Perspectives

The Motto of our school for the last 4 years that I have been teaching there is Dream Big. No idea is to big to bring to the table to be discussed. It has been the most amazing teaching experience ever. I so love that our ideas are listened to and the ones we have that we thought there was no way that administration would go for - guess what - they happened. So, I am in the process of repainting  a huge puppet theater and these are the chairs used with it. I wanted to make our school wide theme come into our classroom so that when parents walk through the door of our school with their 4 year old for the first time - they know this is a school where dreams do matter and they can be proud that their child is a part of that. To elaborate a little more - one of our Early Childhood dreams was to have parents come into our classrooms and sign their child in and out every day. It would give us face to face contact with parents we would normally not see since we are a Title 1 Community...

In preparation for my trip to the Boulder Journey School, I have started reading one of the books that I received with the grant money from Funds For Teachers. "Working in the Reggio Way; A Beginner's Guide for American Teachers" by Julianne P. Wurm is my first book that I read. It was so good I actually read it in 24 hours. Easy to read and lots of ideas on how to implement some of the Reggio way into your classroom without being too overwhelmed. I love the idea that you pick 5 things in your classroom to change and work on those changes. Once you are satisfied with those changes you pick 5 more things. I have already started implementing some of the ideas before reading this book on my own just with what I know is Developmentally Appropriate for 4 year olds. So it has been really cool to find out how much I have already changed and the direction I need to go from here. I want to learn more about the Project Approach that is used. The new curriculum I get to try next s...

I am soooooo excited! I get to go to Boulder, Colorado to see the Journey School which is closely tied to the Reggio Emilia, Italy school! I can not wait to get fresh ideas to implement into my pre-k classroom.  Fund for Teachers gave a grant for 6 of us to go (maybe 8?) and I was asked if I wanted to go - of course the answer was YES!  More to come as time gets closer....