A Flamingo!

Kailyn has a deep affinity for animals, and at the playdough table, she often talks about reindeer and flamingos. This day she sculpted the playdough into a T shape, on top of a heart. Then she bent one arm of the T down. "It's a flamingo!" she declared. "See? That's its one leg, and there is its head bending over!"
Kailyn's representational thinking is evident as she executes her ideas in different forms.

"One of Three"

The teachers attended a continuing education workshop on math and young children, and fell in love with the book One of Three by Angela Johnson, thinking of how much Kailyn would love it! It reminded us of her and her two sisters who are so important to her.

Turtle Stories

"One day I was trying again and again and again. And then Julian was turning into something like a donosaur, not a bear any more. Matthew was just standing there, waiting for a person to go by. And then a bus was coming and the peoples got on and then the monster got on and then come letters. And then came Carol, a monster. And then him eat him up! And the guinea pigs was still staying there. The monster didn't see the guinea pigs cause they were hiding in their igloo. And then there came a lot of bears, and the monster didn't find the Little Frogs. And then Robby and Maggie and Davie and Carol and Matthew and David and Breezy were both hiding, and me! And then the monster went away. And then they went back, and then came the hunters. "