Tag: christmas
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That pesky elf / Santa clone
in PhotographyWe don’t have the elf-on-a-shelf tradition back home (at least, not that I’m aware of), so we were a bit bemused when the kids came home from school asking where our elf was. On a whim, we took one of the Santa toys that my wife’s granny had made for her when she was a…
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Carols by candlelight in Tokai forest
Went to carols by candlelight in the forest with the girls the other evening. The sense of wonder and awe that children bring to Christmas is a joy.
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The child is made of one hundred – a poem by Loris Malaguzzi
This is a poem I came across by the founder of the Reggio Emilia approach to education, Loris Malaguzzi. The child is made of one hundred.The child has a hundred languagesa hundred handsa hundred thoughtsa hundred ways of thinkingof playing, of speaking.A hundred, always a hundredways of listeningof marvelingof lovinga hundred joys for singingand understandinga…