The East Wing is bustling with new ideas and projects. You may have noticed some familiar spaces and activities, but this year the teachers will be working with the children to explore their interests more fully. Here is an overview of what’s familiar and what’s developing in the East Wing: Friendship and connection: This year,…
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West Wing interests…
As we prepared for the new school year, the teachers observed the children during their play dates to discover their interests. We learned of their deep connection with food! We also noticed this group of children already coming into the classroom with an awareness of communication through technology like cellphones and computers. Considering that we…
“Can I have an appointment with Uma?” – Santiago
On Thursday, we welcomed a new family into our community in the West Wing: Uma Ahmed and her parents, Farooq and Priya, as well as her sister Layla. Part of our NSW culture is to make sure that everyone in our community feels welcome. A few of the strategies we use are to call the…
Celebrating Our Family Cultures April Lee (Mehana, EW) easily shares her family celebrations with NSW and thoughtfully explains our social responsibility team’s point of view: “I love the idea of thoughtfully honoring the cultural traditions of our community through personally meaningful celebrations, big and small, and seeing how they unfold with the children’s input and…
“I can support you.” -Elliot
From the very beginning, our intention as teachers has been to foster connections among children as well as to recognize and highlight when children use their own strategies to seek connections with each other. Below are the conversations that are taking place in our classroom: At the end of appointments, Rondie asked the group in…
Mi Cuerpo, YAY! -Dylan
One way to bring our community together is through shared songs and the West Wing teachers have introduced one of their favorites, “Mi Cuerpo”, to the children. It is a simple song with repeating lyrics and easy to learn. The body motions add a kinesthetic element that makes it fun. Mi cuerpo, mi cuerpo…
Contributions last week…
We had NSW graduates come back throughout the summer and this week, we had Arabelle assist the teachers from the class of 2014! In case you’re planning – we involve graduates when they are 9 years or older.
Picnic Fun!
So lovely to see a huge turnout in the park last weekend! We’re making connections left and right and are eager to see you this week at Parent Partner meeting Wednesday 9/21 for MORE FUN!
First Days
It was a lovely morning in both wings today. The East Wing children all greeted each other and explored what was new and the same while the West Wing children explored friendships, environments and systems. The teachers learned a lot about what we had set up and how to tweak it for this group. The…
The Aloha Tradition
April (Mehana’s mom, WW) offered to host a family tradition of lei making to commemorate special events. The families loved the idea and added several bouquets to the project and made leis for each graduating child. These will ceremoniously be given on graduation day to each child with great love and sweet wishes. Roleen commented…