2024-09-27 Meeting notes

15 mins

Conferences/Portfolios

Everyone

15 mins

Planning Outdoor Classroom

Everyone

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n65X8uvQvIKFvenOoaQkQj7GWNk4gQEd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=103566683956803998158&rtpof=true&sd=true

20 mins

Soap, Kaymbu, Materials, Observers

Adriana + Erin

• Let Adriana know if you need more wall or hand dispensers for new soap

• New tags are on Kaymbu, send descriptions to admin to add for clarity

• Donated materials will be in hallway, please go through them and find a good place for them to live

• Review of observer expectations - let admin know if observers are not following directions

5 mins

Playground Workday and Fab Lab Collab Meeting

Amy

• Playground workday is Saturday, October 5th, at 8:30am-11:30am

• Fab Lab Collab meeting is October 15th @5:30 pm

50 mins

Italian Approaches to ECE

Sarah and Becca

• The image of the child different by cultures

• Montessori materials used to teach discipline

  • They have a determined place

  • Only one copy of materials - respect

  • Intelligence activities - there is a difference between creative use and misuse of energy

  • Trays contain all of the materials needed for activity

• Practical life - they give children a chance to practice practical activities, like velcro and buttons, but vertically not horizontally

  • Cleaning materials

• The presentation of materials - quiet, intentional, engaging, expressive, specific

• The Three Step Lesson

  • I do - presentation of materials (introduction)

  • We do - the lesson (identification)

  • You do - verification of the lesson (remembering)

• Takeaways: slowing down, emphasizing capability, respecting materials, presentation of materials and lessons