Birthdays This week the Dandelions celebrated Spencer’s 4th birthday. Happy birthday, Spencer! Spencer’s parents, Barbara and Justin, as well as Spencer’s baby brother, Skyler, joined the group on Zoom to read Spencer’s birthday book: Winnie the Pooh. The children loved hearing the story of how Pooh got stuck and then unstuck from the hole in…
This week we celebrated love in the East Wing culminating in a party on Friday. We spent the week talking about love, creating representations of love and expressing our thoughts about love. We are grateful to find small moments to add joy and excitement to our year. Thank you for your contributions and helping us…
Upcoming Calendar Reminders Monday, February 15th: SCHOOL CLOSED for Presidents’ Day Friday, March 5th & Monday, March 8th: SCHOOL CLOSED for West Coast Collaborative Reggio Conference with Teachers In case anyone still has the remnants of the original short NSW calendar sent last spring, we have also changed two days that were intended to be…
It takes practice to understand that each person has a unique point of view. What one person sees and what feels true to them may differ from someone else, and yet that doesn’t make them wrong. Perspectives can be broadened when minds are open to different ways of seeing. To support this, we decided to…
Birthdays On Monday, the Dandelions celebrated Evyn’s 4th birthday, which was on January 24th. In the New School-West tradition of sharing a birthday book with the community, Evyn brought in a couple of her favorite books — Pirate Pups and The Sneetches — for us to read at Morning Circle. Before we started reading, we…
As we planned to relaunch our identity exploration, we gathered inspiration from our professional development work on diversity with Mariama Richards. Mariama, one of the parents of the Cilantro group and the Associate Head of School at Crossroads, introduced Rudine Sims Bishop’s essay, “Windows, Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors.” Bishop explains how children can see…
Here is what we did in the month of January, enjoy!! Basils: Aloes:
Hello East Wing families, We would like to say thank you to everyone who brought flowers this month. Everly, Elliot, Mira, Levi, Dillon and Mason. The children truly enjoy creating bouquets for our spaces. Please check out the sign up genius (flowers) if you would like to sign up. We hope you enjoy the images…
After noticing the Dandelion children’s interest in role-playing as doctors during imaginative play, we introduced a wooden doctor’s kit into our indoor House Area, along with a couple of new Bitty Baby dolls. We then observed, curious to see how these new materials might facilitate the roles that the children take on, the ideas that…
Upcoming Calendar Reminders Monday, February 15th: SCHOOL CLOSED for Presidents’ Day Friday, March 5th & Monday, March 8th: SCHOOL CLOSED for West Coast Collaborative Reggio Conference with Teachers In case anyone still has the remnants of the original short NSW calendar sent last spring, we have also changed two days that were intended to be…