https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog daily 0.75 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750620757-FGRGKQGJJ120PM3O5PLC/image-asset.jpeg Blog https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/it-started-with-a-stick monthly 0.5 2026-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/5ead2fe5-313e-41a2-b844-7b9267f32504/forest_adventure_near_TPCNS.jpeg Blog - It Started With A Stick - Make it stand out The children explore one of their favorite places. 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Our local parkway is closed on Fridays so our walk is free and easy along the creek. On rainy days, and this was a pouring cold rain, we move. At this point, the children were filled with fascination about the overflowing and rushing creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750660116-QZ3Y7DFUAEMPH8I4ABW5/IMG_3121.jpeg Blog - Cliff of Doom (The Gifts of Awe and Wonder) - Make it stand out Even though we were running late for home time, we had to stop to empty the collected rainwater from our boots and shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750661436-A8BU2CVPQQQG04NLMLSX/IMG_3314.jpeg Blog - Cliff of Doom (The Gifts of Awe and Wonder) - Make it stand out The children stood at the top of the cliff looking down. They were silent at first, taking the view in. Then they all started talking to each other, about which trees and branches they used. One pointed out the hole I almost fell into. They talked about how far away the creek was — where their climb started — it’s barely visible from this great height. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750662889-ZI6X7IKCD5MXCVVLYASV/IMG_3323.jpeg Blog - Cliff of Doom (The Gifts of Awe and Wonder) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2021/10/23/sugar-sand monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750665119-94STBX711Q6B02PHWBNX/IMG_2851.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750666911-9WRLBZ75IVJH80KD4UB5/IMG_2668.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750668194-WLT6W964JVKMM57KRGQV/IMG_2435.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750669408-Y01HF0P8YL1YEWKGDRB0/IMG_2440.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750670677-YV4D2KRYIEJQFRPMUQES/IMG_2442.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750671755-PFAB0HJK295CIEPOR3Q9/IMG_2531.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750673109-19928FWV1UJJ0NXU1GYR/IMG_2848.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750674432-OIPJT6LDR3CU9S9NK7ID/IMG_2849.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750675580-KEIR8G1VRX2MZAGHZPM9/IMG_2855.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750676876-GQTFXNK6SD0UQB7N3ID9/IMG_2856.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750678199-RN6XU6SUEU6MG90Z8CCN/IMG_2857.jpeg Blog - Sugar Sand https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2021/9/6/grandmother-snake monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750681485-C4MY9LMG5RSE2ZR2M8NM/IMG_1001.jpeg Blog - Grandmother Snake - Make it stand out A note we found at the “Sunset House.,” one of the destinations we seek out regularly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750685652-5M777YPR1SB8IOM62O48/IMG_1044.jpeg Blog - Grandmother Snake - Make it stand out Sailing leaf boats and looking for that perfect stone or piece of creek glass. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2021/4/15/on-bad-moms monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750689676-OCDL2Q8NJO9MO7GI9LFT/7A67CA2A-CBEC-4671-89C6-3AC974BCC58A.jpg Blog - On Bad Moms Layer upon layer. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2021/2/22/waiting-for-the-sun monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750693539-DHYZJNMF5YQVCDV8922Q/IMG_6725.jpg Blog - Waiting For The Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750696586-EH6YP4YYQ4WMYE9CQ7TU/IMG_6726.jpg Blog - Waiting For The Sun Recording their research — how tall is this bridge? How many arches? How many cars have driven across it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750700395-5Q2GSE1BJ79X7J0KB03H/IMG_6703.jpg Blog - Waiting For The Sun As we walked along, the sun seemed to play hide and seek with us. The cold would flood in and then the warmth would return as the sun appeared again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750704250-L8Y7QOLANIPZ8HUA8019/IMG_6711.jpg Blog - Waiting For The Sun https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2021/1/22/boat-launch monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750707896-7XINUMEALQG3AGGHVJO2/real_tools.jpg Blog - No Strings Attached Hammers, nails, and wood — three must-haves for ideas to take shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750710398-SH21BT5H9QW1BT9SMVJ8/IMG_6289.jpg Blog - No Strings Attached Designs take shape! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750713881-RVT87E4K0RUW1D8JQN16/IMG_6300.jpg Blog - No Strings Attached On their way to the boat launch. The road is closed for vehicular traffic. 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Practice makes perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750742176-7R05IOZD32T3OFMJC3WJ/IMG_5344.jpg Blog - 100% Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750745552-2FACXWJFOH40ZBVQ0Y2U/IMG_5355.jpg Blog - 100% Rain The walk started with something simple . . . “I wonder if the creek is flooding?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750750145-1DSEEHF7B4GDXRWAKQ5D/IMG_5353.jpg Blog - 100% Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750753477-K092LSCQI7T9MNVR3SUW/IMG_5361.jpg Blog - 100% Rain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750758121-UCYE2FL2WE3KU7BKM26O/IMG_5364.jpg Blog - 100% Rain https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2020/8/21/where-are-we-going monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750761129-JOQXVUSKIQBCBC9P4F3E/b0f2e617-c977-4195-b7c6-e28150048fab.jpg Blog - Where are we going? 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Thank you urban nature news. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750781352-2ZJRREYYN3U2ZQ0X2WCV/IMG_6381.jpg Blog - Urban Wildlife This is the only photo I got of this banner event. The children are ducking down, watching and waiting for that cat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750782882-1O8RBDC3QWY08TL41E47/Street.jpg Blog - Urban Wildlife “The Street” a painting by one of our four-year olds. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/12/31/storyboarding monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750786955-6VPIO1BVSYUF23TKA4VE/Imaginary_play.jpg Blog - Storyboarding Comfort must be given to the Bear Sister. She is trapped by goblin vines and her heart is on the outside of her body! 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The children know that their voices are so much more compelling than my adult-voice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750795429-GIP3BOQWAMKRD3QCQELI/IMG_3234.jpg Blog - Storyboarding This practice of shared context established a mutual respect and acknowledgment while it increased the “grammar” and “sentence structure” of mark-making. The children now have so many different ways to share their ideas. Here the storyboard author explains the choices she made to express her ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750797853-E9MF613Z8SUPUT77NCHA/IMG_3993.jpg Blog - Storyboarding The paper scroll tells the whole story, but the children have so much to say that they will also attach smaller drawings to the edges of the easel and the scroll itself. There is so much to share and to discuss. 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Just how far does Mr. Tiger need to go to get good and wild? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750876329-OJLINOX1A1DQADYMZIN6/IMG_2879.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing This map reveals each stage of “the plan.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750877847-B7MPWW0FY5A517WK8Z6Z/IMG_2880.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing You can see the different stages of the characters’ search for the bird from, Shhh! We Have a Plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750879133-RI973T6TL3RM2B2VH4UM/IMG_2881.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Mr. Tiger Goes Wild takes us on a wild ride from city to the wilderness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750882016-FXMS1ZY6LPXHFNXXDZX1/IMG_2883.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing The animals in the city of Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750883414-N6W9KG3XS7KIUNRQIEWE/IMG_2884.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Mr. Tiger Goes Wild https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750884861-KWBZ8BYT25EB69LXW2HR/IMG_2885.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Mr. Tiger in his happy place! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750886359-EQOVG12Y1FZRO0IWW5JQ/IMG_2892.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Josefina February lives on a hill. She can see the ocean from the tree in her front yard. Halfway between the ocean and her house is the town market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750887914-K0FKH5YXQZ9QE1TC6H3H/IMG_2893.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing The team decided to make a map that featured the hill from Josefina February https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750889530-QCA9DXVJJ5KKMG53E83Z/IMG_2894.