in weather. They are designing some experiments to see if they can make storms happen. Their first try didn't produce any storms so they decided to try again with some different materials. The other day they sent me this list of things that they would need for their second round of experiments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I showed a group of preschoolers this note and asked if they had any ideas of how I</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> could I make fog?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Juno "Dust".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aston "Yeah, from vacuum cleaners".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aston "You have to cut out some red paper and then cut out some orange paper and put it in the middle of the red paper".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Juno "Mother Nature".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aston "You could get a glass cup and then you trap some wind".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jace "Yeah". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do I have to go outside?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jace "No. Inside, from the heater".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jace "Or you could bring a fan to make wind. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s wind outside because sometimes it’s cold out there".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where can I find wind for the first graders? Where is the windiest place?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aston "You should go to golf because there’s pretty much wind in my hair. And I’m like 'that’s too cold'!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "I’m taller on my tippee toes".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "I’m taller than my.. on my tippee toes".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "We’re both.. we’re both taller than you, C."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna What does that mean?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "You are small age of three and a half".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "I’m three and a half".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "But why aren’t you big, C"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">C "Because I ate too, I ate lot of food and a lot of food and a lot of food and I growed and growed and growed"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "I can run like three miles away"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B " growed and growed and growed and growed and growed and grower and growed and growed"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna But C didn’t grow quite as much yet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">C "I did"!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna He’s noticing that he is a bit taller than you. You’re about this tall, and he’s a bit taller, even though you’re both three and a half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "Well I’m taller on my tippee toes". (leans to compare height)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "I’m taller on my tippee-toes. (Leans against yard stick). Let’s see if he’s taller than this". (yardstick). "Nope. This is taller than you, that means I’m bigger".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A "I’m taller, and I can walk like this". (walks on side of feet, B and C follow).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna Looks like he can do that too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "My Mom said I’m bigger, and I can walk like this". (walks with yardstick tapping on floor)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna But he’s t<span style="font-family: inherit;">hree and a half too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "Then why are you not bigger than me"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">C "I am".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna "He’s big, because he’s three and a half. But you’re a bit taller".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B "Well let’s see if you’re taller than this". (Holds yardstick up to C).</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anna Hmm. He’s the same size as that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The children moved on to play happily, but the conversation stayed with me. No one seemed upset or angry during this conversation, but I could hear potentially hurtful words on behalf of the child with the smaller body. I </span>recognize<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the processing of ideas about size, time and age here and I know that needs to happen. Part of it is the conflation of the word 'big' with the words 'tall' and 'older/younger'. That happens often in preschool and has for my whole career. That's why I tried to unpack the words 'big' and 'tall' with the children. </span><br />
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There seems to be a drift toward conformity in this dialog, as well as some questions about who holds power over others. Do we all have to be the same size? Do older people get to dominate younger ones? Do conversations like this, when not mediated, help cement ideas that some people are better than others because of how our bodies look. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea that superficial factors indicate superiority is such a powerful one in our culture. The roots of stereotypes and </span>prejudices begin in very early childhood. How lucky am I, that I can be here to unpack some of this language!<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Being an early childhood educator means I hear children </span>testing theories and <span style="font-family: inherit;">processing big ideas and I don't judge it as good or bad- it's just what people do to gain new understandings. It occurs to me writing this that I view it as a </span>privilege<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to be able to be close to dialog like this. I would welcome the same level of listening to my words that I can give to children. I wonder what language I use that perpetuates the idea that bigger is better, older is better? I'm an adult who tries hard not to dominate over children, but I bet there are things I say and do that give the message that might makes right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Words matter. As a teacher I can help children hear words and consider their implications when they evoke stereotypes and inequity. <span style="background-color: white;"> I feel so lucky that these children speak freely with me and allow me the possibility to reflect on my reaction. </span>I also feel that there's something here- starting my own word choices- that I can help change. </span><br />
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