Play Messages
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Play Messages

Every afternoon for the last two weeks, the wall goes up in the Teahouse. Every morning the wall gets knocked down. "Hello? Anybody home?" Play is calling.

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What We Know
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

What We Know

It would be so lovely to move closer and hang on each word. We know that each word is like a jewel and this shared moment is cluster of diamonds. Their ideas have depth and insight, but mostly they have joy, and we can't even hear them! 

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Legacies
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Legacies

Each year, the outgoing Tracks class rallies and gifts something to the school. These are usually gifts that are inspired by the play and interests of the children or things that we as parents and teachers have learned over the course of a year scaffolding the children. 

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From this, future stewards grow.
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

From this, future stewards grow.

The idea that children will wreck things is very much part of the adult-world view (not all adults, of course, but many). This is something that trails us when we visit the adult-world of art museums and it also follows us into the forest.

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