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I went to an open house at one of my children’s schools recently and was excited to hear about the teacher’s “hand’s on” materials. Sadly, many educators get caught up in what I call the “semantics of pop education”. No, counting out a pile of twizzlers at your desk is not really meaningful math when [...] I know I won’t be able to post every day, but e few amazing things happened today that I want to share! One child chose the knobbed cylinders today. She is just turning four years old and had worked with this material last year. She created her own variation today! First, she took out four [...] After a few (nearly) sleepless nights of preparations, the big day arrived! One of the the only drawbacks of having the school in our home is that there is always “one more thing” I seem to need to do. The biggest change for this year is that I moved Mechel out of his room and created [...]
Girls who like to write….in cursive……of their own choosing. It’s true. Oh, and did I mention that they are only four? A couple of the girls have been working on their /at/ word lists (bat, cat, fat, etc.) They suddenly realized that they could write the names of their friends. All at once they ran to [...] Celery cutting was such a tremendous success and since the girls were able to complete the steps easily I introduced carrot peeling. This work has an additional level of difficulty because it introduces peeling before chopping. There were many special points of interest in this work: a carrot pitcher, an orange ceramic basket holding the [...] It was absolute magic! 12 girls anxious to eat celery. Really. I finally assembled all of the coordinating materials for celery cutting and demonstrated it to the girls today. Needless to say, they all lined up to do it. Baila was first to try it out and she did a great job: For the rest of [...]
Our last day of school got started with class photos. I took the girls down to the studio in the basement and posed them in front of our “school picture” backdrop. The girls all did a really great job (although Baila gave a very unusual smile for some reason!)
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