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Henri Goes to Paris in four steps phases! The team found materials to represent each step of the journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750891180-4LTFPOEJAKVTWI513GVL/IMG_2895.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Henri doesn’t actually get to Paris. He finds his way only back to his very own home. Is there another map to Paris? Yes, there is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750893111-KM6H1JBV1ETD9AULHRT4/IMG_2896.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing Square in the book, Square goes on a short journey. From his special place filled with squares to trying to figure out how to make a sculpture of Circle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750894938-5FXDB3CXIMU02LWXQ044/IMG_2899.jpg Blog - Coffee and sharing This map really brings some of the more abstract concepts in this book to life. What is a reflection? What is a sphere or a cube? 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Savoring the moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750911609-V5SFBIHG4GIJ0JGAKI1E/Day+207.+July+26.+Summertime.jpg Blog - Summer Report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750914397-WBFP24L2VICTRF8N5Z4S/IMG_0122.jpg Blog - Summer Report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750918167-0YB8NA044OTOC069ZSVF/IMG_0080.jpg Blog - Summer Report https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/6/14/storytelling monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750921092-MWV2KE4BIL3EM4W6C7W3/Forever+Story+1.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story Imagining a world and telling its story using felted dolls, scarves, and doilies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750922703-E0OB2AQC8VD05QMOZOGS/IMG_8740.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story Another example of one of the “Forever Stories” Illustrated by the author/storyteller.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750924237-LOLDIGGEDGCCVD8ZPK2Q/IMG_0142.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story We also told math stories. These blocks offer choices for how the children would like to tell their math story, through matching, patterning, or counting. We also have blocks for clapping out names, choosing a a settling breathe for all, and then, of course, the “Forever Story.” The children in this class really enjoyed the math stories and the clapping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750926223-OOT4KF058P3Q3QA0WGPS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story Today’s choice? Patterning! The children used glass shells, fish, and pebbles to create patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750927764-0UF9MHLW3LVT8UNFBY8B/IMG_8738.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story The girl, boy, and kitten were at the top of the ladder. Then the kitten rolled down the mountain into the lava. She had to go to the doctor. The girl and boy walked with her to the doctor. Meanwhile . . . The dragon breathed out ALL his fire, then breathed it all back in, including the lava. Then it was cold. The girl and the boy noticed something. It was a little doggie who didn’t have a person. So they took the dog to be a friend with the kitten. Then the girl and boy found Grandmother Twilight and her baby. They all left together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750930848-CGJ9BCWYUNMB6FT99H3T/IMG_8741.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story I added the characters and props to the front of the journal so that children could see them when they return to the school in the Fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750932315-JTYJ9KQDDFBXCAUTYCD2/IMG_8739.jpg Blog - Storytelling, The Forever Story They climbed a rope ladder to the ground and they climb up to a mountain that was very high and they jump. And they land in a ball pit and they could reach Grandmother Twilight and the baby dragon in the ball pit. And they climbed up. The Fire Dragon rode home with them. And they had to reach the Fire Dragon how to be nice and not be mean and not stealing people from the Ice Castle. In the end, they live happily ever after. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/5/25/travel-lightcity-amp-forest monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750935461-CXDEJBIBVT4RG7UMPAFR/IMG_7901.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest Finding a stone like this on a manicured lawn is not always easy. The thing is that this stone was left by another child on another day. It was left here for us to use. We left it there in return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750938261-C08M4CPJ7MJHOYEOIZAQ/IMG_7896.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest Just a stump? No. It is a cauldron with the addition of a stick and some ingredients. The lawn had just been mowed so it revealed so many great ingredients — clover and wild strawberries! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750940917-IKTHOGFXILMZO5PZ1AGN/Day+142.+May+22.+Fairy+packages%2C+waiting+for+delivery.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest Fairy packages wrapped plantain leaves filled with clover leaves, small stones, and wild strawberries and tied with clover flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750943079-82N4P44MLP9OLNFOMVVZ/IMG_7895.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest Children were given the task of finding ingredients by one of the co-oping parents. Story was crafted by the adult as well, “We have to make a potion that will put the wizard to sleep.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750944867-5K2RYGSMXTAI86K0LTHG/IMG_7893.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest The children have been sent on a quest. They must find the just-right ingredients for the potions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750946995-VL2UW901HJIBPSBGG6FC/IMG_7954.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest Using a tulip poplar seed pod as a sewing needle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750948374-DVTFWU6M25CG8YLQR2W2/IMG_7952.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest A fairy letter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750950968-JJR8ZZMM556B5J5NV7OL/IMG_7955.jpg Blog - Travel Light...City & Forest A letter for the fairies . . . or is it a new play message? It’s waiting in this perfect mailbox for you to read. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/5/9/lets-talk-about-art monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750953868-UTRARMKG5J8W6LO798XT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art Detail from a child’s work of art. The detail shows the watercolor music sheets cut into smaller rectangle/squares with tin foil embellishments along tempera lines and blocks of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750955571-4JPFM1327X6CHX18SLVP/Aviva.jpg Blog - Let's Talk About Art This work of art was created by a four (and three-quarter so important) year old over the course of several months. Built piece by piece, layer by layer. It is the imagined bird’s flight over a nighttime landscape. This particular one is an ocean landscape with boats and islands. The currents shaping the push pull of the shimmer of water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750957442-I4XLNME8RN69PSOIUOHG/Reid.jpg Blog - Let's Talk About Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750958940-L09I3BILTA2W6G83YS7D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750960623-WWL9FBRVAAYE2ITVZD29/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art Applying watercolor to a sheet of music. The brush used for the watercolor is a fine brush. It will give both shape and line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750962494-THAC38NHPPUBBMC76TLU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art Two artists applying “nighttime” shades of paint to their backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750964495-OMDYIRKPO65G63UI0N0Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art Reapplying the black lines using a lettering brush. Here is the thing…there are so many different kinds of brushes. These are tools. Learning how the science of movement, line, quantity are all gained when a child is taught to use the tools to their advantage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750966850-JI28O5DT0LDC1NMD4USP/IMG_6861.jpg Blog - Let's Talk About Art This child is using diluted glue and a foam brush to attach oil pastel circle “destinations.