Just add tape
When we do our jobs right, children are able to feel that they live alone on their very own planet. We are just there to buy groceries. When he asked me for tape to lock everything up, I just gave him tape, but because I know a bit about play, I gave him plastic tape instead of masking tape.
More Than a Place on a Map
As they run past landmarks, they catalogue them, they put them in their pockets for later. This is more than a place on a map. It is a childhood.
Writing a New Chapter
There is only one choice. Like the saplings our Tracks class plant each year, like the children we raise, we must grow. We'll become a school that will safeguard a space of play, of creation, and of curiosity for children ages 2 through 8.
The Things That Never Get Finished
With all the dancing, decorating feet circling the cedar, things were suddenly revealed. Half-worms, new beetles, and roots. The worms and beetles were given homes, but the true treasure was a bamboo shoot. It surely is the longest thing to ever exist on this planet.
