I just got back from a very good conference in Boulder, Colorado. (Sorry, Mom and Dad – there was no time to meet up or I would have called you!) I was just the thing to start off the year right. It wasn’t one of those ‘make-it, take-it’ things where you learn cute ideas for Monday morning, but a two-day institute on learning to observe and document children’s work/play so that you can see what they are really learning and make good teaching choices based on that. It was kind of a refresher course, and it’s got me pumped and ready for the coming year.
One of our activities was to watch somebody play around with buttons and take notes. This is Annette’s button creation. Don’t you all think that she’s gifted??
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