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750968563-P2147LUGK22D0Y39RBL4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art Cutting the watercolor music sheets into smaller squares and rectangles. These are attached along the black lines. This lesson of valuing the layers — all that work that has gone before — means that the children experience art in a completely different way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750970153-O11GE7EVQ7LVZPJQQJPC/IMG_7040.jpg Blog - Let's Talk About Art I have yet to meet a child who is not a fan of anything shiny. They are little magpies. Tin foil brings the shine they need for this particular work. Although I called them buildings with lights shining in the night with the tin foil representing the shine, some of the children saw these as boats on water. Each of the works, because they took so much time and have been revisited over and over, hold stories with chapters and so, so many ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750972071-YZKYMST6RKI1AE1VNCBW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Let's Talk About Art https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/4/25/mud-kitchen-recipes monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750975063-M0HSN3L2MOA112JISXVJ/Mud_kitchen_ingredients.jpg Blog - Mud Kitchen Recipes The dogwood leaves dried up and magically transformed in purpose from mint to arugula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750977195-A3S8J9VKK9KQ0843DO7Z/IMG_6414.jpg Blog - Mud Kitchen Recipes Hearth and home. The leaves need to be crunched up and the dishes need to be washed. Customers must be served and all the while, new and creative dishes are always in demand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750978987-VYK3UBCCVSPDNB9LLVX1/IMG_6436.jpg Blog - Mud Kitchen Recipes Meanwhile at the mud kitchen, things are really cooking. So much going on over here. The play is deep and wide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750981518-4PIABVDHKPHR9OI0IBA7/IMG_6427.jpg Blog - Mud Kitchen Recipes So much of this activity has been inspired by this simple addition . . . water. Now that we are well past all the freezes AND I had help moving water, bucket by bucket, we were able to fill the water barrel which is right next to the mud kitchen. We have other rain barrels and collection systems, but having this barrel right in the mud kitchen brings a lot of change in how the children use the mud kitchen. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2019/2/5/19-cold monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750983904-RE7XI97WDD4PDW7EOKWK/IMG_3291.jpg Blog - 19% Cold https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2018/12/2/drawing-with-children monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750986952-O1ZHAET6S54ZSFY4XMR0/IMG_0299.jpg Blog - Drawing With Children Drawing in the forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750988839-OKWQEBJ6YQ3UB2MAM5TM/IMG_0683.jpg Blog - Drawing With Children This sign says, “Snake Town.” Lizards beware. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750991041-ZCZXDLHSID9IPLWDUI12/IMG_0420.jpg Blog - Drawing With Children A drawing prompt. Using art prints for inspiration to explore the idea of landscapes, the children were asked to draw where they live. Working in pairs, there was collaboration. They talked as they drew, their lines and ideas mirroring and diverging from the other’s drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704750992570-B1HY7XGPVSCDIJEQIY3A/IMG_0894.jpg Blog - Drawing With Children The conversations unfold in line and shape as well as words and sentences. This is a full body, full mind exchange of ideas and shared purpose. Once we have made the idea of drawing pervasive. 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This word is featured in the title of the poem and in the poem itself, for example this child’s poem is “I Dare.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751004331-EXFBDBWMJM9GY588VKDE/IMG_9924.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children The children use a mirror to look at their world through “new eyes.” This action informed the first line of their poem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751006734-T6Z05G822SMGVFDA780I/IMG_9928.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751009577-T8TSTX2RBYP96BMQPPBB/IMG_9929.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751012035-0G2MSPWA30QB6NT7PGDD/IMG_9953.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751014159-KUNZNJAB51YJ01HIFZQ7/IMG_9951.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children Fabric samples help out with color names. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751016154-005TX9KG4G4ESZ2WNIKH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Poetry With Children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751017836-NFKNTLFZ52QD0PZ0MO5R/Poems.jpg Blog - Poetry With Children https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2018/11/3/yellow-jacket-sisters monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751021496-ZII7KAHQ3LIQIQ0PQ9M8/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Yellow Jacket Sisters A honey bee drone. 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These are told to anyone walking past and to those playing with her. They all agree that these rules make total sense even as they work out and argue over even the smallest detail. The rules govern the protection of their mermaid hearts in the face of danger. Burying these hearts means that nothing can touch them and they can live forever in human form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751052087-9SNUOFLTYT3HDKFZ4P6H/cake.jpg Blog - The Sandpit There is a cake, but not just any cake. This cake is a princess cake. And typical of children’s play rules, the preparation never ends and the party is already happening. Children can inhabit multiple story lines at the same time. It is a lovely place to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751054455-M88GWO1APYW0RJXOP8LR/Granma%27s+house.jpg Blog - The Sandpit Today there is a visit to Granma’s house. Everyone must come. There is food, again, but this time it is pie. This pie is all pies in one, every pie you love, that only this Granma makes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751057498-EZ11AIQSCSMR86WZ1RF0/IMG_7520.jpg Blog - The Sandpit With only the tiniest sliver of sand available because of the rain on the blue tarp, a musical about vampires took flight. Each shovelful of sand dumped on the tarp and on the boulders, the song took on urgency. The vampires are in danger and they must rally to win the fight. Again children’s play rules govern the vampire musical. There is the barest bit of information available for the child about vampires as she shapes and imagines the song and story, but no matter, it sounds really really good. And there is the whole shovelful wet sand on the beat. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2018/7/28/never-give-up monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751062404-A9WGZUBILHJIVM4GMMX7/IMG_6077.jpg Blog - Never Give Up The campers could see that this rope and bicycle wheel combination resembled a pulley system. This spoke to them, but they were met with so many hurdles. They couldn't find a single length of rope, they couldn't pull the ropes taut, and they couldn't figure out how to move something along the length of the zip line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751064048-Y3WIKZYR5OO7C37NKB93/IMG_6113.jpg Blog - Never Give Up A consultation with Tarik. There were many wonderful moments between Tarik and the campers which plainly revealed reflection and imagination at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751066414-KRY226BIJQIU1HAT7DT5/IMG_6097.jpg Blog - Never Give Up At first they used a drawing. This helped them all come to some agreement about the ropes and moved them towards a kind of gondola-design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751068307-TYYAVIJNTLJW9Y475HH2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Never Give Up The knots!!!! The thing you can always trust about children's knots is that they will hardly ever, maybe even never, come undone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751070922-VWAPM1WHLJAU1FV0NGD2/IMG_6134.jpg Blog - Never Give Up At a certain point in the build, the drawing no longer worked for the design team, Tarik taught them how to make a model of the gondola-zip line idea. 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This is the year that marks the beginning of "Bob-ness" at our Tinkering at the Cooperative School summer camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751086408-P9SEEFA0Z660LRSB6D9K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Bob's, Exquisite Fine Dining The story of Bob begins here with this camper who attended the summers of 2014 and 15. The idea of Bob-ness was so compelling that we see new Bob's springing up every summer since. The story is passed from camper to camper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751090362-9DHLSI6ZW0B2OF620VO6/IMG_5007.jpg Blog - Bob's, Exquisite Fine Dining Bob's circa 2018. Undergoing renovations and menu changes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751093390-8YUUKQ3Y6ARF861KHE79/IMG_5242.jpg Blog - Bob's, Exquisite Fine Dining Bob's raffle tickets, 2018. 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Take a look in the open stove cabinet at the back of the kitchen. Check out the drawn plans, food stash, and Poly M pieces. 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Plans have changed . . . in the extreme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751738305-ISJAFFJU1UCMJU4R1Y1C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Role of Destruction in Play A heaving pile-up of stuff tottering on junk heap, but so purposeful. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/5/26/sense-of-place monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751741434-Y8AEDU82Q0JCK0P20KEF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sense of Place The Blue House Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751742941-VBRRVH7HFPHG6EJKY7W3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sense of Place A map of the Blue House site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751744356-6U2F4L44FMFXAVJ0P69H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Sense of Place Another map of the Blue House Site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751746600-R1X4VZNKG59SNIEFQKRX/IMG_4364.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751748479-VMDDTQ7HXQVLI53AGEM0/IMG_4367.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751750394-OTQNZHP49VWOYW7ZJJQM/IMG_4372.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751752437-5I8FV8BEUTXV6RDYB0UE/IMG_4378.