tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283400990834363182024-02-19T22:29:05.423-08:00the ampersand<b>the lake & park school</b>Lake and Park - Eileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13483339504073402347noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-65026547854983628752020-04-09T17:53:00.000-07:002020-04-12T09:20:32.771-07:00"A Good Poem Can Jolt Our Minds"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">In early March I happened to read <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/reader-center/poetry-national-news.html" target="_blank">a </a></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/reader-center/poetry-national-news.html" target="_blank">small article in the New York Times</a> about how poetry is </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">used to start morning </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">meetings at the National Desk. It struck a note with me and came back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">to mind when Lake and Park teachers </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">gathered after our last Winterim trip to face the news that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">schools throughout Washington were closing due to Covid-19.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">We would now make plans for how </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The arts are an integral part of all
we do at Lake and Park. The walls of the classrooms and stairwell and
shared spaces are filled with student work. As children move throughout the school
building, I often overhear comments about the work. It is one of the ways we
get to know each other across the grades. Putting the children’s work up on the
wall honors the child’s effort in the creation, it inspires others to take the
risk of sharing their ideas, the risk we all take when trying to communicate.
Will I be understood? Will my idea matter? Will I be able to connect with
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">When we bring the arts into our studies,
children learn to communicate their ideas and understanding through painting,
poetry, drawing, music and dance. A major part of “learning by doing” at
Lake and Park involves the messy risk taking required when we attempt to
communicate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br />The inspiration that encourages the
necessary risk taking for learning often comes from sharing a poem. The courage
to take the risk often comes from the support we feel when learning in
community. How can we tap into our joint efforts when learning remotely? How do
we channel the bravery we see in others to create our own feeling of strength
and courage? Offering a poem each week on our School Away from School
virtual bulletin board is a small reminder that we are a community, learning
together. Read the poem together as a
family, jump rope to the poem, watch videos of your classmates reciting the
poem, make art and share it with the whole school community. Sitting with a
single poem all week allows time for the poem to blossom inside you. It may
also remind you of another poem, and if it does, share that poem with your
family. Share it with the school community on the bulletin board stream.
Make Sunday dinner the night everyone brings a poem to the table to share. Why
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School Away from School is still new to all of us. Here is some of the work from the last two weeks that children are doing with poetry. Children have used the poems as a starting place for drawing and writing their own poems.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Otherwise by Gus</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3c4043; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On my trampoline I will jump super high. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by India </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One Night I had a Dream, poem and illustration by Rhea</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that we have completed five official days of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Away from School </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">distance learning, I want to reach out to our parent community. Just one week ago, we met remotely as a faculty to discuss how we would proceed as we faced a lengthy period of school closure. Thursday and Friday of last week gave us a starting point. The first three days of this week allowed us to begin to establish a workable rhythm--how much material to present each day, how to maintain basic skills while also fostering a thematic approach, how to avoid using the computer as a main interface. (We want children working on paper with pencil more than we wish to see them writing on a screen.) Now we are getting ready to add opportunities for direct contact --Zoom or a phone call for a reading session. We will find ways to engage our very youngest learners that do not involve the computer, as receiving letters in the mail from a teacher. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A school that spends as much time as Lake and Park teaching through the “learning by doing” model must celebrate how much amazing learning by doing has taken place in just five days for everyone in our community! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> All of us are on a steep learning curve, and we are all on that curve together. From the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teacher </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who never created a YouTube video before, to the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">child</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> used to writing sentences while sitting next to peers, looking at the teacher working on a classroom whiteboard for letter formation help, to the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">parent</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the new role of crucial intermediary in all of this--we are all figuring our way into an unknown experience. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Parents have been remarkably given a likely once in a lifetime opportunity to be with their school age children in serious “prime time”. When all is said and done, and when we are back to school as normal, I think we will miss some key aspects of this time away. I think there will be some reluctance for parents in losing that primacy. (Oh, there will be some relief, too, as they return to the role of asking, “What did you do at school today?) But, in the long run, I think the reluctance will be the salient take-away. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> When we get out the clay or wood and nails, we do so knowing that the process of squeezing and hammering is the most important part of the equation. The same is true here. Lake and Park is in the experimental (and sometimes messy) first stage of the process. If we can recognize that it is a process, then we can collectively remember that every process takes time. Giving ourselves time also gives permission to figure and re-figure best approaches. Each day everyone involved--each child, each parent, each teacher--is learning how to better do “School Away from School”.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are two goals that we as teachers wish to achieve. One is to provide stimulating curricula in order to offer meaningful experiences in higher level thinking while maintaining and furthering knowledge of basic skills. The other, equally valued goal, is to allow families to take advantage of the unusual flexibility this rarity of open time (for many) allows. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We want children to continue with grade level expectations and achievements; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we have a vested interest in daily participation by everyone from first through fifth grade, even if just for an hour or two. