TKG LISTEN: “Creative Schools” by Sir Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica (BOOK CLUB)

Welcome Back to TKG Book Club! This is an on-going now and then series… We are reading CREATIVE SCHOOLS by Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica . Buy the book via our SMILE link on our website: http://www.knowinggarden.dreamhosters.com. Thursday 11 Feb at 6:30pm The event is open to our entire community …

“From under our big tree” Newsletter: #5 – 5 to 7 Class (11 Oct 2015)

“I think you cannot mess up art.” – Harriette Wardwell What an exciting week!  We have had our first official parent teachers in the classroom, we are becoming more and more independent, our caterpillars arrived, we made our own playdough and then created apples for our backyard plans. The playdough …

TKG KNOW: Kids Get Enough Tech Outside of School—Shouldn’t the Classroom Offer Them Something Different?

Whole Child & Family Resource Each week, in our weekly newsletter to parents, we offer information, resources, thought-provoking articles to help us keep our neurons firing. This article, was selected to focus our attention on how much screen we want in the classroom. At TKG, we understand that technology has a …

TKG KNOW: What Kids Should Know About Their Own Brains (Mind/Shift)

Here is a new Parent-Teacher resource to add to your tool box: Some elementary school students may have a limited understanding of the brain and how it functions, believing it to be something like “a container for storing memories and facts.”  Brain function and development are important values at TKG …