What you do is to take the different bits of material which you have gathered and feel them all over, as it were, with the tentacles of the mind. You take one fact, turn it this way and that, look at...
Its a bit silly to post to apologize for not posting, but I imagine there is still a group of people out there who are interested in Bakers and Astronauts, and it is important for me to share my thou...
I just discovered the book talk blog from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst - and I love their recurring "picture book puzzlers" feature.(all images from The Carle)I have spent a decent amount...
Beads and Buttons on Wire (inspired by this)
When I was making some general plans for my last month at my current job, I was thinking about fun. I was thinking about doing stuff that I hadnt done with kids before; I was thinking about rea...
This Friday, Im sharing some things Ive seen that I would love to do in the classroom. These are some of those little things that really make you stop and think about how to facilitate children...
My brain was flying in all directions when I watched this video, via npr.Educationally, this video makes a clear case for:Project-based educationEarly Childhood EducationInquiry-based educationtinker...
The children loved playing with art dice last week. Pretty self-explanatory! The idea originally came from Tinkerlab.There are so many possibilities for these little wooden cubes: Im imag...
There is a new issue of the American Journal of Play out; Im especially looking forward to reading Lynn E. Cohens piece making connections between pretend play and the concept of carnival. Im a...
Im not good at keeping secrets, especially really exciting ones. Im happy to share something happy with you - it will definitely be dictating the subject matter on this blog very soon.It has be...
We explored printmaking last week. It was the first time for this group of children, so we painted with a single color onto trays that I purchased from the dollar store, and then a print was ma...
This video shows fantastic footage from school playgrounds in Berlin, and is real food for thought. Speaking about the playgrounds, Alistair Seaman shares that "the play equipment was alway...
There is something about old books that gets me, and I cant resist taking them home when they only cost 50 cents.This book, Experiences in Music, came home with me from a thrift store in a very small...
"As in all areas of uncertainty, I vacillate between the evidence continually provided by the childrens behavior, and my need to conform to conventional standards and opinions."(on deciding n...
Last Thursday, I cut some painting paper into quarters and took out little pots of paint and thin paintbrushes. Ive been feeling a little uninspired at the makers table lately, and watching the child...
I am loving teeny tiles. I can imagine using childrens artwork to make these, and also using them throughout the classroom environment (pictures, alphabet, numbers, jobs, schedule...anything!)....
Concentration, perseverance, and "crab pincher fingers" will reward you with a beautiful product...just to be turned over for the next person to work on the same shape. We are using the...
via Brainpickings
I came across this video via Takoma Park Nursery School, and it happens to be from their YouTube page. I loved seeing it because right now, my entire life revolves around the fine line bet...
Today at the overhead projector: things that are round.
Ive been thinking a lot about imaginative play - it has a lot to do with my thesis, but imaginative play is at the forefront of my mind most days as I watch children play. I dont have any pictu...
My week started with this impression of Christopher Walken reading Where the Wild Things Are. I loved it.I came across an online journal through the University of British Columbia: E...
Pipe cleaners allowed us to add three dimensional aspects to the treasure maps we started yesterday. By the end of the morning, the maps had bridges, tunnels, slides, giants, and "the Coast...
Today at the makers table, the children worked on a treasure map. We had the paper strips, tape, crayons, and markers to work with. When we gathered together in the morning, I told the ch...
You lucky readers get two weeks of links because I didnt get a post up last week! So lucky!I loved this video that Mariah of Playful Learning made from a favorite out of print book. The m...
I recently checked The Creative Family out of the library. The author, Amanda Blake Soule, is the writer and photographer behind Soule Mama, a wildly popular blog about life and famil...
On Tuesday, there was a simple prompt on the Makers table: two lengths of fishing wire attached to the ceiling and then down to the table, taped into place. I strung a length of pipe cleaners b...
This post needs few words: Mirrors, dry-erase markers, and some towels for erasing make for a very engaging morning.(And, a bonus flashback to drawing on mirrors in 2010!)
If you follow Bakers and Astronauts on Facebook, youve probably seen the rumblings of some conversation about an article discussion group. There seemed to be some interest when I first proposed...
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