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When Children Choose

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Let me describe a typical snack time. The table is beautifully set by the children. Each child brings their own snack that their  parents have lovingly supplied for them. Some children have many choices and some just have one treasured item for snack.

The children sit and talk for sometime but a lot of . . . → Read More: When Children Choose

CCRR Victoria is hosting the Exhibit

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We are excited to be hosted by Victoria CCRR. We hope that you can join us!

The Pretties Revisited

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So the children have embraced the table setting practice. One day when I was getting ready for snack a child offered to help me set the table. I asked her if she wanted to do it herself. She responded enthusiastically with a yes.  I quickly put a tray together of my materials . . . → Read More: The Pretties Revisited

Holes

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“It takes a universe to make a child, both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child, a universe to fulfill a child.”    Thomas Berry

I have been on vacation on a tropical island in the Pacific. All I will say . . . → Read More: Holes

Invitation to Parents

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How do you create an art provocation that invites  parents to engage in  their own creative processes?

This was a question an ECE I know was reflecting on. She facilitates a program in which parents and caregivers, grandmother’s and grandfather’s stay with their children. Traditionally in these programs adults engage alongside the child, or simply . . . → Read More: Invitation to Parents