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751754461-OMHX8D486MISOYYUT39C/IMG_4414.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751756542-H92TV3HGZBOMVPPI52W4/IMG_4415.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751758199-7RM5XQI0HGDVBGRZGPDU/IMG_4418.jpg Blog - Sense of Place https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/5/23/on-beingscared monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751761419-5US6SG2LFS4BQG8NVVDA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - On Being...Scared The children bury the shrew. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/5/14/the-small-things-that-loom-large monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751763556-LD4FV8I3X6K0LKURK57B/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Small Things That Loom Large https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751765034-NKXY5KUTMLWE93UZX359/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Small Things That Loom Large https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751766892-1UIWICCMD6C2U93PK8LF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Small Things That Loom Large https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/5/9/three-breaths monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751769295-FFH3KAKRDGTBN393X70Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Three Breaths The singing bowl and the five-minute timer. 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When all the shelves are empty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751812382-18US6A2AVS4SVPC2NKGA/IMG_7414.jpg Blog - When all the shelves are empty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751813548-BZM140946YK27SS96XZB/IMG_6776.jpg Blog - When all the shelves are empty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751814866-TNU2K4NTJGXRVG316F3Y/IMG_6809.jpg Blog - When all the shelves are empty https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/4/24/parents-on-site-and-in-on-the-play monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751820294-TKINVET13LQUNESKAJ5S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Parents On Site and IN On the Play! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751825800-E5MHX09EHDBJZYIQM4TW/IMG_3201.jpg Blog - Parents On Site and IN On the Play! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751830074-XLMF290DW0GRD4P823QV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 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The Bite My map is on the right and later after we talked about the pattern and flow that leads to the bite, she drew her own map. 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Can you see them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751862663-XLDN3QJNU9IUOTU638II/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play is Passed From One to Another The "Cow Team" has to get across the quicksand and river to get to the Ice Castles of the "Ice team." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751863892-1JF3QZOHJ3Z3PG3I8KUS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play is Passed From One to Another Organizing the Fire Power and by fire power, the players mean power that brings the team back to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751865178-RNNB8294I5GBDMW7I06Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play is Passed From One to Another The quicksand is such a problem! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751866381-OJVBJRNSH0RJWFRHNDBZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play is Passed From One to Another The river runs through it... https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/3/13/what-your-baby monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751868786-71TI6L02XOTSZMXF966O/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Your Teen Babysitter Wants to Know https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/2/28/treasure-found monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751871141-17E63ONKE6JPX2OUATCT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Treasure Found https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751872231-5JVME2VBRHHRZOL1CB67/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Treasure Found https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/2/24/what-is-dramatic-play monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751874447-J4YABSABQPK4OKANJZ5N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What is Dramatic Play? The Goblins have stolen the light of the whole world. The wedding (which is always in the planning stages) must be postponed. Dangergirl and a magic Earth ball may be able to solve the problem. 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In the meantime, the larger messages of moving sand, planks, logs, crates, and branches tell the story of structures, pathways, and traps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751881039-0UQBD3AO7NFWXYSL2V18/IMG_1066.jpg Blog - Play Messages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751882222-T4V1XFBQ036FUEJYIPIJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play Messages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751883502-FVMKO2XLAPW6LIYA8VWJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Play Messages https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/1/31/what-we-know monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751885541-AW1O0JG4NR66NJXYL9CH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What We Know Plans are being hatched. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/1/23/legacies monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751889278-4TV98HNXU8I3P4YNA6NW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Legacies A kitten bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751892021-FHQLHXX2BEV1E9THOADW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Legacies Super hero shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751894082-SME9UU7DNEZ3L5XW29HE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Legacies Doors and walls to the super hero lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751895976-M079HPEKLKWFLGQMIV5T/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Legacies The unsinkable spy boat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751897948-YCQVX8OB37E5DF6S38A1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Legacies An integral component of the word factory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751900312-JEXZE3MAWXKIRM6WO8ZP/IMG_1373.jpg Blog - Legacies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751902537-2HVA8SQ032B69W1PA2JL/IMG_1603.jpg Blog - Legacies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751904561-KEXZJYB5S3G2KEQOICD6/IMG_1879.jpg Blog - Legacies https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2016/1/18/from-this-future-stewards-grow monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751907426-P25XNF47WQ4MJWBZUWEP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From this, future stewards grow. Lichen, pine needles, the freshest dirt, and scraps of painted paper are all ingredients for cake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751908619-RZPZD3PEZWT59H8P6QIZ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From this, future stewards grow. The squirrel den excavation. This is the dirt that is mixed with leaves to make the squirrel den's roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751909754-UX1YQHMDQ2PU8OST1IVD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - From this, future stewards grow. 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Referring back to the mapping activities we had undertaken, the children had the information they needed to "not get lost." All the paths would lead back to the water if you went downhill. The creek is at the bottom of the hill, the neighborhood at the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751919740-IN5TSN6VYKPUTS8ZDVOQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Transformation The rock the children named "Rocko Obama." There was such a profound change in the understanding of this geographical feature. Seeing it in the 2015 365 project was like seeing an old friend after many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751921215-WIV6JNSCKWFBMCNE5EEM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Transformation The time had finally arrived. During their threes year, this section of creek presented the hard lesson of "step in the water, you will get wet," but now these children endeavored to build a bridge. They would get across. They would also get wet, but that was met with a different response. Their context had broadened and they had the tools to factor this experience in with also being dry and also how to overcome the challenge with the solution of moved rocks, dragged branches, and increased sense of balance. Place and space! https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/27/what-i-learned-in-kindergarten monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751923215-0IOZA051DB1Y4F7SXXPO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What I Learned in Kindergarten Building dragon castles. This is where dragons come to get married. Should there be windows? That seemingly small addition creates a very big discussion. Should there be a door?!?! 