• m is for mama… our activities

    Look at this beautiful picture of a child with her mummy. The artist drew this with pastels. Can you draw a picture like this of you and your mummy or someone in your family that you love lots? Make it…

  • m is for mama… our painting

    See: What can you see in this painting? Let your child look slowly to observe the things that they could touch. What do they notice. Give them time and talk about ‘slow looking’. Think: When your child has talked about…

  • m is for mama… our story

    Our Themes this time are Mothers who are celebrating Mother’s Day this week, quirky families, appreciating differences as well as appreciating spots, stripes, patterns and elephants! Our Habits of Mind focuses this time: Thinking Flexibly – being able to change…

  • Dogs and Doughnuts: Followup Activities

    Make an ‘I Wonder’ book out of your scrapbook or visual diary. Design and create a fabulous cover with a picture/photo of you on the front cover wearing your best thinking face. Write and/or draw something that you wonder about…

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • Start with Art Education

    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…