1. If you are teaching reading, plan at least one activity for your next story. Children might dramatize the whole story. Or they could act out a new ending. Or you could ask them to demonstrate the...

1. If you are teaching reading, plan at least one activity for your next story. Children might dramatize the whole story. Or they could act out a new ending. Or you could ask them to demonstrate the feelings of individual characters at turns in the plot.

2. Sing old favorite songs with children. Note which one seems the most familiar and easily sung. Try making up new words to the melody that are related to something happening in the classroom and/or to the children.

Q42;

1. Expand your own experience: Attend a concert or play, choosing a type of music with which you are unfamiliar or a kind of drama or comedy you think you probably do not like. Write a journal entry describing your response, perhaps waiting a day before doing so.

2. Talk with class members or colleagues about the varying cultures found in your classroom or center. In what ways do you see the children’s backgrounds reflected in their teacher’s art projects? Are there others you might suggest?