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We also think that children will develop other skills through this process as well, such as learning how to submit labeled work to a teacher, and developing protocol for remote communication with teachers and peers. They will likely gain self reliance as they learn to manage greater periods of open time. We see them developing singular goals and interests and will facilitate those pursuits with our upcoming project theme suggestions. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because we equally value that previously mentioned flexibility, please communicate with your child’s teacher in order to adjust and amend assignments as needed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A hidden advantage of doing school at school is that children attend in a group. This has a direct benefit in many ways, an important one being that assigned work time allows for some autonomy. When there are many children participating on a creative drawing assignment, they do not feel that the eyes of the adult are on each step in the process. If the teacher is busy helping someone else figure out a math problem, others will have to work independently and try to figure out what is expected of them without immediately asking for help. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This do-it-myself habit can be harder to achieve when working at home, especially if there is just one child in the picture.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In order to allow for private time to explore in art and writing and to learn to stick with a difficult problem in math, you may wish to put on some quiet music. We do this on occasion at school when we wish to support focus and sustain concentration. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an opportunity for the parent to remove one’s self for at least half an hour in order to do some work of one’s own. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Children who finish early can check over work, or add more details, or move on to a quiet reading session, all independent of the parent. This removing of one’s self temporarily on the parent part encourages risk taking as well. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we look to the future, please know that we are officially closed through April 24th, according to Jay Inslee’s original statement regarding state school closures. However, opening school soon after that date does not seem likely. At this juncture it is our sincere hope to be back together just as soon as we are given clearance. We will continue to provide lessons through the original spring break dates. (Checks that held your child’s place for Spring Break Camp were never deposited, and will be voided.)</span></div>
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Soon after the new year began, the stairwell at Lake and Park began to fill with the world of Norse Mythology, as imagined by the students of the North Room. At the top of the rainbow bridge is Asgard, home of the Aesir. At the very top of Asgard sits Odin's throne, the Lidskjalf. From this perch, he could see the whole world.<br />
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Students were inspired to write poetry and prose in response to the stories of Norse Mythology.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Tread along </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">he moved to Asgard. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">She waves to the animals on the earth.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When she speaks her voice is like a nightingale.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> And that is the sun. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Land of the Brave</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">This is Valhalla</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">where the brave go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">chosen by the Valkyries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">after their death</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">They smell the flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">on their ascent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and taste the feasts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">whenever they please</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Preparing for the war</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">known as Ragnarok</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the war to end the world--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">this is Valhalla</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">-Teague</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midgard-the Earth<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midgard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A place of humans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kept safe by eyelashes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was made so people can </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worship the gods </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the middle of a flat disk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Leah </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cinzel, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline;">The North Wind</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As the north winds blow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">A ship made from ash and elm, and hands from long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">As the ship sits below wind and wave, storm and sky, rain and rapids,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">a fire burns, a flickering flame, and it gives light and warmth to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">those on a far off cost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And as the red flower flows, a storyteller sits, and he speaks of trolls, of Midgard, of Odin, of ships that sailed long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">-Owen</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfheim - World of the Elves<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
Alfheim</div>
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Lovely</div>
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Fun</div>
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Hidden in</div>
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Moss</div>
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-Caroline</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">This place where </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Frost Giants roam. </span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">They came from Ymir </span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the first giant to come.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Then goes Ymir.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">all the frost giants into </span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Jotunheim and that’s where</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giants and people-- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">there are none here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobody.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Nobody utters a sound,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Nobody but the gods </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">To the north was Niflheim, but to the south was Muspell, a land of burning embers, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">scorching fire, stifling black vapor, molten lava, and searing ashes. That was Muspell, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">and nothing more than that can describe it. And at the edge of all that blistering flame </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">stood Surtr, and he still stands there today, brandishing his flaming sword, waiting and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">waiting until Ragnarok, the end of the world. Then and only then will he depart his station, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "EB Garamond", serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">to flourish his sweltering sword of fire, and burn the world, and one by one all the gods will </span></span></div>
