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Banner February 2017 – Everyone is the same, everyone is different

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...

Snapshot in the Playroom – Cleaning up

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...

Snapshot in the Nursery School: The Accident

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...

Snapshot in the Playroom – Tangled Language

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...

Banner April 2016 – Mental Health

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...

Snapshot in the Playroom – Growing the sense of self

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...
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