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This week our 3/4th grade had an early Caturday wi

This week our 3/4th grade had an early Caturday with a visit from @catdepot 🐱 to learn more about their amazing shelter program, cats, cat care, as well as animal themed activities in conjunction with their zoology studies this year. We are so grateful that they were able to come and bring one of their sweet adoptable kitties, Cheddar! Afterwards the students also did origami with Kalin sensei...and of course there were many orange kitties.🥰.

Cat depot has many cats and kitten for adoption if you're looking, and they are an excellent organization to support...the cats in their care are truly loved and nurtured until they find their furrever homes. We are so grateful for their informative visit!💗🐈
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Fridays are for forests🌳 The perfect way to en

Fridays are for forests🌳

The perfect way to end our week, blissful in the woods.💕🌴💕

What is your favorite forest spot?🌲
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📷 by Ms Amanda

Things you can do when you're not holding a smartp

Things you can do when you're not holding a smartphone:

1. Catch and observe snakes!

This 8th grade student is an EXPERT snake catcher, observer, and admirer. He is of course also incredibly respectful in his reptilian endeavors.

It's never too late to drop or reduce screen time use! Check out @waituntil8th for helpful tips!
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📷 Mr Jon

Sincere gratitude to @moteeducation @motemarinelab

Sincere gratitude to @moteeducation @motemarinelab for hosting our students for dipnetting and species classification! Definitely a favorite activity as children discover many of the species thriving among the various seagrasses in our bay, and are reminded of why our behavior as humans is so important for the protection of our waters, and all of the beings that live in them.🐙🌊🐚

After carefully dragging their nets across the bay floor, they then need to carefully sift through the various seaweeds to find many juvenile species, some of which are as tiny as your pinky nail! Their excitement for this process is contagious, and we are so grateful to Mote and their skilled staff for gently guiding our students, and offering many valuable teachings, that they bring to their own explorations. 🙏
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Expeditions in adolescence. 🥰 From 7/8th grade

Expeditions in adolescence. 🥰

From 7/8th grade:
"We commit to dedicating ourselves to forming a community with a shared mission, nurturing our unity, tending to the health of our minds, hearts, and bodies, developing
and using effective communication and relating skills, and growing strength, resilience, and
understanding in the face of learning and emotional challenges. We are powerful people, yet it
takes awareness, observation, creativity, dedication and practice to stay on track."

Adolescence is difficult no matter what...it's a true transformation, therefore there will be growing pains. Being an in environment where this is recognized and honored is such a gift for these students, as they begin the journey of knowing themselves, finding alignment to their values and discovering their personal truths. What is more important than that? 🙏
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One of the many treasures found yesterday at our b

One of the many treasures found yesterday at our bay side 🌳 Forest Friday! No matter the age, the allure of searching for and admiring various critters is hard to resist. 🥰

Enjoy this beautiful weekend outside!🌊🌴
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Missing our dear Ms Joanne this morning who is pre

Missing our dear Ms Joanne this morning who is presenting at @forestandnatureschools Nature Based Teacher Certification program!🌳 Here are her lovely Sandpipers, under her gentle guidance.
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Never stop being curious, or earnestly exploring y

Never stop being curious, or earnestly exploring your surroundings. It's always such a joy to see older students getting dirty and discovering something new...in their environment, or about themselves!

Curiosity keeps us young and childlike in the very best way - enthusiastic about the world and all of the wonders it beholds. 💗
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Good morning from our Starfish Kindergarten!☀️

Good morning from our Starfish Kindergarten!☀️

They are ready for a morning of deep imaginative play, meaningful work, and sensory rich experiences. 🥰
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Face your dragons.🐲 Sincere gratitude to the t

Face your dragons.🐲

Sincere gratitude to the teens who dedicated many hours and expert craftsmanship to the new dragon head for our Michaelmas play. Truly inspiring what kids can do when they're empowered and given creative license to do whatever they can dream up!😍
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"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Oct

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

And forests! 🍁🌳🍂🌴

Hope you enjoy this gorgeous weekend outside!☀️
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"In autumn Saint Michael with sword and with shie

"In autumn Saint Michael
with sword and with shield,
passeth over meadow
and orchard and field
He's on His way to battle 'Gainst darkness and strife
He is the heavenly warrior
Protector of Light" 🌟

Michaelmas, on 9/29, began as a harvest festival in the Middle Ages, and honors the archangel Michael, a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as the symbol of good triumphing over evil, and a protector of humanity, inspiring strength, will, and courage throughout history. As Michaelmas falls near the autumn equinox, we celebrate this at our Autumn Equinox Festival.

