Dear New School West Families, I am thrilled to be starting up again leading creative movement investigations with your children. Did you know that for three years I have been coming to NSW as part of their commitment to The Hundred Languages of Children? We work with the language of movement and kinesthetic expression. Our…
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West Wing Open House 4/13
West Wing parents, mark your calendars for 4/13 Friday from 3:30-5:00 Come enjoy the West Wing classroom with presentations by your West Wing teachers regarding current work. We’ll have the classroom open without children present for you to visit areas and read documentation. There is no childcare available so if you don’t come on Fridays…
Make-up group photo for EW and WW
For anyone that missed the group photo last week there is a make up photo on Thursday March 29th @ 9:15 AM.
Wish List!
The Forest group and the Castle group are getting into costumes. Some of the children’s drawing capabilities need more information when it comes to representing their ideas of clothes on bodies. The dress form (child sized) will come in handy for sensory input and visual understanding of how a fabric lies on a body. We…
NSW Camping Trip
NSW Camping Trip Mark your calendar! The annual NSW camping trip will be on Saturday, June 2nd at the Circle X Campground. This is just a one day camping overnight trip – or you can just come for the day. Bring your own tent. Food by the campfire. Kids running around having fun. More info…
We’re Checking Heads
We found two cases of lice this afternoon and we immediately started scratching and did a thorough head check. So while you’re relaxing this evening please look for lice eggs (small and white to yellow, attached to the hair follicle), lice critters (brown to tan and in the base of the hair), and reddish, irritated skin. Check everyone…
The Curtain Group update…
Curtain Group 3-7-12 Sienna, Raven, Ophelia, Bryce K, Phoebe We used the numbers the girls had determined through the use of rulers and inch graph paper during a previous meeting as our guide for today’s work. Offering a 1:1 correspondence by formatting the scale of one square is equal to one inch, Teacher Amy guided…
March Calendar Events
MARCH EVENTS Monday, March 12th East Wing Open Discussion: Theories on death 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Location: East Wing See sign up on the door. Sunday, March 18th Light and Transparency – a workshop on children’s learning 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Location: At NSW. See blog for more info. Presented by Patricia Hunter…
AFTERNOON IN THE LIFE 3/6/2012
2012_3_7 AFTERNOON IN THE LIFE, a set on Flickr. Here are some shots from yesterday afternoon, Tuesday March 6th, inside and out. — Documentation Committee
Day In The Life, 2/14/2012, a.m.
2012_02_14_Day In The Life A.M., a set on Flickr. Click to see images from an ordinary extraordinary morning, February 14th, in both wings of our school. (Afternoon pictures coming soon!) — Documentation Committee