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It will take you from the building site, through the forest, past the fox den and dragon lair, all the way to the city house and recharging station house. When the stump stops rolling easily is it because you are both on the same side? One will move to the front to pull while the other pushes. Uh oh, your feet, won’t do that again. A subtle way to learn about the subtle changes in terrain that you no longer notice while walking and running. 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Was it the rain that had collected in their mulch stews? The mulch floated, but would the tiles? Was it the color contrast of dark to light? It doesn’t really matter. The basket of tiles said nothing for so long and suddenly they started to talk. A lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751946565-QJOKQ98NBX8BSQVKFZXO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Journey of a Collection of Loose Parts (Never Give Up) A pattern of up and down. Buttons to launch a rocket? To signal a superhero? A secret password to order up a cake stew for your next party? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751947739-CQ2MP89F0Y3FE7K5WGUF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Journey of a Collection of Loose Parts (Never Give Up) This one I know because I was told — The numbers tell the builders how deep to make the mulch pile — and that isn’t a mulch pile anyway — it is a carpet. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/13/keys-in-the-forest-1 monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751949612-4QF3UWD40IKQF6HZSHI5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move All piled up on the forest floor. It’s time to play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751950931-73J1082GBQ8QM5YZN2RJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move Sketching, collecting, and just thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751952038-642XSUFNBGC8XVLR0RHP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move Walking along the sidewalk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751953331-H1Y28JSA6PPNR5Y4JYOK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move The totes in motion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751954404-3A5PNRRZ87GQZ9JCVY4E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move And on the escalator! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751955588-EUZTCISKYUDSQAOWAGY0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move Different venue. The totes fit perfectly into the museum setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751956619-LQR9ELUMCXFRBVIZ8WK2/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Takoma Totes on the Move And on the train. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/13/keys-in-the-forest monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751958494-G9PKTVRHUS03J9FVMG9E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keys in the Forest Keys, but all the wrong keys. Strategically placing these wrong keys about the forest floor will keep the bears and the witch busy for hours trying each one on the locked door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751959631-UD0N2FAKKQ3JGI6UQ06K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keys in the Forest The pirate ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751960777-2NI4L4XQDP3LDHHWYPNO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keys in the Forest Digging a hole to plant a tree for the fairy house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751961923-4WG8Z99CGUU6HY2ZT2PT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keys in the Forest Rat stew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751963025-BC5U61WODCFPXW7U5F9K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keys in the Forest https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/the-spaces-in-between monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751965170-72C237L044KKYLJ83W1F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Spaces In Between The birthday dinner partiers have to take the long way ’round to the party location. Today, it is the planning, shaping, and going that means more than the being there or the celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751966258-LCZYQHM3823F8NJ5N89S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Spaces In Between This is a completely different dinner party. The decorations for this party are the most important thing. Plus, it is a pop-up kind of party. The party is moved to different parts of the yard. You can tell where it will pop up next because the restaurateurs clean the space first. Dusting and sweeping sets the stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751967471-JC1HL8UK8DS6FSSCPE5Z/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Spaces In Between Setting up house in a completely imaginary way with walls indicated by a branch and a rope. The cushion serves as both stove and bed. The time and space to shape this play needs to be roomy and deep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751968481-MSB02TY453VPC7KFX6AS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Spaces In Between Children will find new contexts for familiar settings. This is not a sandpit. It is a canvas for imaginary play. They are building a Deathstar. It requires channels in the sand, cement, and pipes. As adults we do not have the words to speak the language these children are using. What we do have is an understanding of how to shape and fill the environment for these words, this communication, this sharing to flow freely. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/growing-together monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751970516-IXNR9SLBWOTZAV2YQZ4I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers The Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School co-oping team sets up snack for the children and coffee for the adults. My kind of snack beverage! I wonder when we gave up wearing high heels and dresses on co-op days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751971779-B0GZ130QG8RUG22VVY9X/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers A co-oper listens to children at our old location on New Hampshire Avenue. The playground overlooked Sligo Creek Park. We carried the bits of this sandbox to our new location and used it until it was replaced by our sandpit. We kept two of the boards and the children use these to build slides and platforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751972829-N1P3MEBWXCAK1WS43VBG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers Turkey feathers from Nancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751973920-V9JKNY7IUSZZCX427CH5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers A collection of dolls. Nancy had noticed early on that we have a collection of dolls that the children play with. Each one is more special than the last. All of them resting on a large piece of feather fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751975169-T34WZKFIV0OQ4OM2IYSB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers A “power stick” that Nancy made from a piece of driftwood that she found. The driftwood appears to have a lovely bird face. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751976421-Q68DCQ250O7DCR11KL72/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Feathers The feathers and a collection of feather fabrics. The package also included the book, “The Perfect Purple Feather.” The book was an instant hit with the children. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/stuff-silly-bands-and-unit-blocks monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751978413-1P7ECMLZ5WW5OR61WBXW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuff (Silly Bands and Unit Blocks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751979559-WYNHKSPTRXV7BJ0GD5K9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuff (Silly Bands and Unit Blocks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751980826-WZTTLUXBPSP1WM1TP38F/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuff (Silly Bands and Unit Blocks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751981909-ISLBID88CHVUDS5GLOZF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuff (Silly Bands and Unit Blocks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751982938-53I0MPMTFFSDPF31505Q/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Stuff (Silly Bands and Unit Blocks) https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/book-note-engaging-with-parents-in-early-years-settings monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751984866-KE23GKE3G0YOS2HXGR8C/1.jpg Blog - Book Note: “Engaging With Parents in Early Years Settings” https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/find-your-answers-outdoors-at-lauko-and-miko-dareliai monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751986692-YZHGEMMVC6QYVU2I7WM7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai The perfectly excavated hole, worked on over time, provides story and connection with the Earth. And both will always bring you back to the place you belong. The center, the space between, comfortable in yourself in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751987772-PPRHSRV08CH2IDIZ3HH3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai A tree frames the smiling face of one of the children from Lauko darželis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751988883-63GCVO6RHHN8SZ1HO9WM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai A wreath at Miško darželis signals to all that here is the clearing, here is the forest, you belong here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751989944-GACHFL7EPPFE9EZ1ZCNG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai The sleeping tent at Lauko darželis. Think for a moment and remember how you felt after a nap outside! