Entries from November 23rd, 2009
Yes, she did take these photos. She has a great eye for it! Lions in front of the Concoran Museum. And lions at the zoo! The Lincoln memorial (she loved the echo inside, although we had to ask her not to try it out too many times.)  And she thought that the statute of Mr. [...]
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Tags: Children·travel
Packing. Granddaughter pretending to blog on my iTouch. Trying to stuff several days worth of treasures, paper, books, and handouts into suitcases that were overpacked on the way down.  See you online in a day or two when I have much more to say about the annual NAEYC conference.  Good night.
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Tags: NAEYC·teaching
Yesterday was the day of our workshop, which went really well. At first we thought it would not be very well attended, but eventually about 30 people filled the room (well, not filled fortunately — it was a room for 200). This turned out fine because it meant we didn’t need to use the mic [...]
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Tags: Children·PictureBook Plays·teaching·Washington DC
20,000 people: 19,782 of them women at least!  The NAEYC Annual Conference began officially today — 20,000 people involved with young children – what a sight! Daughter, Granddaughter and I left yesterday morning. We had a planes, trains, automobiles, and even a couple of buses kind of day (Not to mention hauling luggage up two [...]
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Tags: Children·daughter·NAEYC·teaching
From Guest Blogger SerahRose. This post has also been published at picturebookplays.com On Thursday, we are presenting a workshop called “Saying ‘yes!’ to physical and vocal expression with your preschoolers.” No one told us we’d be practicing saying “yes” to all our mistakes before we even got there. SerahRose left the cord to her laptop [...]
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Tags: mistakes·NAEYC·oops
My daughter and I leave Tuesday to present at and attend the NAEYC Annual Conference. If you’re going, come meet us and say hello on Thursday, November 19, at 4 – 5 pm Room207A of the Washington Conference Center. We’ll be presenting: “Picturebook plays: Saying “yes” to physical and vocal theatrical expression with your preschoolers.” [...]
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Tags: Children·learning·Picture Book Plays·teaching
On this day when we remember our Veterans – my father one of them – I want to say thank you to the children of those veterans. Children who didn’t necessarily get a choice about whether their parent was a soldier and was sent to war. I did a bit of Internet research, and only [...]
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Tags: Children·family·war and peace