Today we flipped the switch a little. We are accustomed to drawing our self portraits with black markers on white paper. Today we examined our faces in a mirror again […]

Think about what all facial expressions tell us. There’s a lot of communicating goes on by using our faces. Today’s focus is not intended to address emotional development we do […]

In today’s exploration we took a picture – and talked. The picture was an invitation to promote children to think about the possibilities. I simply said “What is going on?” […]

Children know they use their eyes to see things. But are there other ways that we can see things in our environment ? How do people know what is in […]

Our eyes are such an important piece of who we are. Today we continued to look at our identity through our facial exploration. We read the book by Dr Suess […]

Today we read a book called “what if I had an elephant nose?” It showed pictures of children with many different noses of animals. Would you like to have a […]

Today we found in on our nose. We use our nose all day long sometimes without even thinking. I asked all of the children “what is your favorite smell? What […]

Today we explored the skin on our face. Do any of us have freckles or dimples ? What’s under our skin? We read a fun book that talked about skin […]

Last week with been a lot of time talking about our faces. We drew them, we looked at them in mirrors , we constructed them from loose parts and we […]

Now that the children have studied their faces in a mirror and put them on paper we are going to take it a step further. Children were offered Playdoh and […]