Happy Spring! Thank you to everyone who brought flowers this month, Chloe, Colin, Mars, Golda, Dillon, Presley and Elliot. The children continue making beautiful arrangements for our environments. We celebrated Presley, Dylan, Roleen, and Mia’s birthdays this month. Don’t forget if you haven’t yet, please sign up to bring flowers. Have a wonderful Spring…
This week is our wonderful Dillon Ray’s last week in the Aloe Vera Group. The children are spending their last days together making special cards for Dillon to share their most enjoyable moments and what they learned from him. We are also supporting Dillon to create notes to express his feelings and remembered special moments…
Cody is at school and showing some fight which is great. He’s hanging out in the office with me so I can bathe him and dress his wounds twice a day and Cindy and I give him shots every 3 days (yes, it takes two people ha ha). Whenever I walk into a pod, the…
We have learned with our experiences over the years how powerful the environment is in speaking to our values and so when we met together in June to envision how we would redesign our spaces within mandated guidelines that divided us, the word “transparency” became our new mantra. The Reggio principle that says “The Environment…
Messaging has been a staple for all the pods this year. They’ve ‘met’ each other through notes and gifts made from curiosity and reciprocity. This culture of gifting is unique to this year of COVID restrictions. We’ve never before seen this kind of communication among children. Each pod has made gifts and sent messages and…
Upcoming Calendar Reminders Monday, March 29th through Friday, April 2nd: SCHOOL CLOSED for Spring Break Tuesday, April 6 and following: Conference Check-ins via Zoom Cilantro: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0449afa629a02-cilantro1 Dandelion: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0449afa629a02-dandelion1 Flowers brighten our West Wing spaces and provide children with multiple opportunities for exploration and investigation. Here’s the link to our SignUpGenius for classroom flowers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0449afa629a02-flower West…
Remember when we were all together and were able to share spaces? With our new way of working in pods, we’ve had to learn how to bridge our curriculum and the note writing, the treasure hunts, and the love connections through transparent walls sparked a whole new lens. We learned to shift our thinking and…
The Cilantro group has had a lot to say about the ocean. They share an awareness of ‘a mountain’ on the horizon which we believe is Catalina. They’ve identified their points of interest from the shore where they stand: Sticks Sand Hermit crabs Shells And what strikes me as ingenious in their ocean articulations is…
If I could just gather up all the good energy that filled the spaces (both inside and out) and carry it with me in a little spray bottle, I would only be a spritz away from absolute peace of mind and focus that I am so craving in my day to day. Being in…
When we look back over the last year, we recognize the emotional weight of isolation that made us long for each other, you and ‘the old days’. Your gift of two days spent in conference with Tiziana Filippini and Loretta Bertani had us reaching for ‘new days’ full of joy when we came back together…