100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared [...]
Tags: Children·college·conversations·learning·light bulbs·teaching
The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults! Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and [...]
Tags: Children·college·huffington post·joy·play·teaching·Work
100 Day Project – Day 31 – 8:57 p.m. Today I read Llama Llama Red Pajama – not once – but twice! Did you? As part of JumpStart’s Read for the Record Program, I enjoyed reading the book to a group of early childhood pre-service teachers, and a group of women who donated books and [...]
100 Day Project – Day 21 – 8:04 p.m. Today at the community college where I teach the librarians hosted a Banned Book reading. The librarians had a few excerpts to read, and others brought readings as well. We heard segments from Harry Potter, Lolita, And Tango Makes Three and the entire Howl. I was [...]
Tags: banned books·Books·Children·college·conversations·learning·librarians·teaching
100 Days Project – Day 8 – 9:31 a.m. Last Friday it dawned on me that 100 days project in school meant 100 days in school! I had to debate with myself whether I was going to plan to write everyday or give myself permission not to make an entry on non-school days. So as [...]
Tags: blogging·Burnout·Children·family·learning·teaching·time
100 Day Project – Day 4 – 9:36 a.m. Yesterday’s teaching load was one that probably most wouldn’t choose! I begin the day at 8 sitting in on half of a learning community that a colleague and I set up. At 9:30, the class is mine to lead, in what is generally called Freshman Study [...]
Tags: acgricultural fair·Children·community·family·learning·teaching
100 Days Project – Day 3 – 5:55 a.m. When I was thinking about doing this project, I had grandiose ideas of reading important authors writing important thoughts about teaching and learning and reflecting on that material. I have read quite a bit of it, and have more stacked up. And, I still intend to [...]
Tags: Children·colleagues·conversations·copiers·learning·teaching·time
It’s a beautiful spring day here — after yesterday’s gloomy April showers. There’s just a tiny bit of snow pack left between houses. This morning’s smells make me think of the forsythia bush next to 20 New St where often when spring broke out my children could be found setting up house. It also [...]
Snow days and what do we do with them? I came across this blog posting about how to teach our students when we can’t be with them. This thought, I’m sure, was brought on by the fact that many of us in New England, and perhaps other places in the US, had two weather related [...]
Tags: Children·creativity·problem solving·snow days·teaching
We had a great time presenting at SECA (Southern Early Childhood Conference) today in Savannah, Georgia. Preschool Players at SECA
