my mla :)

This is my life as a tumblr page!!

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These are my siblings! My brother, Elijah, is two years younger than me, so naturally we fight the most. My sister, Elise, is 4 years younger than me and my other sister, Ella, is 6 years younger than me. I was lucky enough to have siblings that are close to my age so that we had each other to play with when we were younger. Every day was an adventure :)

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lowkey an ariel fan

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My childhood favorite Disney princesses <3

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1/10

Music was a huge part of my little life, I learned all of the songs from my favorite movies- my mom got my two sisters and me the soundtracks to all the disney movies and the barbie movies. We memorized all the words, how long the rests were, and how to sing falsettos. We didn’t know we were learning, though. We were acquiring these skills through the experiences that we accumulated watching the movies over and over again, making constant CD/cassette requests in the car, and playing them on the stereo in our shared room. We were immersed in music, the songs that we would sing to clean up, the songs that we would learn at church, the music we would play in the car, and the songs that played in almost all of the movies we watched.

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one of the best Barbie songs no cap

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Barbie princesses! I was absolutely obsessed! I begged for the new doll every year, had the songs memorized, and had my siblings obsessed as soon as they knew what Barbie meant!

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“This totality of experiences, the cultural structuring of the households, whether related to work or play, whether they take place individually, with peers, or under the supervision of adults, helps constitute the funds of knowledge children bring to school.” (pg. 134 Moll, 1992)

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There was a girl named Nateh (naw-teh) who lived at the end of our block. She’s older than us, so naturally, she was way better at coming up with stories than we were. We were always excited when she could play outside with us because she had the best ideas. We all came from different backgrounds, different levels of education, and different exposures to media. When we came together to play, we taught each other what we could to make it more exciting. We brought all that we knew from our own experiences to create stories with each other. We created characters for ourselves with different personalities and different strengths. We came up with adventures and battles and conflicts and resolutions. We would plan out our stories and brainstorm them as we went along, having heated discussions about what would happen next before acting it out. We taught our younger sisters how to play and what to do, which storylines to follow. And, in turn, they brought new stories and ideas into our make-believe. It was always fun to play with new people because they had more ideas for adventures and characters.

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If I had a tumblr in elementary school...

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3/10

We started to learn how to play the recorder in school, and I was ecstatic. We were learning how to make music with something other than our voices! In our prep period, we learned what notes were and how to read a rhythm. This was my first exposure to a music staff and how to read sheet music. Our music teacher taught us the fingerings for the recorder and which notes they made. It took a lot of memorization and practice to put together the notes and the rhythms in a way that sounded vaguely like music. We learned how to read and play music together.

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This is my absolute favorite picture of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, it's a work of art! The concentration, the posture, the pose... *chef's kiss*

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“It is the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.”

(Vygotsky, 1993) in reference to the Zone of Proximal Development

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4/10

The adults in my life had created a space where I was able to learn how to read on my own, giving me the tools and the push I needed to form my own ability to use my imagination and make reading an entirely new experience.

In elementary school, I was learning how to read chapter books without any pictures. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who worked hard to make reading fun for me. Since we didn’t have a TV or video games, my choices were limited and I kept trying to read because I was bored. My mom was always a huge advocate for my reading, always giving me new books to try to read, sometimes reading them with me. My dad always tried to read to me at night, we would read the Chronicles of Narnia. My grandma always took us to the library- my siblings and I would bring stacks of picture books home. They made reading with them so fun, but my ability to form stories in my head was limited to the books with pictures- Junie B Jones had pictures, Geronimo Stilton, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I had a hard time reading the books with no pictures because it wasn’t really a connected story in my head, just a page of words. The memory of reading the Harry Potter series stands out to me because it was the first time I didn’t see just words on a paper- I was watching the story play out through the pages. It was so cool, like I had unlocked an awesome new toy. I was really excited so I started reading all the other books my mom had tried to get me to read before- books like A Series of Unfortunate Events, Charlie Bone, The Mysterious Benedict Society- they were all new and exciting with this new ability I had!

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Can't forget about my fav , percy jackson!!

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I absolutely loved the prequels, no hate on the OGs!! I'm a little obsessed w obi and padme though

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my emo self loved this when I was in middle school