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Icy Hearts and Shapes STEM Exploration
Icy Hearts & Shapes STEM Exploration// Introducing children to different hands-on experiences in environments that young children are...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Feb 5, 20242 min read
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Kehinde Wiley Collaborative Canvas Collage
Black History Month presents a wonderful opportunity to discuss and expose race, civil rights, artists, musicians, authors, food, public...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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Invitation to Create Amy Wu's Patchwork Dragon
The story Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon  written by Kat Zhang & illustrated by Charlene Chua which are part of an amazing series. In...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 31, 20242 min read
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Lunar New Year Dragons Two Ways
We have started gearing up for the Lunar New Year of the Dragon first by reading & looking at books about Dragons, showing them the...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 30, 20242 min read
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Glow and The Dark Northern Lights Painting
After doing the Invitation to Explore the Northern Lights last week the children were still talking about it so much that we invited them...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 26, 20241 min read
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Ice Skating Lines + Designs
Did you know that the writing process begins long before a child even forms letters with a pencil. It involves building pre-writing...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 24, 20241 min read
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Dinosaurs in the Snow
With all this recent wonderful winter play exploring cold habitats, arctic animals, and the chilly weather, a simple question from a...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 23, 20241 min read
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Camp Renegade Play Virtual Summit
I'm so excited to announce that I will be presenting at Camp Renegade Play Virtual Summit! You can learn absolutely everything you’d ever...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 22, 20241 min read
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Invitation to Explore Glaciers in the Arctic
Today we read the story Glacier on the Move by Elizabeth Rusch  (Author), Alice Brereton (Illustrator) which is about a glacier Flo who...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 19, 20241 min read
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Invitation to Explore the Northern Lights Two Ways
The story The Lights that Dance in the Night by Yuval Zommer is a wonderful way to explore and learn about the Northern Lights that...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 18, 20241 min read
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Invitation to Create Yue Minjun Art Exhibition
One of our other artist of the month is Yue Minjun who is a contemporary Chinese artist. He is best known for oil paintings depicting...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 17, 20241 min read
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Nature View Tree BookShelf
Nature View Tree BookShelf #gifted by @discountschoolsupply helped us enhance and create an immersive nature-inspired comfy corner that...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 16, 20241 min read
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Resist Do Ho Suh Painting
Do Ho Suh  is one of our artists that we are exploring this month. He is a Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation,...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 12, 20242 min read
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Invitation to Create like Do Ho Suh
Do Ho Suh is one of our artists that we are exploring this month. He is a Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, installation,...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 11, 20242 min read
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Snow Construction Site Small World Play
There are many reasons why young children are fascinated by the world of construction  and the equipment. The loud noises, flashing...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 10, 20241 min read
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Invitation to Create Snowflakes with Loose Parts
Before inviting the children to create snowflakes we asked them questions about what they knew about them? After discussing that they...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 9, 20242 min read
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STEAM Tobogganing/Ice Skating Small World Play
We have been exploring arctic animals and all things winter so we wanted to invite the children to explore how arctic animals can go...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 8, 20241 min read
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Snowball STEM Challenge
This STEM invitation lets children build and balance materials through open ended exploration with snowballs! With plastic cups, cds,...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 5, 20241 min read
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Mixed Media Winter Collage
To explore winter through process art, setting out an invitation to paint a mixed media collage with recycled materials and regular...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 4, 20242 min read
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Igloo Small World Play
Winter is here and learning about igloos through small world play is a great way to learn about the snow houses. An igloo, also known as...
Yasmeen Kamrani Sallam
Jan 2, 20242 min read
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