Pronouns, self-expression and much sunny outdoor play
/We're having a delightful Friday today. We spent the first portion of the morning inside reading some of our favorite books about gender identity and self-expression. At the snack table (and lunch table yesterday), we revisited which pronouns feel good to us. And at circle time today, we re-read Neither, by Airlie Anderson. This book is beloved by friends at school. Today, we thought about what a world that only existed in blue and yellow would feel like. We thought about how much we’d miss if we lived in such a binary world of only two colors. Friends were excited to consider all of the other colors that we would miss in our world… calling out Purple! Red! Orange! etc. We then considered the idea of how we and others feel about their gender inside. We thought about the idea that some people feel like girls, some people feel like boys, and some people may feel like both or neither. We decided that the best way to know how someone feels is to ask them.
After reading Neither, we moved on to our transition Jump Song. For the last month friends have enjoyed choosing if they want to pretend to be some kind of creature/animal/superhero etc. as they jump. Today we added an additional consideration: Which pronouns feel good to you? Which pronouns best express you? We then recorded today’s pronoun choice on our dry erase board. We’ll be adding this to our jump song tradition daily.
Enjoy the weekend!
Jen, Amy and Mary
