Happy New Year!  Now that we are back from a much needed break and seemingly all healthy, we are ready to learn new things!  It was great to see all of our children excited to be b[...]

Last spring we had a wonderful opportunity to help populate our streams with salmon. Our class, with the help of Judy Pickens, released salmon down in Fauntleroy Creek. Here is las[...]

This week we had a great time preparing for our holiday festivities. I don’t want to spoil the surprise so all i will say is that we had fun dancing, singing and working on s[...]

A way of planning curriculum based on the student’s interest and passions as well as the teacher’s. To plan an emergent curriculum requires observation, documentation, creative bra[...]

If you follow my blog, you have probably gleaned that I am very much in favor of Sir Ken Robinson and his views on education.  Read my other post here.  This is another brilliant p[...]

Getting back into the swing of things after our snow/Thanksgiving break.  Even though we missed out on our Thanksgiving celebration, the class exchanged their cards which they were[...]

Well, it was a short week last week due to the snow and Thanksgiving holiday.  We did get one day of school and the children had fun playing in the snow. [slideshow id=32][...]

Oh my, how we’ve been behind on our blogging.  With conferences behind us and the holidays ahead, we are hoping we get back on track.  We have some exciting news in the upcom[...]

We are continuing with our Fall/Thanksgiving decorations and crafts. We started the first stage of our wall mural, this time it’s going to be our “Thanksgiving fall tre[...]

This week we started our Fall and Thanksgiving projects and crafts! We made some adorable hand prints and hand shaped tracings. We are starting a new project for our wall and like [...]