Storyboarding
I am interested in play patterns and in story. I am especially interested in helping ALL children access play with peers. This year, I added storyboarding to our practice. This increased interest in mark-making while it also expanded children’s connections to peers.
Storytelling, The Forever Story
The class journal, “The Forever Story” is amazing from the first page to the last. It’s so interesting to read how the children embraced this method of collective story telling and offered their own, unique and lovely additions to a story that goes on forever.
Observe The Play
We observe the play, first and foremost, just for the joy of it. We observe to rediscover the wonder of play. Then we also observe to follow the relationships. We look for the connections between people, between bits of information, and between the children and the natural world. And because of this, we know the children.
Building Play
The play builds. Just like blocks on top of blocks. The children take the play messages left by the group before and move easily into their own play arcs. The play goes on. And on. And on.