WF, 10/30/2019 | Wee Friends Early Childhood Program LLC

Good Afternoon!

We have a classroom full of storytellers: children who tell stories purely based on imagination. Our imaginations run wild, full of unicorns, fairies, and rainbows, which turn into a detailed, concrete story.

“And then there the lies of storytellers, those fabrications, exaggerations, and outright balderdash that comprise a really good story. We excuse these untruths because, most of the time, we know from the start that the storyteller, the novelist, or the movie maker is creating something, that it didn’t really happen. We’re in on it, and in a very real sense, we are co-creators in that we suspend our disbelief and become part of the story. The fascinating thing about stories is that they are made up of “lies,” yet very often they convey a greater truth far more directly and clearly than we can ever hope to convey it through truth alone.”

While we can think of these fabricated stories as ‘lies’, it shows how detailed and imaginative children can be.

“When young children lie it’s generally quite easy to catch them out, and we should, gently, call them on it when their intent is to deceive, harm, or manipulate. But when their lies are of the “because I can” variety, such as about a stuffed teddy that talks or, as one girl insisted for the better part of a year, that she is, in fact, really a fairy, our better approach is to “believe” them as they practice creating the stories that they need to create in order to make sense of themselves and their world.”

http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/creating-stories-they-need-to-create.html

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In K/PREK1, we read ‘I Am Enough’ which goes along with our MACK for the week (Children will celebrate the differences and similarities that connect all people). Afterwards, we worked together to sort notecards into three categories: words, numbers, and letters. Each member got two cards and they had to decide what bag to put it into. Once all of the notecards were sorted, we counted the cards in each bag and quickly realized that each bag had four cards in it, prompting the response, “They’re equal!”

K.RV.2.2: Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories (e.g., colors, shapes, opposites)