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A Visit from Baba

Date: December 4, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: child led, creativity, culture, customs, elementary, engineering, family, forum, geography, history, kindergarten, language, open-ended, reggio emilia, steam, stem, traditions

The elementary students are asked this month to investigate their family history.  In raising questions at home to determine culture,…

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The Water Cycle

Date: November 13, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, creativity, elementary, kindergarten, loose parts, reggio emilia, science, science experiment

Since the start of the school year, the Venus students expressed on-going interest in storms. Their weather journal entries have often…

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Pedagogy

Date: November 5, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, child led, creativity, reggio emilia, wonder

The pedagogical basis of the whole Reggio approach has been called the pedagogy of listening – listening being a metaphor…

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The Fall Festival

Date: October 31, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, costumes, creativity, elementary, pre-school, reggio emilia, traditions, wonder

The tradition of the Little Wonders Fall Festival traces back several years, to a little girl from the Wonderland class…

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Floating Pumpkins

Date: October 30, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: archimedes, buoyancy, child led, creativity, elementary, elementary physics, experiment, General, open-ended, physics, reggio emilia, science, science experiment, wonder

At the School of Wonders, we believe that children learn best through experience. As a result, academic lessons are purposely…

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The Importance of Engaging Community

Date: October 13, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, botany, creativity, elementary, music, reggio emilia, science

The Fall Festival is just around the corner! Just as last year, the elementary students are seizing it as an…

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The Importance of Educating Community

Date: October 6, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, creativity, music, Uncategorized

Taking care with people, and with our common spaces, is the expression of a sense of belonging and living together….

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Welcoming Rooibos

Date: September 7, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: botany, creativity, elementary, reggio emilia, science, Uncategorized

In our classroom, studying the weather is a practice that enables us to learn more about the patterns that comprise…

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Making Music with Natural Materials

Date: August 29, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: arts education, creativity, elementary, General, music, reggio emilia

Music plays a major role in our curricular model. Along with visual art, musical education grants the students a rich…

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As the season winds down,

Date: August 20, 2014 Author: Wonders Categories: General

our team is working diligently to ready for the coming school year. The classrooms were styled with utmost attention to…

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