Becoming the Teacher-Director at Stepping Stones has been an incredible learning experience. One great challenge for me is in learning how to balance both jobs of teaching and directing well. My schedule change of office hours on Monday 10.30-5.30 and Wednesday 7.30-5.30 enables longer uninterrupted time to play and learn with the children--My teacher-self likes that a lot. As the supporting teacher of Mickey Cake on Tuesdays and Bread on Thursdays I will begin by sharing some documentation and reflections on this purposeful work. In the following short clip Tara and I harmonize to a short song that she developed with the children while making bread. We sang it several times to remember the words and now we sing it every week when we make bread. Something important about this play is its visibility in adulthood. Its important for the children to know that parents and teachers can play together too; that we are all connect and that we value the contributions made by family members. In this instance a little song that is now part of our bread process. In the following video I wanted to capture the general mood of the morning in which bread-making was a part and I wanted to high-light the after-process of cleaning up after ourselves which can be quite a joyful, musical and collaborative activity. In this next video, my intent was not only to capture the real living we do around the bread table, like waiting on someone to play, feeling sad, and taking care of our brother, but also the interpretive opportunities we can explore through this medium, both linguistically by enjoying a play on words, but artistically as in Uli's representation of the caterpillar.
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