Mud Kitchen Recipes
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Mud Kitchen Recipes

I was good and stuck on the kale idea. Obviously.

“No. I think it’s called arugula? Yes, that’s it. Arugula,” the mud kitchen in the teepee was again open for business, “We have arugula now!”

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Sense of Place
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Sense of Place

The "Blue House at the Edge of the Forest" site was not selected because it featured opportunities for nature study. It held no plans for literacy, math, or science activities. It was not a classroom moved outside into the forest and yet it is very much in line with what we do every day at our school. The school is designed around destinations and the forest site was chosen because it offered multiple zones for play, because play is what we are after!

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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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Spaces and Destinations
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Spaces and Destinations

Turn left from the creek path and you will find the door. The children call out, “Lesley use the key!” I pull the fancy, silver key out of my pocket and unlock the door. We duck down and go inside.

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