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751990903-UJHGOEAJDSUPVR4LIH6A/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai The Durys, or door, at Miško darželis. The children knew that the key was needed to unlock this door and the branches laid end to end marked the fence line. They simply did not step over, rather waited for the teacher to unlock the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751992037-UAIEP5Z65W3KRISGDDKX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Find Your Answers Outdoors at Lauko and Miško Darželiai People strolling and playing in Bernardina Gardens. The connection to the land is very much a part of what we saw during our visit to Lithuania. Being outside was something that was simply everywhere you looked. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/book-note-the-intuitive-parent monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751994188-ICRS6CKGNCISC0OZKKIT/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Book Note: “The Intuitive Parent” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751995683-B6P0NQYLX26RFCHMIYBB/41KPH7zszoL._SL250_.jpg Blog - Book Note: “The Intuitive Parent” https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/12/12/a-frog-and-a-snail-playing-at-lauko-darelis monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751998043-HKW7S62RRECSSVBX45VU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis A tiny frog is cradled just so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704751999185-9U3OQ8BC5CPYLOBIISXB/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis Unnur’s play with snail shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752000523-6RWW9BBIVOI3PWO27UYL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752001624-IL57VIMYPJ0JCA3QLPJW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752002943-KPMZLD9RB9CVG8ZZHN33/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis This plastic thing says a lot in the language of play. Just look! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752004125-K8IFXKBHRR7JHGWZJYC3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis The team (Martin, Unnur, Kierna, Irena, and myself) worked to build a den using a metal frame that was onsite at the Kaunus location. We knew we could walk away when one of the children constructed a door that only his key would unlock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752005459-KK7T5TG124HEXI6DK3H0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752006562-K71ZL5FVDIF3P8D9Z9JU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - A Frog and a Snail; Playing at Lauko Darželis https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/jump-the-earth-will-catch-you-trust-at-lauko-darelis monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752008695-24YYBH4QWFMWDP9VE7LS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jump! The Earth Will Catch You; Trust At Lauko Darželis Jump! The Earth will reach up to catch you. The message is loud and clear. Dreams will come true. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752009685-4L33ESKXDD45HL81R3GL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jump! The Earth Will Catch You; Trust At Lauko Darželis Children collect in a leafy shelter and immediately begin setting up a house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752010901-LS09EDLDCKPD3HHAPLUM/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jump! The Earth Will Catch You; Trust At Lauko Darželis Shoes off, the river is waiting. There are stories about beings that live in the river. Long strands of river grass wave back and forth in the water, these creatures’ hair, perhaps? The children are able to immediately explore it, excited, without pausing to take off their backpacks. In they go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752012115-IUTMYJN6G7E2QUDPKHBC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jump! The Earth Will Catch You; Trust At Lauko Darželis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752013332-LCOFEHMZ4HY1GVI7K05M/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Jump! The Earth Will Catch You; Trust At Lauko Darželis Standing on a circle of rocks, each child becomes the thing or person they imagine. The first is a mustachioed person (the mustache is blade of grass she is holding just so) and then the two are warriors calling out their superpowers. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/the-democratic-process-in-our-cooperative-model-school monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752016021-AVKK5UIIA384RF5HWCYI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Democratic Process in Our Cooperative Model School A membership meeting working session. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752017229-Q3Q5JUE90S7H9EK9BZL0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Democratic Process in Our Cooperative Model School Meetings and negotiations become part of the fabric of the classroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752018289-YKL303VPNIKOFS0GLG8G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Democratic Process in Our Cooperative Model School It’s her turn now. One of the Tink campers teaches the other children how to play a game she knows called “All my friends and all my neighbors” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752019576-CBI0MD610RF3YR7EZ5UJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Democratic Process in Our Cooperative Model School We regularly ask the nursery school children about their experiences. “What works for you and what doesn’t?” is the prompt. This photo shows the written suggestions from one of our Tink campers. “What worked and what would make your experience better?” was the prompt they used to help us build a better program next year. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/straight-to-the-mayhem monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752021622-FUL6SB7O8MBBKY73VILE/Hunter-stew.jpg Blog - Straight to the Mayhem Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752022695-X5GCHMCZOWXXTRMS22K0/51Y8GfWi8sL._SL250_.jpg Blog - Straight to the Mayhem https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/rulers-of-the-game monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752025031-LASQZYX0NI8EKU2LWDXU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Rulers of the Game This is a store, but it also isn’t a store. A store would imply that you could purchase or trade goods. At this store, this is not possible. It is actually a hoard and there are regular raids by a warring party. The bins of treasures slowly moved up, first from the ground, then to the platform the children are standing on, next hoisted up on ropes, and when all that didn’t protect the hoard, they moved the bins to very top of the structure. This perch is precarious as they soon found out when one of the bins filled with bricks, bottle babies, glass beads fell off yanking the other bin along with it since they were tied together with ropes. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/altruism-as-a-unifying-force monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752027007-35V9IERP7TNK3CAYZP1N/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Altruism as a Unifying Force The desire to build something meaningful, however fleeting, is begun with the smallest hands as they build sand castles, fairy houses, dens, and forts. Then, as children grow up and become adults, they seek to build something that will last longer and will change, hopefully for the better, the lives of others. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/and-here-we-are monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752028850-CZ2SP5QSJ51FSPJQI5TS/image-asset.jpeg Blog - And Here We Are... The resting lion. Close enough to touch and certainly close enough to talk to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752029934-QB81R9QVW6XJBPM6BBNE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - And Here We Are... This crosswalk and its connected stop signs and yellow curb markings signal “pay attention” and “walk here” in the same way a jackrabbit will bolt across the desert at the first sign of a hawk or a human’s approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752031100-JHIUBCDZ0X4I4HRPANC9/image-asset.jpeg Blog - And Here We Are... This is a fixture of our landscape. Its coloring, its marking tell us that there is water here. Not sewage. Water, specifically our drinking and bath water. This is our landscape and our trail signs. Would I place this above the way a tree will hold its moss on the shady side of its bark? No. It is about valuing what we have and learning how to read the signs. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/ready-to-launch monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752033229-TSQ5UH5UO4HO7PEZFJ7G/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Ready to Launch The Lanterns float with the Washington Monument in the background. