Studio Blue is eager and enthusiastic for our outdoor excursions, and the camaraderie is palpable! We’ve noticed themes of interest: HEIGHTChildren wanting to get up high, to climb, to hold things up high. (When we arrived
On a visit to the sculpture park in late January, Kaya brings along the card with this face on it. During a meeting time mapping game, he had said he wanted to know where it was.
As a staff, we are continuously exploring our Umbrella Topic, “How do children-in-residence encounter deCordova?” During our research we have noticed that children need a playful interaction to fully embrace a particular experience, space, or entity. They
Back in early January, we put Drippy Droppy on the easel, and heard this language: Ruthie What’s that red drip? Cal runs his finger down the blue drip: What’s that blue drip? Oh, it’s tears. He’s
Last Thursday, we put out what Cal called a ball maze in which metal balls can be rolled around a maze of sculptures using rods with magnets on the ends. While children were interested in interacting with
https://vimeo.com/253491473 Having introduced “Drippy Droppy” at the easels, we’ve now brought this sculpture to the felt area. See how Luca and Kaya work together, and then after Luca leaves, Kaya continues changing what we might call
The children continue to argue about the names of these two sculptures when they come up in our Face Game. With continued disagreements, sometimes rather heated, it became apparent that the children might need a place
We began laying out the big gray felt sheet and the smaller blue rectangle that are used in our “face game” in the middle of the floor, along with a basket of rectangles of felt that
As we listened to the children’s language around Penelope Umbrico’s piece (Out of Order: Bad Display,) we noticed a great interest around color, form and shape. This inspired the introduction of a variety of new explorations
Our interest in community has been gradually extending beyond the confines of LNS. We began the year “playing the face game” in meeting before snacktime to help the children learn each others’ names, incorporating Nancy, Emily,
