East Wing
Ode to Mommies: A Communal Poem
Cooking at NSW
What’s Cooking at NSW? We are hoping to have a more consistent and ongoing exploration of food and cooking take place on mornings & afternoons at NSW. Would you like to help? We would love to have parent volunteers come in and share some of their culinary talents with the children. So far this year…
Back Patio provocation!
They spent the afternoon discovering the mechanisms and how to work the tubes, pulley, and containers together. Filling the black cauldron with wet sand, proved to be extremely heavy to lift off the pulley system. The others look on with little empathy. Felix: “It’s really heavy!” Morgan: “Just do it.” Felix: “You need to help…
“What is the green thing?” Imonie
In the last two visits to the garden, the children have been caring for and cleaning the raised beds: weeding, pulling mushrooms, sweeping. After the storm, the children found more mushrooms and new weeds. When they went to pull them out, they discovered new bugs. “Let’s put the Roly Polies back in the garden!” -Xavier…
“Caterpillars have a scrunched up face like this…” -Michael C.
Working with Flora, her intern Tania facilitated an assignment using the children’s interest in animals. She brought puppets and asked the children to choose an animal and ‘become’ that animal. Easton chose a tiger, Michael C. a snake, Sarah a cat, Tyler a dog and Imonie a cheetah. Michael C. chose to use the snake…
The ‘D’ word
Life has a way of happening when you are trying to figure out what the next step should be. Little did we expect that life would bring us an opportunity to put this into practice so soon. A couple of weeks ago, Paola’s grandmother died unexpectedly and this was explained to the EW children as…
“We don’t even know because we haven’t died yet.”-Brendan
In January, the ‘Airplane Group” went to the Santa Monica Airport and Kris and Adriana captured an impromptu and theoretical dialogue about death: The teachers discussed that there was a hesitation among us as professionals about to how to support those children who are experiencing death within our community. Currently, we work with the child in a small group…
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…
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…