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Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Are you having a tantrum?

It was time to get dressed for the day and she insisted on wearing yesterday's dirty pants and her blueberry-stained pink nightshirt, which...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - How have things changed?

Truly, I should be writing more in this blog, during this new normal. My teaching days are now filled to the brim with new experiences - ...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Do you see an airplane?

I love large cardboard boxes. Preschoolers delight in them, too. This past fall, someone donated one to our class and it became our...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What do you know how to do?

We've been asking the children, what do you know how to do, all by yourself? This has proven to be a very fun conversation starter. The ...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Why teach about Black Lives Matter to preschoolers?

I am posed this question a lot. Some have challenged me, saying that Black Lives Matter is inappropriate for preschoolers. When I begin t...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19 How might we help parents?

What a shock to families, to be home full-time, around the clock, with your energetic preschooler! As we continue to build our virtual learn...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Can we talk together?

This magic moment: It is indoor recess and they play together, building with our large, foam, 'blue blocks.' They construct a simple struc...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID - 19: How to explain to kids?

I made a short video for my students, to explain this coronavirus pandemic in terms that they might understand. I have long admired Fred R...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Why are we skipping this?

Earlier this month, a teacher friend called me to check on their read-aloud of the marvelous Martin Luther King, Jr. book, Martin's Big Word...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What should kids reflect on?

We plan to make frequent phonecalls to the children, sharing the responsibility for these amongst the team. What should we talk to the child...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: How does vocabulary grow?

Frog* loves to talk. She has been sharing her voice with us since she was very young, making so many beautiful sounds. As she approached 18 ...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What do the parents say?

Here's what we're hearing about virtual learning: "We love the read-alouds!" "My child does not like the read-alouds." "It is hard for...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: Should I wash dishes?

Is there anything more fun than water for children? Frog's loves to play at the sink, to 'wash dishes.' Throughout the years I taught pres...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: What about a picture walk?

How about a few photos of some of the fun we have enjoyed during March, without any extra words? A photo journal, if you will, of Frog's exp...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: What is new?

Two year old Frog is full of questions, and one reins supreme these days - "What is that?" Nothing new or different seems to escape her view...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What is there to savor?

Here we are in the middle of week eight of shelter-in-place. I am finding that my phone calls with preschoolers and families are taking a li...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What is tough?

There is so much that is so tough about virtual teaching. This old gal is hoping that learning all this new technology - group chats, F...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What happens when we Zoom together?

We had a very special Zoom call yesterday afternoon, initiated by one of our families. This was our first time connecting with one anoth...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: Anti-bias early childhood

This morning, we kicked off the 2020-2021 school year's Anti-Bias Early Childhood Working Group , an initiative of D.C. Educators for Soci...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: How do we go on?

Yesterday, when our nation seemed to fall apart at its seams, when an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, so many horrifying images flashin...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID means - What should this blog share now?

As another calendar year draws to a close, I find myself musing about this blog. I started it so many years back, when I was teaching presch...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: What if we head to the creek?

We love exploring Sligo Creek park with Frog. We have a ritual where we collect a few sticks, leaves, and/or rocks and toss them into the c...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: What is another perspective?

There it is, in the distance! As we walked through the townhouse parking lot, on our walk to the creek, we heard loud, unexpected hammering....

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19: Virtual Learning

Just like that, we will not meet in our classroom, but virtually only, preschoolers and teachers, for the foreseeable future, while our...

Pondering Preschool

30.11.2022

Pondering Preschool: What about skin color?

Scene: Two young children, preschoolers, playing in our dramatic play center, which is all about travel these days. We have created an airp...

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Pondering Preschool - Kids & Parenting

Pondering Preschool: Are you having a tantrum?

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - How have things changed?

Pondering Preschool: Do you see an airplane?

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What do you know how to do?

Pondering Preschool: Why teach about Black Lives Matter to preschoolers?

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19 How might we help parents?

Pondering Preschool: Can we talk together?

Pondering Preschool: COVID - 19: How to explain to kids?

Pondering Preschool: Why are we skipping this?

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What should kids reflect on?

Pondering Preschool: How does vocabulary grow?

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What do the parents say?

Pondering Preschool: Should I wash dishes?

Pondering Preschool: What about a picture walk?

Pondering Preschool: What is new?

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What is there to savor?

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: What is tough?

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19 - What happens when we Zoom together?

Pondering Preschool: COVID-19: Anti-bias early childhood

Pondering Preschool: How do we go on?

Pondering Preschool: COVID means - What should this blog share now?

Pondering Preschool: What if we head to the creek?

Pondering Preschool: What is another perspective?

Pondering Preschool: COVID 19: Virtual Learning

Pondering Preschool: What about skin color?

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