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Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 28th, 2008
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Another week exploring stories, exploring them from the inside and making them up as we go along. After some books and enegizing songs, we read Move! by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page. Their books focus on nature and animals illustrated using a [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 14th, 2008
WOW! What a cool week! This was the first week that we explored stories and were creating something without using the materials! We used ourselves instead! Here’s how it happened: We were reading Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty and Maddie suggested that we act out the story. So some people were Hondo the Dog and [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 5th, 2008
Halloween! What a fun time! It was such a nice day, too. Did you enjoy dressing up? I did! I was a penguin, although it was a strange looking kind of penguin. A lot of people thought I was a raven, so maybe people want to be scared….so scary stories it is! We told the [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 26th, 2008
Today was a great storytime, and I can tell it was because I didn’t read everything that I brought. It’s more fun when kids decide what to do. We did read two fun books, a new one called Hello! Is This Grandma? by Ian Whybrow and Can You Guess? by Margaret Miller.
Can You Guess? is really fun because [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 11th, 2008
At the end of last week, we danced with the lights off and saw our shadows on the wall. I thought this was so interesting, the way our shadow seems like a part of us but can also seem so different and strange, like someone we know when we see them, but we have no [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 9th, 2008
Explorastory has been meeting for the last few weeks, but the posts are a little behind. Not to worry! I wrote down what we read and did. Two weeks ago we tried out dancing! We read Wiggle by Doreen Cronin and Who Bop? by Jonathon London. I love when we get to read jazz books because it’s so [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Sep 5th, 2008
I thought that after seeing a bike that Sam built we would be excited to try building our own machines, or at least thinking about what we need to build them. I thought we needed some parts, so I went to the Ohio City Bicycle Co-op in the Flats near downtown Cleveland. They were very nice and [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Aug 29th, 2008
School started this week, but I’m tellin’ you there is a lot more fun to be had out there. Today we thought all about bikes, how we ride them, how they are made and what it feels like to ride. We looked at some books PLUS we had a super fun visit from Sam, who brought in [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Aug 22nd, 2008
When I rode into work today, there were some guys with big hammers and chisles standing around outside. I thought they were exterminators at first, but as it turns out they were here to redo some of the sidewalk panels. This was very interesting because it’s not often that you get to see what falls [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Aug 8th, 2008
And so the nature of reggio emilia continues to reveal itself through the mysterious windings and unwindings of our conversation. Not that we were particularly or completely finished with talking about community, but what was on Emily’s mind was not neighborhoods but something else. Monsters.
See, monsters have been invading all the trucks in Emily’s house. So [...]
