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Tools and Practices: Set-the-Week in ALCNY
Every Monday we have a meeting called Set-The-Week (STW for short) where we schedule our classes, events, and trips for the week. During the meeting, we record these “offerings” on a whiteboard with columns for each weekday. After the meeting, the offerings get posted on a daily schedule board in the lobby, on individual kanbans…
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Wednesday Wanderings
Since @pinkpanda moves to Virginia soon, I asked her Monday if there was a last field trip she wanted to take, a part of the city she wanted to see before leaving. After some thinking, she declared that she wanted to take a field trip to a comic book store. While looking at a map…
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I <3 October
But really. It’s my favorite month. Leaves are changing, I get to wear sweaters, apples and chrysanthemums are everywhere…I also might love spookiness and Halloween, as @jacobcb noticed and meme’d. OH! And we’ve been in school just long enough that we get to stop talking about structures as much and just doing all the cool…
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B(a)M!!!
When my cousin mentioned that the Brooklyn Museum had just opened a new exhibit called “Killer Heels,” I heard FIELD TRIP! But would kids interested in more than high heels come? Kind of. @jacobcb @pinkpanda and @ninablanco all came, and I declared an intention of not directing us through the museum. They agreed to support me…
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Muse Field Trip (from earlier in October)
In one of my many past lives, I spent most of my time near, on, or thinking about how to be better at being on horses. My teacher and mentor once suggested taking gymnastics classes to improve my balance. What she actually said was, “It will teach you to fall safely, and that’s important since…
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Week of discoveries and re-discoveries
Monday didn’t really feel like a Monday, since we rolled into it after having ALF-ed through the weekend upstate. I love getting to play with wonderful adults and hang in beautiful Chatham, but there’s always a point where I become impatient to come back to the kids. We filled the weekly schedule board! We cheered…
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This week…
…started with partner acrobatics and will end shortly with a candle-lit gratitude circle (and probably a story-telling game). I’m really tired and really happy. In the space this week, we had visitors come in to offer Taijichuan, an improv game called “Park Bench,” and over 3 hours of partner acrobatics. The kids are also in…
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Werewolves in the Lunch Room
“Sleep-Keeper, return to sleep. Defender, awaken! Who do you choose to defend?” Sprawled in something like a circle on the worn, back-room couches, kids and adults are covering their eyes, small, white squares of paper in front of them. Open-eyed and speaking, a Game Master paces among them calling out cues, conducting murders and rescues,…
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