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/11/28/more-lessons-from-the-forest monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752035300-BCW84Y0JMC7DAH39MLHV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Lessons From the Forest Climbing Rocko Obama. A year after their discovery of this giant, split boulder perched over the deer path so much has been learned. Rather than walking directly to the edge, they tested its surface by crawling and then slowly standing. Win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752036493-K5P9MUZR6U8CMVNBJX1Y/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Lessons From the Forest One of the children brought a map she made at home. She was especially afraid of this idea of navigating the trail without the help of an adult so she drew this map to help her get through it. The first time the children went, she stayed with me. I showed her how the children would stop to make eye contact with me before continuing. When they got back from their adventure, they wanted to go again. This time she went with them. Win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752037952-8944SQQ769PORS7SNB2C/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Lessons From the Forest The children, high up on the deer path, stop to make eye contact with me as they cut along the ridge. Can you see them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752039046-JRMA4Z0NTWRL0CPJS0HC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Lessons From the Forest Using a stick to help balance across the log/branch bridge. Win! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752040231-BY085XVAJFTRPY4EDAJO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - More Lessons From the Forest The log/branch bridge takes you to an inlet. At the far edge of this rocky beach is a large boulder that has fascinated all of us for two years. The boulder sticks up out of the creek like a massive tooth, most certainly one from a dinosaur. Of course. It looked like the creek had shifted its course and banks just so to allow us to finally get to that boulder, but no. The connecting piece was just pollen and blossoms caught in an eddy. The children tested it with their sticks before stepping on it. Win! https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/24/scaffolded-social-dramatic-play monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752042212-Y14HBX8MIWUORZRTS8DU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play This is really fast race car in the garage for repairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752043327-MBABSRSF8LR2PNHRCEZW/IMG_7260.jpg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play A collection of random objects (lost and now found) to help the children develop story. An item is selected and then the children work collaboratively to create character, setting, and conflict inspired by that object before beginning the play arc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752044467-6WTJPN3IZ67W1EHF1FHV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play “Your car is so broken!” She built her own car to repair for me. It is going to take 68 hours to repair! “Have some coffee,” she tells me. I might need two cups! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752045597-KNE53Q0FBAYO0B1SOHO5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play “These are the fireballs I am going to paint on your car!” Yes! I will have the best car a nursery school teacher could wish for. I told her to make sure she gave me racing fuel for the engine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752046821-H6I3R1E72P6KKZ42NLAR/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play Each group had the same materials available for their use. This group collaborated on a single car and it features decorative elements of scarves and “fuel pipes” which would make my car the fastest one around! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752047949-DXVXXOW6ZB074SGFHF9L/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play This group spent a lot of time painting the inside and outside of my car. They used the ladder triangle as the lift. It was interesting to see how the cars differed. The one, as I mentioned, was decorated with scarves yet this one featured a lot of interior details, like a driver’s seat (kind of important), a trunk/boot, and a cup holder. Good thing I have a place to keep my coffee! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752049381-DMDTMMDFGRLZM88HI7BJ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Scaffolded Social Dramatic Play Cup holder technology! https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/24/gaining-a-sense-of-wonder-it-takes-time monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752051512-J3GA9M46535CH3RTUX9P/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. The den rocket ship builders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752052655-Q4PHK0YBM82MKY8818XP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. Yet another stump is turned over. She checks these each day, making her rounds, carrying the “adorable baby” insects with her like these two slugs… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752054241-IGLOM5LUYBES6NK0K9KU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752055486-VD29OEMDJD49CZ209Q9J/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. Drawing her play in the fairy nature den. “I like to alone-play in this den,” she tells us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752056712-GUL1J8FXMY7OMPTS1I37/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. This is the den rocket ship. Its branches will be moved and dragged about by another group of children and made into something else, but this moment and the play it held will last a lifetime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752058077-RL8KR07RGKQHBRYTUUDV/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Gaining a Sense Of Wonder. It Takes Time. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/24/out-on-a-limb-practicing-mind-body-integration monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752060045-06GH9ON182TQ4AAZ53LB/IMG_6275.jpg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration Testing a branch for climbing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752061217-N5U9GQYZNPIC2GIX9J5S/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752062376-DYBSJIP08XNZOWD8QMDQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752064036-RNHWYQ84ZHB9QDAE0JDI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752065864-QNJDTG9D0RVUB5SUFUEW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752067040-3BFCPQ1WMBYGWDHMK04T/51fGFBSOapL._SL250_.jpg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752068028-KHMYGWIMZJC4FSGSDGYM/61efqzU9gpL._SL250_.jpg Blog - Out On A Limb: Practicing Mind-Body Integration https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/23/the-campfire-arc monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752070619-LP3LFFPWNQ6QPL3TNKTK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc The Jiffy Pop popcorn dome. Something rarely seen and so very impressive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752071896-VDJUQBKUPT1XCEBAE9IF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc Some of the children were thrilled, while others worried that there would be an explosion. They had no idea WHAT was in the expanding tin foil! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752073022-T2BOTJYTE256ENRCWVD1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc Popcorn! The cool weather, the wait, and the showiness of the Jiffy Pop experience made the taste of the popcorn even better! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752074131-S3VURY2DENW8Z7MAMA4H/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc Making flatbread pizzas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752075273-P6S54LAHR7EC37VPAFSL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc Individual pizzas are roasting on the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752076845-5EQJ1IBY5OCBEMGJQWDY/6-Smells-Delicious.jpg Blog - The Campfire Arc Yummy smells and sizzling sounds from the campfire as the flatbread pizza cooks! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752078024-1MT3G5VR3QDFFBLMDS43/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc Warm food and lovely company on a snowy day. A perfect meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752079535-DMKV4B1YUSCCA7TZZS6I/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc We stepped up our game and made recipe cards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752080843-3GK6AUHP0XUY1P0JA5XH/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc The leftovers from the cherry mountain pie table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752082085-SF0DHL13CO4AWKYTL64E/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc The mountain pies cooking directly on the coals. Mountain pies are basically stuffed sandwiches. There is a cast iron gadget available to hold these directly in the flames of the campfire. We were making so many, that we squished the edges of the bread and wrapped them in foil. The smell of the cooking food adds to the experience, rather than simply relying on the flames to fascinate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752083501-8TMMYQP8TO8GPZPNO527/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc As the food cooked, stories began to tumble about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752084849-NZC1M5DDCN8UCQFC89B1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc The conversation continued to flow at the table during the meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752086303-7J6Q7MWNRD61W2J124MX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Campfire Arc And finally, the storytelling took on a new element…re-enactment. Here one of the children is pretending to be a character in the story. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/03/22 monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752088668-SPV88420J4CU2K22P487/image-asset.jpeg Blog - COLLABORATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT “This held up with yarn and ribbon. It has a lot of branches pointing up and turned out. Like this one or this one. Which way did you climb up? This cross-branch looks looser than the rest. If you come down this way, will it hold you up? The structure looks like it is leaning against this tree. Does one side seem tippier?