Identity Through Invisibility

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?” […]

Identity Through Blindfold

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 […]

Eye Spy

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 […]

What if I had an elephant nose ?

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 […]

What’s That Smell

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 […]

Our Skin

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 […]

Which part do you like the best ?

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 […]

My Face in 3D

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 […]

Loose parts and Identity

Children took loose parts and used them to represent their faces. This is an excellent activity that not only uses the imagination but cognitive skill as we recall on the […]

Identity through Suggestion

Today children were challenged to take the image of half a face and re-create the other half. Noticing when things are symmetrical sometimes comes from within us or is it […]