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Lake and Park - Eileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13483339504073402347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-28397789965191804652019-12-13T16:21:00.001-08:002019-12-14T08:09:41.117-08:00Lake and Park Students Travel Back in Time<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i>During the study of Prehistory the entire school spent a day at </i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">prehistory as a play on a stage and moves us from the introduction of our galaxy</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the prologue into Act I - the Paleozoic Era, with scenes of Life in the Cambrian seas, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ordovician seas, the Silurian shores the Devonian shores and on to the Carboniferous swamps and the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Permian desert. The story continues with four more acts that cover the Mesozoic Era, the Cenozoic </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Era and eventually on to the Life of Prehistoric man right up to recent times. This book was the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">major touchstone for the Lake and Park study of prehistory. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Early in the study of Prehistory Big Room students worked together<br />to create a classroom timeline from the dawn of time. They made<br />individual timelines where they recorded information which they<br />found interesting about each era.</i></td></tr>
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<i>The Very Beginners work as paleontologists, the Beginners observe bones and </i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Many parents have experienced their children’s love o</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">f </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dinosaurs. The importance of this interest is backed up by research from the University of Indiana, which</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> found “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that sustained intense interests, particularly in a conceptual domain like dinosaurs, can help</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> children develop increased knowledge and persistence, a better attention span, and deeper</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> information-processing skills. In short, they make better learners and smarter kids.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cenozoic Era. This was after the dinosaurs died out from about 40,000,000 years ago right up to 10,000 years </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ago. Each child researched a particular animal and created an exhibit to share their work with the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">larger community.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>After choosing an animal to research, students got to know them<br />from the inside out.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> UW and met with anthropologists. Everyone spent time with a group of flint knappers, who continue</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Burke Museum where the labs are all visible to museum goers. When children are exposed to</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Siobhan Brown, parent of Declan shared her experience as an<br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">archaeologist</span>.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Tom Wolken, president of the Northwest <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Paleontological</span> Society<br />visited Lake and Park and spoke to each class in a smaller setting.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Elen Feuerriegel, PhD, a research associate in the Department of<br /> Anthropology hosted the upstairs classes at Denny Hall at the UW,<br />sharing knowledge and allowing students to explore models of early <br />hominid skulls.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> an artist-in-residence, learning about the art of storytelling. While researching a particular</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> aspect of early human development, they also transformed their classroom into a cave, covering the</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i>In addition to dioramas about a particular dinosaur, <br />Beginning students also created wooden dinosaur<br />sculptures.</i></td></tr>
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"Kindergarten and first graders express themselves through play. Not play which is merely a pastime, but play which is constructive and leads through progressive stages of relationship-thinking. This kind of play needs free or raw materials which can take the impress of the user. The best of all adaptable materials seems to be blocks."</blockquote>
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How are Blocks Used at Lake and Park School? </h3>
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When walking through our classrooms, you'll notice space designated for block play. Time is reserved in the daily schedule for children to work in the block area. Blocks are sorted by size and shape and stored on shelves. Nearby shelves hold accessories that may change along with the children's interests and our thematic studies.<br />
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Traveling between classrooms and observing block play in action shows how different ages engage with blocks. Through observation and research over the last hundred years, teachers have found that young builders pass through developmental stages when using blocks, similar to those that have been documented for young artists. Below are photos of children at each stage along this continuum.<br />
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In the downstairs classrooms, we mostly see children moving through stages 1-4. Children are encouraged to build collaboratively and freely in the block area. They are frequently offered boats, cars and wooden figures to accompany their stories and dramatic play.<br />
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After several years of building with blocks in the downstairs classrooms, children move to the Big Room as accomplished builders. Here, children are frequently asked to work collaboratively to build in response to a prompt or question directly related to the school's theme of study. One such provocation might be, "<i>How can you build a car with blocks?</i>"or, "<i>How can you show the story of Raven stealing the light in the blocks?</i>" In the Big Room, children leave <span style="text-align: center;">structures up throughout the school week and return each afternoon to make adjustments or engage in symbolic dramatic play. Holding time for this each afternoon sends a clear message to children that we value the work they do when they play. This is reaffirmed when they have the opportunity to tell classmates about their work.</span><br />
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When blocks are part of the school culture, children seem to have as much satisfaction putting the blocks away as they have when building. According to Piaget, reversibility is the beginning of logical thinking. A way to observe children's ability to perceive the reverse of their sequential patterns suggests that they take down their structure in reverse of their putting it up. On Fridays, a group of mixed-aged children move through classrooms to tidy the block areas. Older children spend time with a loved material and younger children learn to stack three or four like-sized blocks in a pile to easily move to a shelf.<br />
