.Dear Parents of Room 15,
This week, we did a flip flop in our classroom! Our floor time set up was placed on the tables and the table top activities (manipulatives) were placed on the floor. We wanted to see how the children would react and what activities they would gravitate towards. We have observed that they gravitated more towards the floor time activities and the manipulatives that were placed there. We have continued to explore our stonework play creations. Our stonework play is inspired by the International Stonework Play Day that is happening on November 7th. The creator of Stonework play, Diana Suskind explained this beautifully. “Stonework Play is a form of creative learning and is an open ended response to the invitation to work with stones, a natural resource. It engages the senses and animated imagination, allowing each person to tell a story or make a unique pattern suggested by handling the stone. The weight, form and texture of each stone suggest artistic choices that result in original work. Stonework Play responds to the idea of nature’s power to enrich the imagination. It helps the artist, no matter how young, to explore and express emotions, thoughts and feelings through stone arrangements and the stories they elicit. Stones are a kinesthetic medium, never fixed in their place or meaning, the ground an endless canvas, and small hands the brushes that move them.” Your children have used different sized rocks to create their own masterpiece. Some created letters, shapes, balloons, a flag and so many more wonderful expressions. We saw friends group together and collaborate their play ideas and topics of conversation revolved around the stone rocks. Due to the extreme heat this week, we had a blast playing with water outside! During this time, we observed new friendships forming, a lot of sharing with the water play spray bottles and water toys and a lot of smiles and giggles were seen and heard! In music with Andrew, we got to explore with a new instrument (xylophone.) The children had to share one xylophone per two children. We noticed that they followed Andrew’s directions very well, sharing the space and materials without any incidents. Thank you to Gavin and his family for spending Shabbat with us. Shabbat Shalom!
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Diana Suskind
12/21/2019 06:48:58 am
This was a nice surprise. Thanks for documenting your work with Stonework Play. I just finished a video . We did Stonework Play in a Salt Cave. It was so cool. See on youtube or my facebook page and please leave a comment. on youtube if you want Stonework Play: Stones in a Salt Cave. Proud of you. It is nice to leave an area that Stonework Play can happen daily. Just a little area with stones in a basket with maybe four clip boards paper and pencil. And they can sign in to go in there. Good luck. Send me your email to [email protected] and I can send you how my student did it.
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