The Process
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In school age care, the children often engage in play with different materials. Ideation is a tool children employ to gain understanding about their investigations.
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Where Have All the Children Gone?
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School begins in about a month. After Labor Day, I will again see hundreds of children walk down to the school bus for their first day. For their benefit, I wish they would go outside sooner.
Read MoreSocially Interactive
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When choosing their own work, often children are engaged with other children and much of the process of exploring their wonderings is done in collaboration. The process of discovery and creation then becomes a place for social interaction
Read MoreLight Panel and Crystal Climbers
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Our role as an educator is to scaffold and work alongside the children and support them in their investigation.
Read MoreActive Engagement
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In my experience the children are most happy when they choose their own work. The reason for their happiness is because of being invested in what they are doing.
Read MoreIs It Educational?
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When children are engaged in activities there is often a concern or a conversation among adults if the activity is educational. What does the term educational actually mean?
Read MoreThe Lego Community
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When the children are choosing work and have time to be mindful in their creative process, a collaborative effort blossoms. The collaboration begins with a discussion then turns to action as the ideas expressed are attempted and refined.
Read MoreDry Erase Exploration
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It was interesting to observe the children create the original images on dry erase boards and share the experience with another child. The process invited immediate feedback and a social connection for the children involved.
Read MoreToothpicks and String
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Often we document the success stories in our work with children. Some of the work we do is not as successful. Usually this occurs when we move away from the principals we believe in for the sake of convenience.
Read MoreEmbracing Free Play for Self Care
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As an educator we give time to others. We give selflessly to our schools, community, and the children. The demands of serving others often takes precedent over developing a rejuvenating self-care practice. Incorporating more free play into our lives will support our growth and well being as educators.
Read MoreFinding Your Calling
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I read a quote that said the two most important days in a life is when you are born and when you find your calling. Personally, I am searching for what finding your calling actually means. What does it feel like to find your calling?
Read MoreMagic Wands
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When educators observe children and stay in the moment, their actions and words give us clues about their interests and provide the direction our explorations will go.
Read MoreMaterials and Connections
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Instead of focusing on drawing, the children were utilizing the whiteboard as a tool to make social connections.
Read MoreThe Construction Discussion
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A discussion started amongst the children about if using others ideas was acceptable, to look at another design and then incorporate those ideas into your creation.
Read MoreChoosing Work
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Children love using recycled materials to create. The open-ended nature of the materials invite children to explore and dream about what is possible.
Read MoreCrumpled Paper
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The provocation was inviting the children to use simple materials and go on a journey, a journey without a known destination.
Read MoreA Learning Journey
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This is an opportunity to see professional development in a new light. To value it in the same way we value the practices we do with children on a daily basis.
Read MoreHop in a Restaurant
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Children are amazing at living in the moment. They move about their day taking in the world with all of their senses. Children get to experience the true meaning of life.
Read MoreOnline Learning at Possibilities ECE
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At Possibilities ECE, we want to share small acts of service within the Early Childhood Education Community. The classes we offer come from a desire to use our experience and knowledge to share with others, so children, families, educators, and the learning community will grow and thrive.
Read MoreThe Rubber Egg
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All of the wonderings we explore together in child initiated or educator initiated work, is the basis for our coming together.
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