The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 19 February 2012 Week 21: Kitty Builders Happy President’s Day! Park day was full or sprinkles and sunshine. We spent time in the tree house, exploring the pond, thinking about what makes the water look green, watching ducks, crows, hummingbirds, and others we …
From Want to Prepare Your Kids for the Singularity? Read Jonathan Mugan’s The Curiosity Cycle by Aaron Saenz on singularityhub.com In the future your children won’t just be competing against other children, they’ll be pitted against robots and computers too. What’s a parent to do? Teach them about the best …
New private school in Redondo Beach eschews grades, testing By Rob Kuznia Staff Writer A group of parents has launched a new private elementary school in Redondo Beach that eschews grades and standardized testing and promotes nature-based play by having students meet one day a week outdoors. Later this …
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 Washington Post Why community schools are part of the answer By Valerie Strauss If there was a hearing that the D.C. Council should not have allowed to be cancelled at the last minute, as happened last week, it would be on this: creating community schools. Why? Because community schools …
by Peter Gray, An excerpt from Psychology Today In the spring of 2008, Lenore Skenazy, a resident of Queens in New York City, left her 9-year-old son off at Bloomingdale’s in midtown Manhattan, in the middle of a sunny Sunday, gave him a handful of quarters, $20 for emergencies, a …
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 …
Week 10: Travel & Transporation Evolves… Week 9’s topic may have stated “Transportation and Travel” but ultimately we learned most about each other and how we communicate. We learned that some falls are silly because we are being “clumsy kitties,” while other falls really hurt. With each unique situation we …
