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  • Autumn – Changing Seasons and Changing Times – Our Story

    Our Themes: -Recognising, understanding, accepting and adapting to change -Empathy -Letting go Habits of Mind: -listening with empathy and understanding… devoting mental energy to another’s thoughts and ideas, making an effort to perceive another’s point of view and emotions. -gathering…

    By Christina Birch May 19, 2020
  • Dinner Table Thinking Siblings, Space and Serenity Now.

    Think of a really good person that you know. What is it that makes this person good? Is the moon made of green cheese? How do you know? If someone is being kind to you but accidentally ends up hurting…

    By Christina Birch April 8, 2020
  • Siblings, Space and Serenity Now! Papa Please Get The Moon For Me by Eric Carle

    Week 2 Our Themes this week are family, siblings, helping, kindness, feelings, learning new things and the Moon. Our Habits of Mind focuses are creating, imagining and innovating, responding with awe and wonderment, listening with empathy and understanding. Questions to…

    By Christina Birch April 8, 2020
  • Siblings, Space and Serenity Now … ‘The Gower Family’ by George Romney 1776

    Talk About Art …Visual Thinking Strategies Early Childhood Questions About the Painting: -can you make some of the poses that the Gower children are making in their dance? -if you don’t have a tambourine, how could you make music to…

    By Christina Birch April 8, 2020
  • Dogs and Doughnuts: Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller

    So we begin! Week 1 Our Themes this week are friendship, family, compassion and accepting differences, as well as puppies… and food (especially doughnuts!) Our Habits of Mind focuses are Thinking Flexibly, Finding Humour and Persisting. Discussion ideas and Guidelines:…

    By Christina Birch April 1, 2020
  • Dogs and Doughnuts: Dinner Table Thinking

    Here’s a few tricky morsels of ideas for the family to discuss over dinner. Enjoy! Is the hole in the middle of a doughnut part of the doughnut if you can’t eat it? Can you dream a taste? Why don’t…

    By Christina Birch April 1, 2020
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    Welcome to my world! I have been in Early Childhood Education for over 25 years, the last few years using stories, art, philosophy and Habits of Mind as the basis of my learning program. I’d like to share some ideas…

    By Christina Birch March 25, 2020

Welcome to my world!

I have been in Early Childhood Education for over 25 years, the last few years using stories, art, philosophy and Habits of Mind as the basis of my learning program.

This learning is challenging but fun and no doubt will soon be involving your whole family in some interesting discussions!

This site will give you the tools and strategies to create and engage in a community of enquiry with your family.

Christina Birch

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