“Be in beta. Do things badly. Abandon perfectionism. Following this advice can seem nearly impossible when pitted against our identity. But when we allow ourselves to go into the rapid iteration of trial and error, like a child learning to walk, the feel-good neurological response just may charm away the …
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 …
Weekly Newsletter #7 – 5 to 7 Class “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi It feels like every year about this time some students begin getting silly with the idea of having no teachers. Usually they talk about how they would mess …
“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.” ― Deepak Chopra Don’t forget! We have a field trip to UCLA’s Fowler Museum this Friday. Also, we have our monthly parent meeting on Nov 5 – this is a parent participation event. Special note! Grapes …
“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 …
The Knowing Garden From under our big tree… 20 September 2015 Weekly Newsletter #2 – Community-Wide “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Dear Community Member, Home-school folders will be given to your children this week. For returning families, we called them …
This article appears as a PT RESOURCE. We curate a wide variety of tools and ideas to help support the parents who work in our classroom – so that they can be empowered to develop deep relationships with students and work in partnership with our teachers. *** Are there blow-outs …
The Knowing Garden is proud to announce that we will open our third classroom, for students ages 9 to 11, this Fall. Our founding students, along with some new colleagues, are set to break ice and sail on toward extending their academic endeavors and community involvement. Magdalena Garcia, will walk …
Can Perseverance Be Taught? This was featured as a Parent Teacher resource in Weekly Newsletter Week 19. Each newsletter offers a tip, tool or research to help parents who work in the classroom feel more grounded in their classroom experience. “This question is motivated by two everyday intuitions, both of …
