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Journal Article
What We Talk About Grows: The Critter Count
2025
Overview
Aimed at increasing children's (and adults') attention to the animals we share our city with, it is part of a larger effort to foster children's solidarity with the natural world. During my first couple of months at Newtowne, I noted that children talked about their nature sightings in Cambridge: A paper wasp nest across the street from school; really big leaves from a sycamore tree; a spider in the Purple Fish classroom. During their studio time, children in the Green Dragonfly and Blue Otter classrooms helped make data collection boards that were posted around the school. An Ebb and Flow of Sightings After an initial flurry of posts by children, families, and faculty, there was a noticeable drop-off in activity on the data collection boards.
