The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter

Author : Vivian Gussin PALEY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041860
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter written by Vivian Gussin PALEY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative social play that surrounds him? The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jason-the loner and outsider-and of his ultimate triumph and homecoming into the society of his classmates. As we follow Jason's struggle, we see that the classroom is indeed the crucible within which the young discover themselves and learn to confront new problems in their daily experience. Vivian Paley recreates the stage upon which children emerge as natural and ingenious storytellers. She supplements these real-life vignettes with brilliant insights into the teaching process, offering detailed discussions about control, authority, and the misuse of punishment in the preschool classroom. She shows a more effective and natural dynamic of limit-setting that emerges in the control children exert over their own fantasies. And here for the first time the author introduces a triumvirate of teachers (Paley herself and two apprentices) who reflect on the meaning of events unfolding before them.

Author : Trisha Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317631757
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories written by Trisha Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and fantasy play engage all young children and help them to draw connections and make sense of the world. MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Stories are tried, tested and proven to have a significant impact on children’s literacy and communication skills, their confidence and social and emotional development. Based on the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley, this book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to using this approach with young children. Covering all aspects of the approach, Artistic Director Trisha Lee shows you how you can introduce Helicopter Stories to children for the first time, scribing their tales and then bring their ideas to life by acting them out. Full of anecdotes and practical examples from a wide range of settings, the book includes: Clear guidelines and rules for scribing children’s stories, creating a stage and acting out stories How to deal with taboos and sensitive issues in children’s stories How to involve children who are unwilling to speak or act Supporting children with English as an Additional Language Links to show how the approach supports children’s holistic development Providing an accessible guide to an approach that is gaining international recognition, and featuring a foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley, this book will be essential reading for all those that want to support children’s learning in a way that is fun, engaging and proven to work.

Author : Elizabeth Fensham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408826267
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helicopter Man written by Elizabeth Fensham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete's dad is being pursued by a secret organisation and both their lives are in danger. That's why they never stay in the same place long, and always stay out of sight. Pete knows he leads an unusual life for a twelve year old boy, but he's never dared to ask questions before. Now he needs some answers. He's clever, he starts to piece the scraps of information together, but he isn't prepared for the truth.

Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041828
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kindness of Children written by Vivian Gussin Paley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paley observes the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy, who is strapped into a wheelchair, wearing a helmet, and barely able to speak. A predicament arises, and the children's response--simple and immediate--offers Paley the purest evidence of kindness she has ever seen. In subsequent encounters, the Teddy story draws forth other tales of impulsive goodness from Paley's listeners. Just so, it resonates through this book as one story leads to another--taking surprising turns, intersecting with the narrative unfolding before us, and illuminating the moral meanings that children may be learning to create among themselves. Paley's journey takes us into the different worlds of urban London, Chicago, Oakland, and New York City, and to a close-knit small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her own story connects those of children from nursery school to high school, and circles back to her elderly mother, whose experiences as a frightened immigrant girl, helped through a strange school and a new language by another child, reappear in the story of a young Mexican American girl. Thus the book quietly brings together the moral life of the very young and the very old. With her characteristic unpretentious charm, Paley lets her listeners and storytellers take us down unexpected paths, where the meeting of story and real life make us wonder: Are children wiser about the nature of kindness than we think they are?

Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417615
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can’t Say You Can’t Play written by Vivian Gussin Paley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who of us cannot remember the pain and humiliation of being rejected by our classmates? However thick-skinned or immune to such assaults we may become as adults, the memory of those early exclusions is as palpable to each of us today as it is common to human experience. We remember the uncertainty of separating from our home and entering school as strangers and, more than the relief of making friends, we recall the cruel moments of our own isolation as well as those children we knew were destined to remain strangers. In this book Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable fairy tale into her narrative description. Paley introduces a new rule—“You can’t say you can’t play”—to her kindergarten classroom and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as those who do the rejecting. One child, objecting to the rule, says, “It will be fairer, but how are we going to have any fun?” Another child defends the principle of classroom bosses as a more benign way of excluding the unwanted. In a brilliant twist, Paley mixes fantasy and reality, and introduces a new voice into the debate: Magpie, a magical bird, who brings lonely people to a place where a full share of the sun is rightfully theirs. Myth and morality begin to proclaim the same message and the schoolhouse will be the crucible in which the new order is tried. A struggle ensues and even the Magpie stories cannot avoid the scrutiny of this merciless pack of social philosophers who will not be easily caught in a morality tale. You Can’t Say You Can’t Play speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs. Is exclusivity part of human nature? Can we legislate fairness and still nurture creativity and individuality? Can children be freed from the habit of rejection? These are some of the questions. The answers are to be found in the words of Paley’s schoolchildren and in the wisdom of their teacher who respectfully listens to them.

Author : Harriet Ziefert
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402717086
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Wish Santa Would Come by Helicopter written by Harriet Ziefert and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxie wishes Santa Claus would come by helicopter so he could spend some time with Santa.

Author : Vivian Gussin PALEY
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041801
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wally’s Stories written by Vivian Gussin PALEY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This remarkable book is delightful to read and rewarding to ponder. It is the kind of book a teacher quotes to friends, shares with colleagues, and uses as a source of working ideas and inspiration.' --The Elementary School Journal.

Author : Penny Williams
Publisher : Grace-Everett Press
ISBN 13 : 0991617819
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boy Without Instructions written by Penny Williams and published by Grace-Everett Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Best Seller on Amazon! Most books on ADHD don't dare expose the genuine grit of the moment-by-moment peaks and valleys of this special parenthood -- the gut-wrenching, crying on the bathroom floor, feeling like you're losing your mind truth of the matter that is learning to successfully parent a child with ADHD. Boy Without Instructions: Surviving the Learning Curve of Parenting a child with ADHD changes that. Williams shares her unfiltered thoughts and emotions during her progression through this learning curve during this harrowing ride. Right before your eyes, this initially grief-stricken momma transforms from obsessed-with-ADHD control-freak and helicopter mom to optimistic and (mostly) confident parent of a child who happens to have ADHD. Boy Without Instructions validates your grief and guilt, yet reveals that it's truly possible to craft a (mostly) joy-filled life for your child with ADHD, yourself, and your family.

Author : Steven James Petruccio
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486421469
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helicopters Stickers written by Steven James Petruccio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add pizzazz to any flat surface with 12 accurate images of helicopters, including the Blackhawk, Bell Cobra, Mariner, Bell 206 Jet Ranger, Boeing CH-47D Chinook, and others.

Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613024X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys and Girls written by Vivian Gussin Paley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations, stories, playacting, and scuffles are interwoven with Paley’s observations and accounts of her vain attempts to alter their stereotyped play. Thirty years later, the superheroes and princesses are still here, but their doll corners and block areas are fast disappearing from our kindergartens. This new edition of Paley’s classic book reignites issues that are more important than ever for a new generation of students, parents, and teachers.