In training today, we discussed the importance of creative play that does not have an external or pre-planned purpose. Because the child “thinks outside the box” in imaginative creative play (with open-ended materials) he problem solves without the constraint of using a material only as it is typically used. It is always a pleasure for us to see our school children using their imaginations to make an inanimate object take on a life of its own! For example, a child using a block as a telephone first observed (using his senses) an adult using a real phone, then via his imagination and will, the child reproduces the phone in play. Such play trains the brain and builds synapses, laying a foundation for later academic pursuits including executive skills such as negotiating, imagining outcomes, and planning.
In the afternoon, we discussed seven life processes including breathing, warming, nourishing, secreting/discriminating/eliminating, maintaining, growing, and generating.
Janie and I had fun learning to use sewing machines over the last week. We made our own aprons!
Back at school…I enjoyed receiving a picture of my children reading together.
Nap time smiles…
Someone rolled off their mat!
Teamwork making pizza…
Pig round-up…
They grew an inch!
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Have a happy day!
