Lisa Murphy on Play Episode 6

Today we're covering chapters 14 and 15 from Lisa Murphy on Play: The Foundation of Children's Learning by Lisa Murphy. In chapter 14, "Make Time Each Day to...OBSERVE," we discuss incorporating the five senses into all the activities you do with children. We cover the many ways you can explore through touch, including a plethora of ideas for sensory bins. Lisa goes into the importance of human touch, and how devastating it is that many programs discourage the staff from touching students at all. We cover the "mute" sense, smell, which is so hard to describe in words but is intimately linked to memory. Lisa says your room should be filled with beautiful smells like coffee, cinnamon, cookies, and vanilla, rather than cleaning products. We discuss observing through listening, and Lisa gives us ideas for activities like, "Listen, what's that sound?" We cover taste, including letting kids taste different foods if they're interested, encouraging families to send leftovers to school, having picnics, and more. And of course, we cover observing through sight. Lisa writes about how to decorate a classroom to make it visually pleasing for your students, how to encourage observation with and without words, and setting up experiments for your students to observe and discuss. Chapter 15 is "Make Time Each Day to...READ." We discuss the fact that reading should go on at all times of the day, in all areas of the school. Not just in the reading corner or during circle time. Lisa describes how to pick books for your program and how to teach children to respect them. And above all else, she tells us that if we want children to love to read, they have to see us reading. Enjoy this episode!

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