In our constant catching up with technology, we have decided that Ipads are the way to go for documenting the classroom. Our cameras are breaking Iphones look too much like teachers are texting in the classroom Our Flip Video cameras are shorting out and phasing out… Can you donate your Ipad 2 to NSW if you’re…
Journals
Creative Movement
Dear New School West Families, I am thrilled to be starting up again leading creative movement investigations with your children. Did you know that for three years I have been coming to NSW as part of their commitment to The Hundred Languages of Children? We work with the language of movement and kinesthetic expression. Our…
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…
NSW Camping Trip
NSW Camping Trip Mark your calendar! The annual NSW camping trip will be on Saturday, June 2nd at the Circle X Campground. This is just a one day camping overnight trip – or you can just come for the day. Bring your own tent. Food by the campfire. Kids running around having fun. More info…
We’re Checking Heads
We found two cases of lice this afternoon and we immediately started scratching and did a thorough head check. So while you’re relaxing this evening please look for lice eggs (small and white to yellow, attached to the hair follicle), lice critters (brown to tan and in the base of the hair), and reddish, irritated skin. Check everyone…
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…
AFTERNOON IN THE LIFE 3/6/2012
2012_3_7 AFTERNOON IN THE LIFE, a set on Flickr. Here are some shots from yesterday afternoon, Tuesday March 6th, inside and out. — Documentation Committee
Day In The Life, 2/14/2012, a.m.
2012_02_14_Day In The Life A.M., a set on Flickr. Click to see images from an ordinary extraordinary morning, February 14th, in both wings of our school. (Afternoon pictures coming soon!) — Documentation Committee
It’s Monday
It’s Monday It’s Monday, February 27th, 2012, and I’m peeking my head out from this sea of yellow applications cards (please save me!) to update you on things to come: Letters for the new school year will be going out in the mail by March 5th. It’s been another grueling process as so many of you…
Griffin’s a Big Brother! Welcome Ellis!
Ellis Page Scharf was born on Friday, Feb. 17 (exactly a week overdue) at 7:01 am, weighing in at 9lbs. 1 oz. and 21.25 inches. Griffin loves his baby sister a ton. He’s by her side first thing in the morning and the first question out of his mouth when he returns home is “where…