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At Lake and Park we agree that blocks are the perfect tool for engaging children's hands, minds and imaginations. Engrossed in building with blocks, the child is a mathematician, scientist, architect, stage designer and storyteller. As children build together, they stretch and grow as problem solvers and collaborators.<br />
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As children work collaboratively, they learn to confidently initiate their ideas, solve problems, take turns, share, negotiate and compromise. Throughout this process, their language develops and relationships deepen. When they return to their projects day after day, they practice commitment and discipline. As they share their ideas and constructions with the larger class group, their self esteem grows. As they deconstruct towers, bridges, houses and forests, they learn to take responsibility and care for the materials in their space.<br />
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As children explore various thematic studies, they recreate their learning in the blocks. During our study of the Silk Road, traders on camel back traveled from town to town in the blocks. When we studied space, a large block rocket ship was boarded by astronauts. After visiting the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library, children recreated the impressive structure in the blocks, complete with people reading on the top floor. As various groups of children build similar scenes in the blocks, they learn about differing perspectives and experiences of one another.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teague builds the Elliot Bay Bookstore</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rocket ship awaits the boarding of <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skyscrapers of Seattle are connected by an airborne light rail track </td></tr>
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In addition to benefiting the emotional and social development of children, blocks serve as a powerful tool for laying the foundation of basic math and geometry. Children count constantly. They identify shapes and consider their attributes and recreate them using other shapes. Triangles fit together to create squares, for example. Children compare lengths, heights and volumes. Over time, they build structures within the same scene to a chosen scale.<br />
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Children learn to build with symmetry and in these cases are considering the aesthetic balance and appeal for their construction.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George uses each available block in a perfectly <br />
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Young children begin to intuit the mathematical relationships of the unit blocks to each other as they seek and find fractional substitutes for different shapes. When one size is no longer available, they compare the attributes of other blocks and explore equivalency.<br />
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Through repeated use of these concrete materials, children come to internalize these mathematical concepts. When they are later taught math in a more formal way, the children are given language and symbols for these concepts that they already understand intuitively.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theo carefully balances the water pipes of the Cedar River<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leah and Boden explore gravity and speed with big blocks.<br />
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Science is frequently explored in the blocks. Balance and collapse teach the nature of gravity and weight. Ramps and columns can be used to make simple overs and fulcrums; an early step in the teachings of physics.<br />
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With consecutive days spent in the blocks area, children practice trial and error and over time begin to place blocks with more precision and care, resulting in more stable structures.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">With an excitement to share their constructions, children write and attach labels to different structures. When older children build in the blocks, they look to books to research details of structures they wish to build. during our study of China, for example, children researched the Great Wall of China before building it in the blocks. As children share their block creations with others, they tell stories that are often written in journals.</span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Labels help children share the stories that take place in the blocks. At times, a structure in the block area can help a<br />
beginning writer generate ideas for a story. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitzia shares about a queen's castle with children in the Big Room</td></tr>
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The need to place blocks carefully develops hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Lifting larger blocks and carrying them across a room builds strength and coordination.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children in the Beginning Room build a house with big blocks; a task requiring planning, <br />
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Blocks can stand for an indefinite period of time. A structure may be returned to day after day for modifications. Plans can be revised, research integrated. Blocks can be moved and combined and recombined in countless ways making them an accessible medium for exploration and learning at any time of the school day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Block structures catch the early evening light after children have gone home for the day</td></tr>
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<i>Education is not an affair of telling and being told, but an active and constructive process.</i></div>
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<br />morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178512059618366786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-33218271279896105422019-08-15T14:20:00.000-07:002019-08-15T14:20:21.740-07:00Morgan's Graduation Remarks June, 2019<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The last weeks of August are a special time for teachers. Hopefully, during the summer break, we have spent some time </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">relaxing and reflecting. Now, just as we begin to need to turn on lights before dinner is over in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pacific Northwest we get excited to begin another school year. What a privilege it is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to spend nine months in a school and classroom community with children who are open to new </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ideas and eager to share their understanding with others. Each year it is a joy to welcome new </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">children and families to the school. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will we learn together? What questions will surprise us? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">How will we grow and change this year and over the next six or seven years?