Today we listened to stories through music as MrRandy played his guitar and sung. We watched music in motion on YouTube as dancers told a story through music. I later […]
Storytelling Through Clay
Today we took the stories the children “ wrote” yesterday and tried making a representation from clay ( actually playdoh). I love the way we looked at the books and […]
When you are a storyteller you can be an author too ! Today I dictated stories the children wrote and then they illustrated the pages.
When you give children opportunities to practice writing and drawing for fun this happened organically. Today was International Button Day. I’m sure you’ve caught on by now. I use days […]
Show and Tell
To this day I I am not completely back when they are put in front of an audience. There are just some personalities that are not comfortable talking in front […]
Heggerty Update
We are entering week 13 in our phonemic awareness program. It’s amazing to me how much the children attending their second year have picked up on being able to isolate […]
Trip trap trip trap
Today we enjoyed more storytelling. In family time I told the story of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” We watched the story on you tube. It had a different twist. […]
Storytelling
Today we talked about storytelling. Storytelling can happen from a book or from our imagination or our memory. At breakfast the littles were already telling stories. It happens so naturally. […]
Pumpkin Jack
We finally carved our pumpkin. In child led programs many times holiday exploration comes AFTER the actual holiday – because that is when they are talking about it and interested. […]
Clean it out
Today I cleaned out the rest of that Halloween bin. Remember the activity sheet books I told you I just couldn’t throw away ? There was also a weekly reader […]
Switching Gears
Of course we switched gears today to Thanksgiving. We did the traditional handprint turkey. We talked a lot about thanksgiving and what that means. It led to a lot of […]