Thursday, April 9, 2009

more scenes from an April garden . . .









































There are so many things we learn in the garden, how things grow is only one. 

We spent an hour there this morning ~ painting and looking and talking.

We noticed colors. 

We counted flowers. 

We noticed the shapes of circles, triangle, and stars.

We learned about paints and mixing colors. 

We learned about eachother. 

We learned about beauty.

We learned that pollen makes us sneeze.

And, we learned that lawn chairs have to be sat in gently or you end up face first in a palette of paints!

And then we learned why we wear old clothes for painting, how we clean things up, and how to get back to painting!

Then, we learned about lunch time.

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Bookshelf

Shannon's currently-reading book montage

The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Shannon's read-in-2012 book montage

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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