Construction
Travers choses a dump truck to haul wood blocks. I’m building a garage. Travers carefully balances various size blocks and moves his vehicle slowly across the rug. Wes, observing Traver’s plan, finds a dump truck to haul more
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Pipes and Rubber Bands
Ian’s interest in the pipe and ball area for much of this week seems to have drawn others to the area, curious about what he was up to. When Sam joined Ian, he noticed that Ian
Wintery Playground
Okay, so there’s no real deep reason behind this post. It’s just to celebrate the magic of what happens when our playground is transformed by that amazing stuff – snow!
Block Play – Saige
Saige sits in an area on the stage, building a world of her own, occasionally giving clues about what is going on in her imaginary world.A wooden figure slides down the slide……and then Saige herself slides
The evolution of Beautiful Things
In recent days our beautiful stuff has been edited down to smaller items plus some larger cardboard pieces. To inspire continued building, the materials have been placed adjacent to our newly mirrored sensory table. We wondered
Look at this – it’s twisting.
On leaving the museum Elliott spotted George Rickey’s Three Lines. Elliott – Look at this – it’s twisting. Alice – How do you think it is moving?Elliott – I think the snow is pushing it.Addie – Me too.Alex –
Colors of Muddy Puddles
The colored felt squares have inspired more creations this week. We previously posted about the many ways the children were using this material earlier in the year (see Felt Squares – 10/26/17) Here is a glimpse
A SEKRET IS…
Over the weeks leading up to our winter break we heard much talk of secret codes and plans. Children were whispering secrets to their “teammates” and working with each other to figure out the other
“A slug has teeth.” Zaahra
Bringing the slugs inside, we shifted our relationship with them. Outside, children joyfully searched for the slugs, handling them, giving them food to eat and rocks to climb on. In this way, children were researching slugs
MORE HOLES
Holes are absolutely everywhere, as we discovered in October (see HOLES post). Is this about insertion? We certainly see children wanting to fill containers (really, just a portable hole!) and then transfer materials from one place