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Albert Einstein </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was in elementary school, there wasn’t much time for open-ended exploration of my imagination. And so, I most looked forward to the time spent between school and home: The walks to and from the bus stop passed through a forested alley, where we could pretend to be explorers, or tigers or fairies - and climb into the trees, constructing shelters from their limbs. These memories from my childhood were full of wonder, play and unpredictability. They were important because they offered an opportunity to explore my own boundaries and develop a deeper understanding of myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I began teaching at Lake and Park School the year most of our graduates began kindergarten. I recall my first days here; it was a time of transition for me. I was coming from several years of teaching in schools that prioritized academic success in core subjects above all else. The expectations placed on students to achieve and the pressure put on teachers to meet those expectations was exhausting and stifling, offering little room for exploration, questioning and creativity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I began the school year here six years ago, I planned to spend my time hanging alphabets, and sorting leveled reading books as I always had. Instead, I was tasked with setting up the block room and filling the sensory table with sand. What is the block room? I wondered. As I sat in what is now Sofia’s classroom, organizing wooden shapes onto shelves, cutting fresh flowers for tables and hanging prints of fine art from walls, I began memorizing the names of the students I’d meet in the coming days: Jordi, Rose, Ardin, Gus, Harper, Max, Lilia and Finn. Who were these children? What would they think of me? What would I think of them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you may have guessed, I didn’t teach the alphabet that first year, or handwriting, spelling, addition or subtraction. Instead, I watched them paint at easels, build towers in the blocks, asking them again, and again, and again to tell me their stories and about their art. We read poems about cats by T.S. Elliot, reenacted stories from The Odyssey, turned jump ropes to the beat of Mother Goose Rhymes, built mandalas from fall leaves, danced to the music of the Nutcracker, hunted the beach for dinosaur bones and wondered about what makes places around the world sacred. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I waited for the same children to arrive the following year, I found myself curious about what stories they’d bring to the classroom. Rather than hang behavior charts, assign workbooks and focus on the logistics of lesson-planning, I rolled spheres of clay, poured paint into glass jars, and asked you to “Create the most important part of your summer.” All the while wondering, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will emerge from these materials? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will these same children be curious about this year? What questions will we ask? Where will we go? How can I give them space for expression and play? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the years that followed, we continued to move through the classrooms together and welcome new classmates like Lenin. I have countless memories of my time with you all, that have left a lasting imprint on my own understanding of what it means to teach and learn and explore. There are some memories that hold particular weight: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Constructing volcanoes and erupting them in unison in the meadow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These days were creative, imaginative and unpredictable. From an outsider’s perspective, sometimes it seems like all we do here is play. But sometimes, it’s precisely play that gets us where we need to be; that helps us make sense of the world beyond the written and spoken realms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the time I’d spent several years with these children, I was learning about things I’d never considered before; the Iditarod, ice-core samples, how water came to earth. I looked forward to learning alongside them each morning and realized we were both searching for knowledge and greater understanding of the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I began to view them more as collaborators in a grand process of understanding. And as I did so, I found myself more frequently engaged in authentic conversations. I was curious about their thoughts, questions and stories</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One day, Finn wondered, “Why does the moon exist?” To which the circle replied, “What would happen if the moon didn’t exist?”, “Would there be tides?”, “What if there were no oceans?”, “Why are there even oceans?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next year, sitting in a circle, we wondered, “What would be the best way to study cetaceans?” Jordi suggested, “We should go see the whales.” He was right, of course. As we stood on the bow of a boat in the Salish Sea, we watched what felt like hundreds of orcas surface and make eye-contact beside us. This experience forever changed our understanding of and love for these creatures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when we studied ice, we visited a scientist in the ice core sample lab at the University of Washington. We looked at the layers of ice and listened to the scientist explain their age. Then we compared that to the age of seven. And when we multiplied seven times seven, times seven, times seven and began to understand the expanse of time and fragility of earth's climate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And when we studied mountains, you all were certain the best way to do so was to be in the mountains. And so we sat on the edge of a mountainside in silence and began to understand their glory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You have all learned how to read, write your thoughts clearly, count, add, subtract, multiply, divide, read graphs, spell and these are important skills. But you’ve learned so much more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To take a lump of moist clay and create a bowl to be used your whole life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’ve learned to see and express the essence of an animal through dance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To sit in silence and listen to the river</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You’ve experienced the exhilaration of a snow day and the disappointment of your block structure being knocked down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The knowledge you’ve gained at Lake and Park has weight because it reflects the curiosity for the world you’ve built within a safe community, where everyone struggles and resists, fails and retreats, but ultimately rejoins the struggle. Together we’ve carefully explored the boundaries of ourselves, recognizing that each of us is a link that is inextricably tied to the next. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will be remembered for particular things. As the boy dressed as a T-Rex, the girl who spoke to the animals, the young mind challenging an adult’s politics, your throw in dodge ball, your drawings of monsters or ability to dance like a zebra. But you are not just one kind of person; you are many-faceted: Imaginative, curious, loyal, caring, insightful about people, creative and wonderful story-tellers. It is sometimes tempting to think of ourselves in categories: math student, soccer player, teacher, artist, musician, writer, dancer, politician. But allow yourself to be all these things. Sing and play guitar and cook and garden and recite a Shakespeare poem and discuss the impact on society of computers, political policies, climate change and music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remain open to all the opportunities that lie ahead: this summer and next year and beyond. There is always something new to learn, always a new adventure around the corner. Fearlessness means taking the first step even if you don’t know where it will take you. And this is what you have done each day at Lake and Park. All that you have experienced here, you will use for years to come. Your time </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is your foundation and what lies ahead of you is another day of walking