This aspect of humanness is where we understand love and joy.
Emotional-Heart
This principle is what we use our reflective planning cycle to do. It is how we follow the children's inquiries and improve our teaching.
Reflective practice.
This park is along the Bedford highway. And includes ponds, streams, fallen logs and long hiking trails.
Hemlock ravine.
This is the step when you start doing things, add new learning materials or put up documentation.
Act
Who is the person who shared international and universal play opportunities for children. We learned from her in the gym.
Kudzi.
This core value is about how we influence and are influenced by the natural world and each other.
Reciprocity
This is how we make space fore all people and make sure that our learning environment provides a multitude of options and adaptations to ensure a rich learning experience.
This park is on main street Dartmouth, and includes a basketball court, a river/stream, and a swing set.
The climbing playground.
This is the time when you ask for the opinions of your co-workers or families, to get insight and different perspectives on what the children are doing and thinking about.
Reflect with others.
We say this everyday to show gratitude and respect to the Mi'kmaq people who have preserved and shared this land with us settlers.
Land acknowledgement
This aspect of humanness is the easiest to show and exercise. It is shown when we climb trees, run fast, and even get a scratch on a thorn.
Physical,(body)
This principle is linked to trust and communication. It is what we need to understand children and to serve them and their families in the most respectful and impactful ways.
Relationships.
This park is in Sackville. We have not yet gone there but it has long hiking trails and a lake.
Second lake trail.
This is the first step of the Reflective planning cycle. And we as ECEs are doing this constantly everyday throughout our careers.
Observe and listen.
Name five things we thank people for bringing to class in our gratitude statement.
Check the list
This level of interaction is the first and most basic. We begin to develop this before we are born and cannot disconnect from it throughout our lives.
Self
This is where our curriculum is practiced. It can include indoor and outdoor spaces.
Learning environments.
This park is Irene's favorite, it has a duck pond, tennis courts and we played our first game of sardines there.
The far far away park.
This is the final step before we start our next cycle of reflective planning. It is where we check in to see how the children's work has changed and evolved. Have they answered their original question?
Reflect on next steps.
Check the list.
This core value of Netukulimk is the way we can show honor and appreciation for the earth provides.
Respect
This is the basis of our the curriculum we teach as ECEs. It must be voluntary, fun, self motivated, and ever evolving.
Play-based learning.
This is my favorite park, it includes a giant rock for climbing, a gazebo, a community garden, cliffs for howling, short hiking trails and train tracks.
The Oaks.
Plan Responses.
This is the magazine in which I have published the Red dress article, and next month I am publishing another article about Netukulimk.
Outdoor play magazine.