Dear parents, grandparents, and caregivers, are you, like me, … wondering if all those colorful plastic lids you throw out could have another life? … looking for another (easy, right at hand, safe*) way to engage your little ones? … …
When I read about a design challenge with a very practical purpose: to safely hold and transport a variety of take-out items for a family taco dinner, using paper products, it brought a related, and inspiring, challenge to mind. “Which …
Is it Engineering, a Challenge, or Compassion? To preschoolers it’s all the same. Read more »
I am intrigued by the way that curious young thinkers observe, question, reflect, analyze, and conclude — to come to a new understanding. This is early learning at its best! It is not often that I get an extended period …
I was asked by a teacher recently, what is an activity that I particularly like to do with my preschoolers in the fall. Not too surprisingly, apples came to mind. I have taught decades of preschool classes in Minnesota and …
These are some of my favorite moments… when learning is happening because you, or a student, or your child “just thought of it” and you “seize the moment.” It might be that you will teach or learn or discover …
We had a serendipitous start to our school year! This is a story from two multi-age classrooms of two-and-a-half to four-and-a-half-year-olds from our second week of school! Living here in the desert, I have been lamenting that we have access …
We have just started the school year at Summit School in Phoenix and already our preschoolers are proving themselves to be amazing. Or in this case, we should say “incredible.”* *Dictionary definitions of “incredible” vary as to the degree …
Shadows are fascinating, and they can be a lot of fun. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a now-classic poem called “My Shadow.” Many of us remember it from his A Child’s Garden of Verses. It begins: I have a little shadow that …
Lately, I’ve been noticing how much learning is going on in our classroom at lunchtime! And I was thinking today that of course that could happen at home, as well. All you need is one or more curious kids and …
It’s the middle of June, and some of us are already in the summer doldrums – the kids have been out of school for several weeks and (in Phoenix, at least) it is already so hot our energy is sapped. …
