Makers are all around us. You don’t need to buy anything to be a maker. STEM is more than technology! CLICK Here to RSVP to the Maker Fair! Presenters and attendees are welcome. There will be hands-on making for the whole family. Sat Jan 28 from 9 – 12pm 301 …
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Writing Changes the World Writing is a powerful way to share our thoughts, ideas, feelings, and knowledge. When we write, we have the ability to create, …
Redwoods Newsletter: 9 to 11 year old students “It’s not that I’m so smart, but it’s just that I stick with the problems longer.” —Albert Einstein Redwoods Class Begins Year 2 With New Collaborators It’s been an eventful, busy, exciting first couple of weeks in the Redwoods class! All the students …
Community Newsletter Week #1: Sept 6 – 9 “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Welcome everybody and congratulations on the first week …
“I guess you could call it a “failure”, but I prefer the term “learning experience”.” ― Andy Weir, The Martian Hello! Our fieldtrip to the Columbia Space Center in Downey was…mind blowing. There were so many times that students and adults could be heard murmuring, “Whoa!” “No way!” “I’ve learned more today …
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi We are Explorers As mathematicians we have been working on “Rainbow to Ten” and finding all the number combinations that make ten. Through art, games, and fun hands-on activities we are starting to …
“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.” ― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Innovation Adventures on the Horizon We have been doing a lot of thinking about Social Justice, one of our school values, as it relates to the establishment of the United States, the Civil rights movement and in current events, with a …
Try to broaden your ideas of what our students are capable of—besides math and reading—this year. And just for fun…look at this list checklist from a 1979 child-rearing series: Can your child “draw and color and stay within the lines of the design being colored?” Of course. Can she count “eight to ten …
“If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only …
