Jane P Perry's Writings
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Article
Mar.28.2012
Early Education and Development
Three former teaching colleagues at the University of California's Harold E. Jones Child Study Center discuss an interpretative approach to child observation and assessment and how this approach was developed (1970s–2005) within this lab school's early childhood education setting. With teaching practice shaped and driven by a tradition of teacher research,...
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Poem
Feb.06.2009
1966
10 years old
Saturday, January 1
Tried to make a house out of logs. Logs kept tumbling down.
Sunday, January 2
Fun playing with my dress ups.
Monday, January 3
First day of school. I was moved up in reading.
Friday, January 7
Got new sneakers white pointed!
Sunday, January 16
I can't skate on slippery ice.
Tuesday, January 18
Brought radio to school...
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Article
Nov.03.2008
Unpublished Manuscript
Children just need to be outside to let off steam, right? Should we see the playground as a break from learning, or as part of our planned classroom? From the children's perspective, whether we recognize it or not, the playground is most definitely part of the learning environment.
The playground offers a variety of activities and areas to stimulate...
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Article
Nov.03.2008
Teachers of young children often collect dictated narrations as a strategy to elicit a child's developing linguistic capacity while making sense of their world. For example, a teacher will ask a child to draw in a journal and the teacher will write, in the child's own words, what the picture is about, or a child will bring in a family photo for the classroom and...
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Oct.31.2008
1. Caulking Gun
2. Fucking Ugly
3. Fungus
4. Four Tickets to Fenway
5. Fenway Park!
6. Batting Practice
7. Going to the Bleachers
8. What Seat
9. Veratek's 991
10. Sweet Caroline
11. Yuu
12. Don't Walk Him
13. Manny
14. Papelban Enters the Field
15. Wild Thing
16. The Beach
17. Everybody's Running
18. Gushing
19. Rushing
20. I'm Over At Legal
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Oct.31.2008
1. Ruby Foo's: Whipped Potatoes are Big Here
2. Ruby Foo's: She's Wearing a Wedding Band
3. Corner of 7th Avenue & 57th
4. Irish Potato Famine Memorial
5. Train from Riverdale to Grand Central Station
6. The 7:27: Be Well My Friend
7. Thursday Morning Footsteps at Grand Central Station
8. Staten Island Ferry
9. Docking
10. Trinity Church Holy Eucharist
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Poem
Oct.31.2008
The three boys crouch closely into a crevice in the sand
The oldest separates the loose dry sand from the hardened packed underlayer
He carves his brother's initials in a sand rock
As the two others bend down to blow sand powder away from the work surface
Carefully the oldest lifts out an amputated rock for each boy
The children carry their sand rocks gently...
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Short Story
Oct.30.2008
I stand naked, except for socks and sneakers, eating popcorn. Last night, milk-sweetened baby vomit dripped warmly down my back as I sat in a dark room cultivating how it aroused me. I shudder, recollecting how a friend had inadvertently made the sound of a delicate, half cry and I had laughed explosively loud and long in response.
Periodically we all find...
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Short Story
Apr.26.2008
Why the surge of activity just now after several days of unscrupulously rash banishments of initiative for the flat line of boredom? Was it the Mennonite family holiday greeting which turned my eyes from turpitude?
Father continues to compose hymns during his long commute. Mother keeps bread on the table, sourdough recently, and has taken up mitten knitting in...
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About Jane
"Promoting independent outdoor play is especially important when children's lives are increasingly regulated by the company of adults. . . . Outdoor play settings may be the one place where children can independently orchestrate their own negotiations...
Causes Jane Perry Supports
Pogo Park at www.pogopark.org, Alameda County Community Food Bank Museum of...