This article was featured as a resource for our Parent Teachers. Our intention was to help our PTs support the Four Foundational Pillars of Play and help us create opportunities for our sprouts to meet their full capacity for knowing themselves. Read the excerpt here: When children play, design, explore, …
Enrollment Events for 2014-15 School Year The evening begins at 7:00pm Please join the TKG Community for an evening of learning and knowing. You’ll hear about our school, why it is different, and how it works. Meet teachers and families and connect with the greater community that is making a …
In Humane Education News Our weekly newsletter features resources for our community. We try to feature articles and features that help us engage multiple intelligences. This one is from Institute for Humane Education (thanks Marsha Rakestraw): 5 Assumptions We Should Try to Make About Everyone My mom has been a …
Is Food A Race Issue? Oakland’s People’s Grocery Examines Connection At Commonwealth Club By Mehroz Baig There are many discussions about race and demographics—how race factors into crime and incarceration, for example, or race as a factor in employment and unemployment. However, one subject that may not obviously be tied …
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn There are some very important discussions going on in meetings lately! Voices are being tested, heard…we are deep in negotiations about caterpillar’s name and the daily offerings and navigating our own choices…While it may seem insignificant in other …
Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known. – Loris Malaguzzi We welcomed a new student this week…as one of our students said, “We are already friends.” This week’s feature is reflection …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 6 October 2012 Week 5 News & Information A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him. ~Pablo Neruda Hello Families! What do you count? …
Counting Collections by Julie Kern Schwerdtfeger and Angela Chan Lakeisha has lined up paintbrushes across a table and is rolling them one by one to the side. Tyler and Auveen are wrapping pencils into bundles. Maya is organizing toy kangaroos, and her partner Cody is drawing a picture of how …
The Knowing Garden: From under our big tree… 11 February 2012 Week 19: Bears Go Camping Happy Day! Park day was full of walking and exploring. We climbed our favorite trees, found “clues” like feathers, cones, “skunk poop”, a blue bean bag in a tree, and nut looking seed. Some …
