Today, Miro’s grandma, Elma, came to ‘cook with children’ in the middle courtyard. She and Miro, Willow and Dashiell prepared a fruit salad and cracker snack that was served at WW lunch. Children used shaped cutters on melons, chopped apples with knives and assembled raspberries and grapes in a sweet experience at school. Thank you,…
After working together to fill the cement mixer truck with sand, Theo G. and Dashiell worked on emptying it out into a mound. First they tilted the cement mixer and allowed gravity to bring the sand out. To reach the remaining sand, they began to reach their hands and arms into the belly of the cement mixer.
Theo G.: Our skins are together. Guess what? Mommy has two different types of skin. My Mommy has two different types of skin and I say she’s colorful.
It is one of our strategies in the West Wing to work as a classroom community on, “Celebrating commonalities and differences in our lives.” In this brief exchange, the differences between Theo G.’s and Dashiell’s skin tones and the differences between Theo G. and his mother’s skin tones were simply that – differences. In a New School-West culture of “being different is normal”, differences can be celebrated as seamlessly as commonalities. -Teacher Jess
In the first week, Teacher Flora observed the children and their first interactions with the West Wing Block Area materials. Then, she engaged them: Teacher Flora: What kind of building will you build together? Juliette: It’s a big, big, big building. Madeleine: Don’t try to blow on it because if you blow on it, we’ll have to do it…
These pictures were taken a few weeks ago, and are appearing now due to a mild short-circuit in your committee blog-post guy. Have a look and enjoy! — Documentation Committee [click for slideshow, wait a moment for it to load, then click to go faster]
Click on over and see what the last weeks of the school year look like. It’s a grand tour! — Documentation Committee [click for slideshow, wait a moment for it to load, then click to go faster] 1 2 … 5 ►
After the children wake up from nap and take care of their materials, it’s become part of their routine to spend time with the turtles. Today, as a small group of children were observing the turtles, they noticed Morla was acting unusually – she was trying to swim to the surface of the water and…
It’s one of the few times when parents and children inhabit the school together en masse, like a momentarily reconstituted student body. Or something like that. A happy and poignant day in any case. Enjoy these photos from your ever-stalwart…. Documentation Committee [click for slideshow, wait for the load, then click to go faster] 1…
These kids own this place by now. And yet, check out the work, check out the learning, it’s as impressive as ever. — Documentation Committee [click for slideshow, wait a moment for it to load, then click to go faster] 1 2 … 4 ►
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Check out the slideshow below for the latest illuminating installment from the fly-on-the-wall. Remember, you can control-click these to download them, and/or ask Jona for a higher resolution version! — Documentation Committee [click for slideshow, wait a moment for loading, then click to go faster] 1 2 … 4 ►