Coffee and Croissants and Champagne and a Fine April Breeze Through the Weber’s Open Door With Roleen. A wonderful and typically enlightening and validating gathering occurred Wednesday morning. Has anyone mentioned the laughter at these “Coffee’s”? There’s a lot of it. New School Westers are some funny folks, that’s the truth. Come for the coffee,…
Journals
“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…
Notes from Kindergarten Night 4/10/12
It was another great Kindergarten Night with a lot of valuable information. In two hours, we were able to put some meaning behind a process that can seem very daunting. Tanya Anton, founder of GoMamaGuide.com and author of “Westside Guide to Public Elementary Schools,” is an expert in the research, and was here to begin our…
New Investigations
Hi all, As you already know, the WW is exploring yellow and Katherine and Ivana are cooking with all the children in the middle courtyard. They all need your help! Bring all things yellow to the West Wing this week – drop them off on top of the cubbies in the WW. Then mosey on…
Upcoming Coffee with Roleen (4/18) and notes from last CwR (3/15)
Coffee with Roleen 4/18/12 09:30am-11:30am Kara Weber 764 Nowita Pl Venice, CA 90291 (310) 902-2915 —————– The following is just a snippet of the conversations we had at our last Coffee With Roleen on March 15th. We will meet again on Wednesday, April 18th, from 9:30 to 11:00. Look for sign ups on the door:…
Yellow makes me feel happy. – Deia
Yoli took the children through the color yellow kinesthetically: “Close your eyes. What do the colors red, orange, pink and yellow remind you of? Take it in with your brain cells and let it touch your heart.” The week before Spring Break, Sam and the West Wing teachers pulled the color yellow from the warm…
Cooking With Katherine and Ivana
Every week, Ivana and Katherine will introduce taste pairings. This week on Wednesday, they will make a Caprese Salad: basil, mozarella and olive oil. They will add items like capers, lemon, lime, purple onion as the week goes on. Please sign up or talk to Katherine or Ivana about supplying the ingredients: Basil Olive Oil Large tomatoes…
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…
WW Parent Teacher Conferences
Sign up near the sign in sheet to meet with your teacher and studio teacher for parent/teacher conferences. If there is no time listed that works for you, please contact your teacher directly and set up a meeting.