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This post is my vow to update and post on the EEAL blog regularly. Not a day goes by that I don't rant about something related to early childhood education and how we need to rally for action. I need to become more organized and put that rant online! If you have read my other posts, you have seen that EEAL likes to get dirty, especially in MUD! We have recently partnered with our local AEYC (Association for the Education of Young Children) affiliate, Beach Cities AEYC and Lakeshore Learning to create a Mud Kit to accompany our Position Statement on Mud. I have uploaded a couple photos and welcome your feedback. Our goal is to distribute these with the position statement to agencies, city council members and ECE stakeholders. Do you have any ideas on other items that we should add to the kit?
recently i observed school-agers playing with clay. they wet the clay and rubbed it on their arms. it was as if the sensory experience was new to them - i realized that in our sanitized society, that perhaps they never got a chance to experience mud. while my first instinct was to say, "why are you doing that?" i let it go. it was a pain to clean up. but it was worth it.
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