The Children Speak

10/15/2021

Will You Help Us Write the Blog?

"Tell them that I'm standing by the blue door in the outdoor classroom." -Audrey

Would you like to take a picture for the blog? "Yes. Over there." -Audrey

We are settled into our Tucker Room, and with this we want to occasionally involve the children in helping create our Friday blogs. The greater their participation, in more areas of their daily life and continuing progression at school, will only add to the enrichment of their awareness, knowledge, and authorship of what is a collective Tucker Room experience.
So here it is - our first Friday blog with the children having a direct say in what we write and share. We asked them to respond to three topic items: the blog, the book fair and classroom stories.

What is a blog?
"The blog is where you put picture from school in and then your mom and dad can look on their phones and see the pictures." -Lochie
"You read." -Lucia
"Where you put pictures of the Tucker Room." -Audrey
"Something you say." -Reed

Do you know what the book fair is?
"It has lots of books. And we sell them." -Audrey
"You just get books and stuff like that. I like books when mommy reads them. -Reed
"It's a fair with lots of books and you buy books." -Jane
"It's a place where you get books. I don't know if they're free or not, but I think they're not for free." -Jack
"I know what a book fair is. The book fair is downstairs and the books go on the bookshelves. We read books." -Violet
"Yes. It's a fair that has books." -Lucia
"The book fair is where books are about school. Like one year and another year and another year, about when you were in a classroom." -Lochie

Have you heard of classroom stories night?
"Melanie told us. It's where your parents come and we tell them what we do in the classroom." -Jack
"We already did that!" -Reed
"They came here and we didn't tell what we did ... we showed them what is in the classroom." -Lochie
"We didn't do that in the Rainey Room." -C.C.
What can we tell then about at Classroom Stories night?
"How about what we've been doing!" -C.C.