Re-connecting
Welcome back from a vacation week which for many was filled with skiing, sun, family and friends. Children were happy to return to school, eager to re-connect with friends and materials new and old.
Archive for February 2019
A New Way of Building
A delicate touch was needed to construct with our new table top blocks this week. As the children worked we witnessed many ideas and skills being utilized and tested. Hand-eye co-ordination concentration patience spatial awareness math
“Let’s take pictures!”
As a teaching team in our thinking around empathy, we continue to turn the children’s attention towards the other. We decided to use a tool we find invaluable in capturing seeing more deeply. Using photography
Adding a new tool.
For the past two weeks, the children have been exploring a new tool called a “zoomie.” Attached to the computer and its camera, the zoomie provides an opportunity to view the world differently – to view
Watch this spiral…
Wire has now expanded into many areas of the studio. During a museum visit we discussed how long it must have taken Shelia Pepe to finish her work as well as how different parts were interlinked.
Snow Slush Ice
With our variable weather conditions during the past few weeks, the children’s have had many outside experiences with snow, slush and ice. Here are some indoor wintry explorations from our afternoons. The children made puffy snow
Ready for any weather
When rain boots aren’t enough. Tait finds a creative way to stay a little drier while playing in the meltwater in the back playground. As Nancy remarked, ‘necessity is the mother of invention’.
true stories of studio red
What children learn does not follow as an automatic result from what is taught, rather, it is in large part due to the children’s own doing, as a consequence of their activities and our resources.—Loris Malaguzzi, The