by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Feb 1, 2017 | Banner, Parents, Pedagogy
Early Childhood Education has lots of these esoteric platitudes to express their far reaching and practical principles. Lately we’ve been thinking and talking about “Everyone is the same and everyone is different”. What does that really mean? Obviously we human beings...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Jan 1, 2017 | Banner, Behavior, Snapshot
When Gabe’s mother walks through the office on her way to pick up Gabe, she meets Gabe’s four-year-old friend Lilly going out the door with her mother. “Gabe is still cleaning up,” announces Lilly with a little foreboding in her voice. Sure enough, Gabe is putting the...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Dec 1, 2016 | Banner, Behavior, Mental Health, Pedagogy, Snapshot
Today the children were in the block area wanting to build and using the big dump trucks loading them and dumping them. “You can’t drive here said Eve there is a bag accident on the freeway” Cameron drew his big truck back and seemed to be deciding if her would just...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Aug 1, 2016 | Banner, Behavior, Snapshot
I love you I hate you I never will marry nobody but you. – Jessica, age 4 Children’s language is often quite tangled. Today in the nursery school Jeff was upset that the new teacher had asked him to come back and put away the crayons he’d been using to draw his...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Apr 1, 2016 | Banner, Mental Health
Early childhood mental health is a subject area that has grown tremendously with the explosion of neuro-biological research over the past few decades. It is a classic example of timeless principles of development being enhanced and scientifically validated by new...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Apr 1, 2016 | Banner, Behavior, Mental Health, Snapshot
Today in the Playroom, my focus falls on four little girls. Two of them (Kenisha & Ruthy) are new to the school and are playing at a table. Nearby, two other little girls (Lilu & Anna) who have been at BlueSkies together since their days as Wobbly Walkers, are...