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 …
When It’s Done With Adults, The Gender Stereotyping We Do With Kids Looks As Ridiculous As It Is Seen on UPWORTHY.COM As parent teachers, we want to stay out of the way of our students as much as possible. One way to do that is to avoid judgement or …
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) …
“Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.” ― Mark Twain For this newsletter, I will break from the traditional relating of subject specific learning to let you know about some of the shifts in our culture of relating to each other and how our learning space and time has transformed in …
by ALIX SPIEGEL On October 3, 1955, the Mickey Mouse Club debuted on television. As we all now know, the show quickly became a cultural icon, one of those phenomena that helped define an era. What is less remembered but equally, if not more, important, is that another transformative cultural event …
You are invited to join us for our next Enrollment Information Night on Thursday, February 21, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM . We will meet at our classroom at St.Andrew’s Church in Redondo Beach and we will also be scheduling visits/tours. Registration is available here. Start your 2013-14 school …
“If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.” -Howard Gardner What is a Tangram? See if you can find the discover the clues hidden in this week’s message! Also – please …
Click here for the original post… PERISCOPE INDEX to make at home! Frank Oppenheimeer, the physicist and founder of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, was fascinated by mirrors. He was very influential in making science exhibits fun and interactive. Many of his exhibits used mirrors. Periscopes use mirrors …
TOMORROW – Saturday August 4th! TKG will be hosting one of our world famous book sales at the Torrance Farmers Market beginning at 9am. Come early because we have children’s, cooking, gardening, art and best-seller fiction. Non-fiction, reference, limited edition also available. Book and Cash Donations will also be accepted …
