Monthly Archives: April 2019

Reflective Journalling with Marina Dempster

    Today we welcomed Marina Dempster for a workshop on journalling in Upper Elementary. This is a part of a series of exercises that we hope will expand capacity for self-reflection and awareness. She used a variety of techniques, … Continue reading

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Justification for Skipping Math to Cut and Paste Today:

“Find out who your children are. Really get to know them and find out what their passions are, what they love, what they care about. If you find out what they care about, and then build curriculum to that, or … Continue reading

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Ghana!

  Thank you for opening your kitchens and your wallets yesterday to raise money for Kpedze Todze Basic School, in Ghana. We raised $592 dollars which we’ll convert to US dollars for Links Across Borders to take to Headmaster Amoako … Continue reading

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The Coming of Humans

Three of our grade four students spent a week making a timeline of human evolution. Beginning with the arrival of humans in the Pleistocene Epoch of the Quarternary Period, they traced our development through geographic, climactic and evolutionary change that … Continue reading

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