Cheers to the Holidays SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15TH 6-8pm BARSHA WINE in MANHATTAN BEACH The Knowing Garden, now in its 4th year, is happy to host our 1st Annual Holiday Party & Fundraiser. Your donations and purchases will help us meet the operational costs of our start-up school.If you trust that creativity …
The Knowing Garden Community School Presents A community event with Susan Peterson, author of FUN and Educational PLACES to Go With Kids in Southern CA Thursday, November 6th 7:30-8:30pm @ THE LITTLE GYM –Torrance 21203 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503 Purchase Tickets Here! Bring your children to enjoy the supervised …
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ― L.M. Montgomery Dear Community Member, We started our first week off with a warm tropical gathering at South Park that got us interacting with games, scooters and a pillow fight! It was one …
Community Resource – The Whole Child We picked this article, by one of our favorite experts – Alfie Kohn (a TKG reading list regular) because we know our students won’t learn without being invested in the process. We know some want to jump right in and we know that it …
How Video Games Are Getting Inside Your Head — And Wallet by STEVE HENN @ Waldorf Today Max Kelmon, 13, has his own little version of a man cave in Palo Alto, Calif. Behind the family kitchen in a converted garage, he has an Xbox, a big-screen TV, headphones and …
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…” ― Isaac Asimov Wishing you a wonderful week in preparation for a spring break! Notable Notes This is a week of trying new things! Beginning Wednesday, upstairs …
TKG offers weekly tips and tools to our parents and parent teachers in order to support their teaching, at home and at school, experience. This resource features: 5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students Many would agree that for inquiry to be alive and well in a classroom (or at home) …
The Missing Context For Parenting One of the 5 tenets influencing the TKG environment is The Whole Child – to us, that means that the cognitive, social and emotional well-being of a child are connected and intertwined. We also know that students’ parents or closest caregivers, are the first and …
From the BRILLIANT BLOG: The Importance of “Talking Math” With Kids Monday, January 13, 2014 Do you speak math with your kids? Many of us feel completely comfortable talking about letters, words and sentences with our children—reading to them at night, helping them decode their own books, noting messages on …
