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My portable story circle classroom

Our story circles are usually "a movable feast". As I've mentioned in another post , story circle can happen practically everywhere: indoors or outdoors, online or in person. The location and the method of delivery can also change as the circumstances change: the weather is nice? Let's move outside! Flu season and lots of kids sick at home? Let's have a virtual meeting! This is why I find it very helpful to have a handy "portable story circle classroom", to take with me to whatever location we're meeting at this week. Artist and art educator Nona Orbach, the author of "The Good Enough Studio: Art Therapy Through the Prism of Space, Matter, and Action", describes  here  how in the times of covid lockdowns and restrictions she helped her students to organize their own individual tiny studios with some paper and pencil cases. I found Orbach's story really inspirational: you don't need a big well stocked studio to create art. You also d