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[reggiochildreninspired]

How we represent and celebrate skin color matters! These conversations help children be able to stand up in their power. We need to normalize conversations about skin color differences, uniqueness, the visible and invisible things that compose our identities. This fosters pride in young children. In our classroom one of the ways we celebrate people is by having skin color drawing utensils. We want our students to be able to represent all the skin tones of the world. It’s also important to think about when a child wants to represent themselves, how do we as teachers and parents support this? How do we celebrate and bring awareness to skin color in a positive way?

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This weekend I had the great fortune to stumble upon the Adventure Play Garden. It’s a space dedicated to supporting open-ended, child-directed play. Risk-taking is possible. Collaborative social problem solving abounds. It reminded me of Wild Lilac...but it’s open on Saturdays!

The Adventure Play Garden is located at 13949 SE Stark St.  They are currently open for free Play Days on Saturdays, from 10 am - 2 pm. The location is a large city lot, an old organic farm; now it is a huge field overgrown with tall grasses, wild flowers, and feral vegetables. There are all sorts of amazing loose parts, from wood pallets to rope to giant cardboard tubes. There’s a giant mud pit in the middle, with hoses and shovels and more. It’s all free, by donation, and the folks running the project are quite welcoming and friendly.  

The video above is from Vernon Elementary School in northeast Portland. Portland Free Play, the small nonprofit organization behind the Play Garden, is also starting to partner with local elementary schools to provide Play Pods -- large storage containers filled with loose parts. With them, children transform recess. 

If you are a parent of an elementary school student (or soon-to-be kindergartner), ask your new school’s principal if they’ve heard of Portland Free Play and pass this video along to them. Children of all ages need more of these opportunities in their daily lives at school. In the meantime, Cypress and Wally hope to see you at the Adventure Play Garden on a Saturday this summer!

[mez86]

Round Two - Week Two

“Who is someone that inspires you?” I have many little inspirations in my life....I work with them every day and they are all under 5 years old. The children I look after are my inspirations. I have worked in Childcare for just over ten years and everyday is a new day, a new challenge and many new memories made. They just continue to amaze me, their developments, their personalities and seeing them grow from babies to school age. I know it might seem a bit sappy, but they truly are my inspirations. I want to do the best by them, and that inspires me to work harder and keep going, even through the difficult times (trust me, there’s a lot of them) I don’t really have any pictures relating to me at work.....so I thought I would go with one of my favourite pieces from a psychologist Loris Malaguzzi.

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