During the autumn equinox, day and night are perfectly balanced; this equilibrium also represents the duality of light and darkness that exists within human beings. As this balance begins to shift towards longer nights, we must find the courage and strength in each of us, as we naturally turn inward, reflect, and face our own darkness and challenges. Each of us has a gift to bring to the world, and we seek to honor all of each other’s gifts and encourage one another towards our full potential. Yet as the sunlight dwindles, this is the first festival in a series of festivals (Lantern Walk in November, Winter Spiral in December), that is our steadfast reminder to shine our inner light, despite the darkness, and for Michaelmas specifically, to have the courage to fully engage our will, and to face our obstacles with courage.

For the children, this message is not overtly stated, but rather, told through stories and songs of the brave and true; the grades play depicts the brave warrior battling the fierce dragon terrorizing their village, a representation of the dark side of human nature. During the season of Michaelmas, children learn, (and adults are reminded) that with great valor, dragons can be beaten. This story is truly relatable to all of humanity, a universal truth, as we all face difficulties in life, both internally and externally, and must find the inner strength to overcome our hindrances. This year we will celebrate this Saturday, 10/2. 🐉

Chalkboard art by @fyre_farye 😍
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Greetings from our Forest Kindergarten!🌳 Here t

Greetings from our Forest Kindergarten!🌳 Here they take imaginative play to a whole other level🥰

Palm fronds, pinecones, shells, sticks, moss...it's all fair game here!... and then of course put back where it can fulfill its part in ecological cycles...
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C O M M U N I T Y ... COME UNITY... Parents and

C O M M U N I T Y ... COME UNITY...

Parents and Teachers came together Friday for an evening of community, individuals meeting in harmony, all for the sake of the children in our mutual care.💕

Designed as a thinking, willing, feeling experience, parents partipated in the three foldness of what a typical school day entails for a grades child...

Discussion of our school, its core principles, and how parents can best support their child in this active, dynamic education.

Various offerings that energize our bodies and activate our will:

The grace of Eurythmy
The keen eye and nimble fingers of perspective drawing
Rediscovering the magic of childhood through a puppet story
The wonder of math
The solace of a sit spot
The challenge to our coordination and sense of body geography through a vigorous circle.

Finally our hearts were engaged through a sacred fire, singing, and the setting of intentions for our children, parents, teachers, families and community, which were placed into the fire and released into the air. 🔥

"Toward thee strives the love of my soul
Toward thee flow my loving thoughts
May they uphold thee
May they enfold thee
In heights of Hope
In spheres of Love."
~Rudolf Steiner
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Water + sand + clay + kids = sensory rich, imagina

Water + sand + clay + kids = sensory rich, imaginative, exploratory, active, FUN play.🥰

Here we have captured one of many moments of discovery from yesterday...so very frequent when kids are 💯 immersed in nature 🌳🌊
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Our brilliant fall colors.😍 No leaf changes

Our brilliant fall colors.😍

No leaf changes just yet, but a cool(ish) autumn breeze appeared just in time for a gorgeous Autumn Equinox. ☀️
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Littles at play in our Seahorse Nursery. Free, un

Littles at play in our Seahorse Nursery.

Free, unstructured, imaginative, Imitative, collaborative, active..all in a day's "work" around here.🥰

As Richard Louv has said, "The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports.

Playtime-especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play-is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development."

We couldn't agree more!😍
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The sweetest touches welcome our first graders int

The sweetest touches welcome our first graders into their class space each day. 😍

First graders feel the shift from the dreamy world of a play based day, to the challenges of multi-disciplinary organized learning, and the great task of the first grade teacher is to meet the class with tenderness, while honoring the budding forces of thinking that are beginning to look for new challenges each day.

While leading them to greater understandings and building their foundation for a lifelong love of learning, the teacher also facilitates each child becoming members of a class community that can support one another and work collaboratively towards common goals.

We are so grateful to our first grade teachers each year who take these dear children across the bridge from dreamy early childhood to more formal organized learning. It is a tremendous shift for the children, so the gentlest, loving guides for them are essential. This year, we are so lucky to have Ms Kerry, with assistance from Ms Emily.🥰🙏
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It doesn't take them long to become expert fire st

It doesn't take them long to become expert fire starters from flint and steel. 🔥

To make these moments even more endearing these 3rd and 4th graders call the palm fiber used to catch the sparks "monkey fur".😄 So often one would hear as the steadfastly strike, "More monkey fur!!" Then, "More palm frond!!", the second ingredient that then catches the tiny flames.

Excellent will work, especially given how rainy it has been, therefore difficult to find dry kindling!

Enjoy this beautiful Sunday, hopefully it finds you outside🌳
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Misty morning hike. And our favorite season of al

Misty morning hike.

And our favorite season of all is here...Forest Fridays are back!🌳

A full day of nature immersion, and a chance to hone our naturalist skills.
Today brought rain but that did not stop us from having a blast. 🥰
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