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. Lincoln was the size he was when he was alive (I must admit a metaphor I never thought of before.)
A fabulous picture she took of the flags around the Washington Monument.
And her tired feet!
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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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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 and there was a good number of people for actors and audience!
See PictureBook Plays for a clip of a great performance of Caps for Sale by our participants. My co-leader (daughter) and I learned a great deal from this first public presentation of our method. We discovered a vital part of the explanation that we didn’t include (which I think actually we just didn’t consider because we had been so focused on how to include everything in one hour).  It revealed that we teach really well together, that that little three year old could indeed entertain herself for an hour (of course, several surprise activities in her toy bag certainly helped.) Our workshop was at 4 – 5 pm after a long day of working a few publishers in the Exhibit Hall hoping that we’ll find a home for our book.
Because children are not allowed in the Exhibit Hall, daughter and I took turns entertaining granddaughter. One of the great ways to do this has turned out to be The Stage area where children’s musicians and local groups are entertaining for 1/2 hour slots. Granddaughter and I enjoyed some songs with Red Grammar.
We were so exhausted by the time we got back to our hotel room (after dinner of course!)
Today we were tourists walking many miles about this beautiful city – but more about that tomorrow!
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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 flights of stairs in the Baltimore Amtrak station because the elevator was broken. Somehow I never manage a trip without doing that.)
Today I went to a preconference day hosted by ACCESS and NAECTE. It was interesting, which I’ll write about another time as I’d like to do some research on the presentor.  Daughter and granddaughter went off to the Natural History Museum joining me later for the Exhibit Hall Opening.
20,000 people who work with young children. You would think we could at least move a few mountains together; but somehow we’ve not managed this on behalf of these young children.
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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.
But we’re still smiling, and letting go, which is the essence of saying “yes.”
Ah, and the wee-one is fast asleep in bed already so we’ll all wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after all is said and done.
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