The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Saturday 28 January 2012 Week 18: More Space Exploration – Planets Harold! Harold! Where is Harold? We shouted for Harold in hopes he could hear us. We read books and wrote in our journals. We explored visual perception and made ourselves appear …
“It all comes back to the importance of action for learning and the fundamental interrelatedness of the different parts of the human being (the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical parts) and of all human beings to one another. Academic achievement, social–emotional competence, and physical and mental health are fundamentally and …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Sunday 22 January 2012 Week 17: Kitties Explore Temperature in Space Kitten role playing continues to play a big role in our day. Occasionally a kitty needs to go to the hospital and recover. This time it was due to pollution …
Please join us for our final 2012 Parent Information Workshop: We will present information on our school and tour the classroom with our teacher. Additionally, Melody Elder, M.A. Ed, of Awakened Heart Pareneting, will moderate our discussion on the education REVOLUTION and how it comes to life in an environment …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Monday 16 January 2012 Week 16: Sunny Days in the Garden I love teaching and learning in an open classroom! While we blasted off to “Spaceland” and contemplated how water got into space and on comets, and playing comet catch, we also …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Saturday 7 January 2012 Week 15: New Year. New Plans. Dear Families, New year. New plans. This week we officially added “chair building” to the schedule. Currently it takesplace before opening meeting. Chair ships and groovy snack shacks are made and the …
From under our big tree… Sunday 1 January 2012 Week 14: Winter Shadows Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful winter break and warm holiday season to cap off 2011. I don’t know about you, but I love reflecting on the previous year and contemplating …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Sunday 11 December 2011 Week 12: Ginger Explores Cultures Week 12 began with designing and flying a kite on park day and evolved into lots of chair building. Numbers, flags, pillows (big motor), slides (big motor), studios, and boxes were added to …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… Sunday 4 December 2011 Week 12: Ginger Travels the World Dear Parent,After a long week off we have all been finding ways of reconnecting. As always, park day is a great environment for that. The students played as a whole as well …
