EY Connect - Sept issue 2024
Good morning! 😊 I hope everyone has had a great start to the school year. I'm eager to jump back into this monthly passion project of mine as I invite educators to engage with content that inspires and advances our thinking and breathes new inquires into your teaching practice. As always, if you read something that resonates with you, share it with your colleagues, bring it to planning meetings, and extend the learning for the collective. 1 REFLECTION During the beginning weeks of school, we know that relationship building is the priority. A child's relationship to teachers and peers, but also their relationship to the physical space, and to materials old and new. Relationships are the bedrock upon which everything else is built. I was helping a K1 child with toileting last week, and he said to me "Don't talk to strangers". I replied, "Hmm.. am I a stranger?" He smiled and said "no!" Unfortunately at that time I was too busy to further the c...