kinders get ready to enter a ‘new/old world.’
—
“so many worlds,
so much to do,
so little done,
such things to be.”
-alfred lord tennyson
Apr18
Tag Archives: learning
Apr8
parts.
the theory of loose parts and the right to be creative.
(kinders live this every day)
—
“in any environment,
both the degree of inventiveness and creativity,
and the
possibility of discovery,
are directly proportional
to the number
and kind of
variables in it.”
-theory credit: Simon Nicholson – The Theory of Loose Parts, 1971
Feb26
c.
“the invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
-ralph waldo emerson
—
image credit: mindblowing facts
Jan28
up close.
kinder gets up close.
—
“you can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close”
-howard g. hendricks
Jan19
light and shadows.
kinders write by candlelight
find their own shadows
make a tiger on the ceiling.
—
“find beauty not only in the thing itself
but in the pattern of the shadows,
the light and dark which that thing provides.”
-junichiro tanizaki
Oct22
‘the outside doesn’t always match the inside.’ – r. crane
farmer m shows the kinders what’s inside.
—
‘who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.’
-carl jung
—
oakland county farmer’s market, pontiac, michigan
Sep27
change.
kinders find magic in the japanese garden
seeing things change right before them.
—
‘change is a measure of time, and in the autumn, time seems speeded up.
what was, is not and never will be;
what is, is change.’
-edwin way teale
Sep14
the next one.
kinder climbs to the top and reaches back down.
—
“the way I see it, if you climb the wall,
you reach back down and help the next one up.”
-carolyn aronson
Aug10
reach.
grandies
jump in.
get dirty.
fall down.
and
reach again
even higher.
“jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.”
-ben stein
Jul21
facts.
joyful young scientist
teaching and demonstrating
for even younger scientists
ends his hands-on physics and chemistry lessons
with a show-stopper
a fog-shooting cannon
crafted from a garbage can
and the crowd realizes how much they love science
and simply cannot get enough.
—
“facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
-edmund burke
—
ann arbor public library, pittsfield branch
