Rainey Room B: Tuesday, February 23

Thinking about pajamas as we gradually progress with our pajama exploration with relevance to the school wide project and  our own Rainey Room B collective.

What are pajamas?

Sylvie: You wear them when it’s time to go to bed so you’re not cold.
Melanie: What is a nightgown? (discussing pajamas for our lovies).
Lucia: It’s a dress that you wear at night (a nightgown).
Sylvie: When I go to pajama day I could take Lilac with her nightgown on. I could bring…On pajama day, I could be in my pajamas and Lilac could be in her nightgown. 
Janie: It means… At night you wear it and I got some different kind of ones, I’ve got some unicorn ones.
Melanie: But why do you wear it?
Janie: Because, because you wear it at night.
Sylvie: So your clothing is not so cold before you go to bed.
Melanie: What if it’s not so cold?
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Jane: Animals don’t wear clothes! That’s crazy! Real animals don’t wear clothes, that’s crazy!
Melanie: What’s the difference (between what is being worn today and pajamas)

​"It’s not pajama day. You can’t wear pajamas to someone else’s house unless you are having a sleepover or pajama day." -Sylvie

What about Jordan? The Making of a Portrait

We had not yet traced Jordan's figure to create is portrait. So that is what we did to finish up our day! The collaborative efforts along with the attention to color, detail, and the human body, as both self and other relative to identity and empathy, will help support group cohesion, drawing development, and the above mentioned pajama project in conjunction with the aforementioned attributes: collaboration, identity, and empathy. 

The children acknowledge that Jordan had a blue shirt, black pants, and brown skin but somehow the colors got mixed up. So we persevere.

Although accuracy of color on Jordan's portrait was not evident, this was not the case with the  children's investment to the project. This was definitely visible!

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A Conversation for Another Time...

LUCIA: "How to touch the sky?" (asking Sylvie)

SYLVIE: Yeah.

​LUCIA: "How about a giant ladder?"

SYLVIE: Hey... We can make a tree house!

LUCIA: Yeah!

SYLVIE: Then we'll have a rope ladder to climb up into the tree.