RSSa New Years measage from Beth!
Dec 21
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As we approach the New Year, it is a delight for me to think back and recognize how quickly and creatively all of our friends are growing. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you all where my vision of our science and movement program is directed.
The purpose of my role in the preschool is to support our community’s inquisitive and expressive development. In our science curriculum, I aim to create an environment that can challenge and support each individual child’s observational skills, their ability to follow cause and effect, and finally to draw conclusions about their observations. There is a beautiful simplicity and clarity in these skills that supports our child centered theory at Childroots and allows for a great explosion of joy and curiosity in our scientific exploration.
The movement curriculum is different. My purpose in the movement curriculum is to support each child’s opportunity and ability to express their own story through the first tools they have, their body and their voice. Story is how we understand the world; how it works, where we belong in it, and what kind of power we have to change this world. In order to support that story telling, I aim to create an environment that helps support their strong growing bodies and enhances their understanding of all of the different ways their body can move. And, eventually this facility with movement will be the tools they can refine in games that incite their great storytelling capacity.
It excites me that my consistency as a part of the Childroots community allows for the provocations for both my movement and science curriculum to come out of what the children are already exploring with their primary care teachers.
It excites me that we as a community have the resources to offer this kind of focused curriculum in respect of the children’s inquisitive and expressive potential. Thank you all for the love and support you offer these fantastic little individuals as they go about figuring out how to be people in this great big world. I wish you all the best in the coming New Year!