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752090026-5ADHRZY6FSZTLCEDYIH0/image-asset.jpeg Blog - COLLABORATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT One points with her foot and another from as far away as she can be and still be near it. There is a strand of pampas grass attached to the rope just waiting for an unsuspecting passer-by. “Go around, way around!” They say. The other two called over one of the children who was wearing gloves. He fixed the situation and the play could resume safely. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/23/you-wont-get-lost-just-find-the-scat monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752092243-MT9692GDI76AHDRPRS2M/Collection-of-maps.jpg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. A collection of maps reveals how each child documents their own unique and yet shared recollection of the walk to the Giant Fallen Tree. Notice all the different ways to document deer scat and pink flamingos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752093437-DC76LHAC2SRD9BX92LMG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. In this map, the bike bridges are represented by cheerful-looking M-shapes while the pink flamingos smile and take center stage, eyelashes and all! The dotted line will take you wherever you need to go! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752094747-3XZKSR5DHMBTHTGC4CWW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. The children collectively (and individually) draw maps. While they draw, there is a steady stream of conversation. They trade ideas and memories. They tell the story of the journey even as they draw the elements on paper. This is how rich the opportunity for “The Look Twice” is! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752096150-0UFL7LBIZP06DYZU72SH/Children-walking-from-the-school.jpg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. I noted that there was a change in the way the children created landmarks, both on paper and in their constructions. In this photo, you can see that the landmark: School is standing upright and also the children-figures are walking ON the path rather than alongside. This is a marked change in approach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752097194-MC17DZB8G0PD1SDQLSHL/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. Here the school is a flat and quite a substantial part of the map story. Definitely “house shaped” and the next large block represents the work site. The collaboration between two map builders have defined these two landmarks as something that should be featured prominently in their map construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752098201-HKHQKTVQJJTWRVGHC530/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU WON’T GET LOST. JUST FIND THE SCAT. This collaborative construction map is especially fun to look at. The fallen tree is represented by four, joined quarter blocks, with a rectangle block trunk (center of the photograph. The complex structure along the lower edge represents the two generators and sewage pump that we had to walk past along the way. This machinery, open sewer, smell, and sound was something really worth noting. Then there is some fun with the children (note how they are walking alongside the path) are carefully orchestrated rainbow people and pets. Because. The thing that cannot be seen is the loud and vibrant negotiation between the builders of this map. They had to agree to agree how to connect their paths and what landmarks needed to be included. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/10/23/you-have-to-know-its-there-the-forest-provides monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752100263-RQXUQYHAA18BB5IWH9WK/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) As the children scrambled deeper into the forest along the “Giant Fallen Tree,” we could see something pink beckoning from the bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752101402-IABGDRDBJGLV5T91DAQU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752102524-ZFZLK16V2SEBYVLAYULI/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) Laetiporus springs up along the length of the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752103561-B6ZBCTBD2DSW0I3Z0WX2/Melting-snow.jpg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) Snow melt layered on leaves and mud, provide another sensation for balancing and climbing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752104888-Z95QDN4FDVYK4JC5DGDF/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) The trunk of the fallen tree is the most attractive part to climb on, but it is simply too high to get up. The children have to find another way. Finding the narrow, upper reaches of the tree, and climbing under these smaller branches gives them the purchase they need to get to the trunk of the tree. Problem-solving through measurement in the most meaningful way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752105807-FUEL74J7GVK54TX0WE6K/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) White-tailed deer leave scat everywhere! This also helps signal close proximity to the trails they make as well. Rather than struggling through briar and bush, it is better to look down and then around for the gift of the trails the deer leave us. These will lead back to the creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752107118-9ZFU1F41V73HYS88P1RD/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) The tree trunk is so high up. Imagine how this tree stood tall over the forest before it fell. What made it fall? What great bit of wind would knock it down? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752108281-NCM2L6ZDW05OFDVNZ2CP/The-giant-tree.jpg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) The upper branches of the tree move and even bend. The children have to adjust their gait and navigation to scale them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752109659-TRNGU8E7ZHY649VWCOG1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT’S THERE (THE FOREST PROVIDES) https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/02/23/crying monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752111654-OH3IS9SKG44IFFZ85LQC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Crying On opposite sides of the boat. Do you wonder about what these children are doing in this photo? What they are feeling? Here is the story, or at least one story! The upturned boat has been warmed by the sun. They feel that warmth and are quiet. For the moment. Only for a moment. https://www.takomacooperativeschool.org/the-blog/2015/02/the-cache-builders monthly 0.5 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752113486-XKQVZ6BKH246OFSF69RH/Elf-Workshop.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders Elf Workshop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752114796-Y2UFBB6GZ9J04K9OVLO2/Alternative-Entrance-to-the-Workshop.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders The filled crates eventually blocked all the doorways in, so the Tracks built another way to get into the Workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752115928-S2J5B6OSC4QI3SSGZ508/A-wall-goes-up.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders The decided to build a house one day. And it involved dismantling most of the contents of the elf workshop (they needed the bricks). Unfortunately, they built it on a path and quickly realized that it might stop them from using the path altogether. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752117010-2UQTRLMCAJLV8G2FMUCF/The-wall-is-moved.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders They moved the house they were building to another location under the steps. "This will be the best house ever!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752118139-W34WC5ASM7UDH9J4BIKW/Now-more-trees.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders In the meantime...recycling Christmas Trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752119374-7T7GKHU0DY2CIE5PN9AY/Tree-pile.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders This is where the trees are headed. To a pile of trees because one tree is not enough for a pile, you need at least five trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752120411-WHTJ09TJWYXF1F53MM3O/Under.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders Beneath the trees, another collection began. Bark, chunks of wood, more bricks, and nesting ducks can be found beneath the pile of trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752121589-UFJ253RPF4TNQEZMIQWZ/Up.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders And, of course, a place to climb up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752122798-6NGRK7GTTIGGLQMV4U96/Moving-boards.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders Meanwhile, back at the house construction site, a board is needed. Or more precisely...as many boards as they could find are needed! Of course! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/657e57c323b3cd491bd4c9cf/1704752124030-58NSTXDELFAZ1OXJWB6F/The-cache-house.jpg Blog - The Cache Builders "This is the best house ever!" and "We are going to move in really soon." and "No one will ever knock this down!" And I know, I know, it looks like it has been knocked down more than once, but it hasn't. 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