into the classroom uncertain of what will await you, but being brave enough to begin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The pieces that children performed on Friday, May 31, 2019 are original, to almost </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">every extent. Movements were choreographed in workshop sessions with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Morgan Padgett; she elicited the children’s ideas and helped them to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">bring their movements together into ten smooth, collaborative works, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">which, in turn, she then brought together into one larger piece. In </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">music sessions, all the children were introduced to the instruments at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">an entry level of learning to play, as the xylophones were new to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">school this spring. First exploring scale and rhythm and then playing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">several simple songs together, the children were then encouraged to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">compose melodies or rhythms to “speak” to a particular animal. Several </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">work sessions were dedicated to movement groups and music groups </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">working together to synchronize their combined efforts; modifications </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and extensions were further developed during periods of rehearsing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Each year as the teachers meet to plan out the scope and sequence of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">our thematic studies, we work to balance units throughout the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">disciplines, so the range of studies insures preparation in the arts </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and sciences. We had planned to end our work on the scientific study </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">of music, but as we got to the turn of this year, with snow days </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">definitely a factor, we realized that we needed more time to spend on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">our study of animals. We then decided to modify our original ideas </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">regarding the study of music to be less of a scientific study of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">sound, making it one that would delve into using instruments, with a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">performance as a goal. What direction that performance would take was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">open, but as teachers we all responded to a vision that Morgan had in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">regards to a vibrant, flowing work, where movement would take the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">center stage. We owe our thanks to her for taking the leadership of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">this project in both concept and realization. All teachers joined </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">efforts in support of that vision.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Children practice moving like an animal during all school gathering. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This occured during </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the beginning stages of LnP's production of Land, Water, and Sky: Walk, Swim, and Fly.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Oral interpretation--the ability to use one’s voice to express emotion </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and meaning to an audience-- is an important aspect of the language </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">arts that Lake and Park children work on throughout the year. (It is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">when reading aloud their own poetry that they are able to develop this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">expressiveness, which then opens them to considering how to interpret </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">poetry written by others.) This work is a piece that showcases not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">only poetry, but highlights factual information. Thus, integral to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">production is the behind-the-scenes work that took place each </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">afternoon for several weeks in mixed aged “homeroom groups”. In these </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">animal groups, children studied and created together. They developed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">games that incorporated possible scenarios about the animal they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">studied, while learning of the whole sweep of migration. </span><br />
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Camps are special at Lake and Park because children and teachers get to work with each other in new configurations. We began with a discussion about what we know about <span class="il">silent</span> <span class="il">films</span> and what we wonder; children collectively knew a lot and wondered a lot, as well.</div>
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We looked at Sendak's <i>In the Night Kitchen</i> through new eyes, looking for comedian Oliver Hardy in the role of each of the three bakers and then watched three short <span class="il">silent</span> <span class="il">films</span> featuring both Laurel and Hardy in the early years of their careers.</div>
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As we learned about the evolution of still photography to moving <span class="il">film</span>, we created "twisters" to show how moving two pictures quickly on a dowel caused the pictures to blend together. We made flip books, another aide to understanding animation.</div>
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We combined our efforts to produce a simple video in <span class="il">silent</span> <span class="il">film</span> fashion, based on an old song, "She Sat in the Hammock", which we altered to "She Sat in the Armchair"; the show starred Tillie, and Gus, was directed by Owen, <span class="il">filmed</span> by Rowan, with props made by River and Yael. Everyone sang as Bruce played the guitar. After a week of collobration and production, we enjoyed a matinee viewing of three silent films.<br />
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Camps are a time for children to focus intensely in a thematic study with other children across the grades. It is wonderful to see children encourage growth and development in creativity and expression among each other.<br />
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Click on this <a href="https://youtu.be/RROUh9DIEQM" target="_blank">link </a>to enjoy the three silent films children created;<i> The Man with a Burned Face, How to Make a Silent Film, and Who Did It? </i>Quynh Caohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14472723479772441807noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-90634203899571518582019-03-28T08:23:00.000-07:002019-03-28T15:44:35.610-07:00Hallway of Mirrors: A Celebration of Poetry <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During the month of March, we welcomed writer and teaching artist, Samar Abdul, into classrooms twice a week. Remembering her from last year, children joyfully welcomed her back into the school. For five weeks, they explored several different forms of poetry under her guidance. Children wrote about their favorite places, important memories, experimented with similes and played with two-voice poetry. At the end of five weeks, each child chose one or two poems to share with families at the end of March during our annual poetry reading. These chosen poems were beautifully written and performed. They are shared below. </div>
