How can our environment provoke different styles of play? This is the question Quartz Room educators have been asking themselves the past few days. Recently we moved our kitchen area to allow for better large body play on our carpet. This subtle switch not only created the space for the large body play but also…
Have you been exploring different materials at home? This has been an especially exciting week in Shale of discovery and playfulness. We’ve continued our exploration of different materials and this week our interests have lead us to exploring materials and objects through sound. By moving objects and materials in all sorts of directions such as…
Storytelling and reading stories has continued to be an interest over the week here in Sandstone, the children continue to incorporate the fairy-tale stories in their play. Over in the block corner there was some construction of a building going on; it had small blocks around the perimeter and tall towers in the middle. The…
“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count, childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child.” This quote is central to our philosophy in Jasper room, we have been developing the ideals behind allowing…