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| Classroom as a third techer | Hallie | - What do you want the classroom to teach? What do you want the children to learn?
- Aestethics - how does the room make you feel? Is it soft, warm, ambient, natural, and light as oppsed to heavy?
- The classroom environment should regulate children, create curiosity, and sustain attention.
- The environment should promote relationship and communication through provacations and collaboration
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| Materials | Hallie | - We should think about how we want children to use the materials. If we dont know, then they won't know.
- Limited by ample
- Creative materials that are open-ended and curious, but also motivate them to problem solve.
- Its a good sign if they are asking questions
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| Progression of materials | Hallie & Amy | - How can you prgress materials and create connecting experiences that keep their interst with the limit of safety?
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| Tid bits of wisdom | Hallie | - We should consider the flow of energy through the room and make sure there is an easy way in and out of every space
- Social exchange is essential to learning
- We should create an atmosphere of serenity and discovery
- It is dangerous to separate emotion from intelligence
- Aesthetics are a vital need - vital meaning life giving
- Aesthetics are a vibration that activate learning
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| Incoorporating new ideas into classrooms | Amy | - We do not have to reinvent the wheel. We all have access to past lab school lesson plans, including Hallie's, that can be a resource to us.
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