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It is the annual fund that makes inviting teaching artists, such as Samar, into Lake and Park to work with the children possible. Thank you families, for your generous donations and for making experiences such as these possible. </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This years poetry slam was wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed it last year. It was my favorite L&P parent event and I feel the same this year. This school always continues to impress me. I think of my education as a child and the poetry my kids are reading would have been considered too advanced for my age. These kids think wide open and I love that. The poetry event was so much fun as I loved to hear how these kids think. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm reflecting on why we admitted Jordi to L&P when he was in pre-k. There were so many wonderful things we saw in Jordi and at the same time they were the same things that other teachers/pre-k schools found discouraging about him. Camille saw something in him when she assessed him that no one else saw. Jordi wouldn't be the wonderful student and kid he is today if it hadn't been for the wonderful teachers and staff at L&P. </span></i></div>
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<br />morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178512059618366786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-49309221089642794542019-03-18T15:07:00.000-07:002019-03-18T15:07:02.190-07:00Thoughts about Conservation by North Room Students<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every year National Geographic Live invites students in the Seattle area to attend special student matinees to meet Conservationists, naturalists and photo journalists. The North Room responded to a presentation they saw with research, writing and oil pastel paintings. Enjoy!<br />
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Conservation is preserving, protecting and caring for Earth's life and natural resources, the resources we use in our daily life. Like wood, food, gas and fossil fuel. We don't realize the harm we do to the earth and it causes lots of problems. Because we burn the fossil fuels it breaks down the ozone layer and this causes global warming. Because of global warming the ice caps are melting and it takes away so many places for animals and life. When people cut down wood for houses and industries it takes away the forests to cleanse the air and not only that it takes away the homes for almost all the the population of animals. <br /><br />The Giant Panda was going through a similar problem. It had been endangered for many years. Its bamboo forests were being cut down for food or art and they were suffering. People started to realize it and began reinforcing them and setting boundaries on the bamboo forests. They protected them and they started to grow in population and are almost fully recovered. What they did with the panda is 100% conservation. Not only did people protect and care for the panda they brought the population back to healthy state. <br /><br />If people can get the giant pandas to a good state I think people are very capable of getting other animals and the life on earth into a good state too. If we can start realizing what we are doing and we do something about it we can protect the earth. By planting trees and restoring habitats and stopping the burning of fossil fuels we can do it. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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We can help animals like frogs by conserving tropical forests. People are cutting down trees to use as fuel or lumber for housing and that is destroying their habitat. I recommend not cutting down trees or polluting water and air. That in itself helps so many animals. That’s conserving to save animals and wildlife. By helping frogs, you help other animals who share the same habitat. So if we save frogs we save so many animals because of the food chain because frogs eat insects and other animals eat frogs<br /><br />In conclusion, do not use too much CO2, also known as carbon dioxide. It comes from burned fossil fuels which comes from coal, gas, and oil. Do not pollute and help conserve.<div>
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You know how people say, “the sun will make the earth set on fire and kill us” they’re actually half right? The real answer is, no, we’re killing ourselves. I know it might seem crazy, but who’s burning the fossil fuel that will destroy the ozone layer? Us. we’re burning it. We’re killing ourselves. So how can we stop it? Well, conservation. <div>
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<br />There are two kinds of resources: renewable resources such as water, air, food, and materials; and nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels and minerals. We use renewable resources the most, but we still use nonrenewable resources, too. You are burning fossil fuels on every drive in your car or cooking on gas stoves. Even this is enough to deteriorate the ozone layer to become harmful to humans.</div>
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<br />To conserve these resources, we need to use only what is necessary and not waste anything. For example, you could turn off your car when stopped or take public transportation. You could use less water. To save the planet, we can all try to reduce our carbon footprint using the methods above. <br />
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Conservation is protecting the life around us and letting it live. It is important because without it, millions of living things all around the world could be gone, and us humans would have to live with the fact that it was our fault. Eventually every single species would be wiped out, until the only ones left would be us and the ones cloned and engineered. We would never get to feel the wonders of nature again. There would be no pine forests filled with water falls, squirrels, or birds. We would never see the world at it’s purest. Is that the world you want to give to your children? Would that world appeal to them? Already hundreds of species go extinct every year. You can contribute in reducing that number down to zero through conservation.</div>
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<br />The animal I have drawn is a poison dart frog. Poison dart frogs are happiest when the air in their environment is clean and unpolluted, as poison dart frogs breathe through their skin. Poison dart frogs have enough poison to kill 10 grown humans, or 20,000 mice. Poison dart frogs are critically endangered due to the loss of rain forest habitat. <br /><br />I recommend helping by planting trees, reusing all sorts of things like paper, cardboard, bags (both plastic and paper). More options are picking up trash, not buying ivory and illegal animal products, using sustainable development to thrive, becoming vegetarian, and encouraging others to do the same. Sustainable development is building without hurting our environment and the things that live in it. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzShj0D2DLAqZVP0DsLVu2Z3bWkM_NivZNF7FRfXUS1FAjdgqfIyYA2HZdDft2_2pDvZlBl_ku3Nh5O5gjeIlWLeI3-V-Ddwijz5A3a4CihqahK0ln4hnfwgJ-AsiKFh4WX2ljKUKL8Q/s1600/ianturtle.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzShj0D2DLAqZVP0DsLVu2Z3bWkM_NivZNF7FRfXUS1FAjdgqfIyYA2HZdDft2_2pDvZlBl_ku3Nh5O5gjeIlWLeI3-V-Ddwijz5A3a4CihqahK0ln4hnfwgJ-AsiKFh4WX2ljKUKL8Q/s320/ianturtle.JPG" /></a><br />
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<br />Conservation is protecting something so it does not become extinct. It is important because many animals need to be protected. They are dying due to poaching, over-hunting, habitat destruction, and many other reasons.<br /><br />The orca, for example, is eating plastic in the water that is making it sick. Because it is sick, it does not eat the salmon it needs, and the orca starves to death. Plastic is killing many other animals and we need to do something to help.<br /><br />One way we can help is using reusable items instead of plastic. Some things we can use are metal water bottles and reusable shopping bags. We can also help by cleaning up beaches. If we all pitched in it would benefit many animals. <br />
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Conservation is leaving animals in their natural habitats and letting them be wild. Conservation is also not littering and not cutting down trees. People are cutting down trees for lumber and places to develop houses. If we cut down lots of trees then animals don’t have shelter and if animals don’t have shelter then they won’t live. If we litter then the animals might get caught in the trash. For example, sometimes when you go to the beach for a picnic you can forget to pick up your plastic bags that holds your food. Dolphins and sea turtles can get caught in them and if they get caught in them they can choke. <br /><br />If we leave animals in their natural habitat then they will have a chance to be wild. Even if the animal is realy cute like the sloth you still shouldn’t try to keep it. Conservation is important because if we didn’t conserve our beaches, oceans, forests, or deserts then we wouldn’t have as many animals as we do today.</div>
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Currently conservation is a large topic in politics but most politicians don’t take much action to help animals or forests. The sea otter is endangered and their population is still declining; the reason I am informing you of this is that these otters play a key role in the environment by protecting kelp forests, these kelp forests are home to many fish and crustaceans, besides that they also sequesters carbon dioxide. The way these otters help these forests is they eat sea urchins that eat the kelp.<br /><br /> It used to have numbers in the hundreds of thousands but is now about three thousand or so; its fur was highly valued in the 18th-20th century so it population declined by a very large amount, the fur trade had a big part in that but when Fur Seals were no longer allowed to be hunted the Otter was banned from hunting as well.<br /><br />Their population has been slowly increasing but still needs more help; you can help by leaving them alone if you find some or if you see plastic in any body of water just pick the plastic up. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6JgV2cwAjZ8PF9OpQvnhfxXVJHrmRFXoFpn27HtLCqH8tECMu-A0eqiN2QadZ0HM_TedYHOPB6U6XMuQZPf9mJry2AOuj_7Pl6yk20LJpvhjDEIa_sEU7Z8ViLjZgZIqJMZQfcu55g/s1600/rheaelephant.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6JgV2cwAjZ8PF9OpQvnhfxXVJHrmRFXoFpn27HtLCqH8tECMu-A0eqiN2QadZ0HM_TedYHOPB6U6XMuQZPf9mJry2AOuj_7Pl6yk20LJpvhjDEIa_sEU7Z8ViLjZgZIqJMZQfcu55g/s320/rheaelephant.JPG" /></a><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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Elephants are the cutest animals on the planet, at least I think so. I mean, the babies suck their trunks for comfort. How cute is that?! But they are in danger. People are killing them for their tusks. We can help by not buying ivory. If we don't buy ivory, they won't kill the elephants to sell it. <br /><br /> Elephants aren't the only animals on the endangered list. Whales, dolphins, and many ocean friends are in trouble, too. We can help this by not polluting the beaches, recycling, and encouraging others to do so, too. We also can help by taking shorter showers because that saves water. Conservation is when you do little things that add up to the good thing of saving the environment. Conservation is a good thing, so lets start conserving!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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One thing you can do to help save pandas and other animals is to donate to conservation organizations that help animal habitats so that people do not cut them down. A thing we can do that will help all animals is to take shorter showers to save water. We can also do less driving to reduce greenhouse gases. It is important to do this because if we don’t many animals can go extinct.<br />
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Hedgehogs are largely domesticated animals; they have been for nearly 30 years. There are more hedgehogs living in people’s houses than there are in the wild. If we don’t save the remaining hedgehogs living in the wild, the population of other animals that eat hedgehogs will decrease, and that will affect other animals and so on.<br /><br />Their natural habitats are hedgerows, meadows and woodlands in Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand. We can help hedgehogs by avoiding littering, plowing or making buildings in that type of area. You can also build a garden and a hedgehog or two might come and live in it for a while, that way you don’t have to have one as a pet and still be able to see them. <br /></div>
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If you already have a domesticated hedgehog as a pet than do not let it go. If you do, it will probably die of starvation or it will get hit by a car. The reason for this is that it has not had any experience surviving by itself in the outside world, and it does not know what is safe to do. For example, if a hedgehog sees some food across the road, it will follow its instincts and cross the road, and a person in a car will not see the hedgehog and run over it.<br /><br />And, finally, if you see a hedgehog in the wild and you love it, let it stay there, that is where it will be happiest.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBolsRSf8ebL0HuCGZZOzZR2bAD-buNEXPpI-UoXyuE7bTH3pL6WYU_R0UUT4tPQ5CteBjsT-iNri5219aNdlaADqb51bmnaUz3n0bqI8ZXOW1Kp7QaOG3UMgiZMeezx9wf41mmLL2Q/s1600/leahbug.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBolsRSf8ebL0HuCGZZOzZR2bAD-buNEXPpI-UoXyuE7bTH3pL6WYU_R0UUT4tPQ5CteBjsT-iNri5219aNdlaADqb51bmnaUz3n0bqI8ZXOW1Kp7QaOG3UMgiZMeezx9wf41mmLL2Q/s320/leahbug.JPG" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Don’t be a meadow stomper! A meadow stomper is a person who does not stay on the trails when hiking. I learned this at Mount Rainier because my family goes camping and hiking there. The reason they want people to stay off the trails is so the animals can build their habitats where they like. <br /><br />I drew a picture of a lady bug on a leaf because I like the red color and how they come to you. They are not afraid of you. They are fun to spot when hiking. We can help the lady bug by leaving enough leaves to eat and play on together. If people pick up a stones and plants, it will ruin the view for other hikers and animal’s habits. <br /><br />Conservation is protecting plants and animals. We have to protect the environment, too. That means keeping our water clean by not littering on beaches and keeping trashes out of the sewers. This will help keep the salmon population alive. Conservation is very important because if we don’t have fresh water, we won’t have salmon, and the bears need salmon to be healthy. We have to protect the animals and plants so the food chain doesn’t break and all animals can survive. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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You can help the dolphins and many other animals by keeping trash out of the ocean. This is bad because all the dolphins are thinking that trash is food and eating it and dying from it. <br /><br />Conservation is not taking wild animals and preserving natural habitats. I hope that no one will throw trash in the ocean and on the beaches. It’s also preserving animal habitats and not destroy land for businesses because that destroys animal habitats.<br /></div>
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To help animals, I suggest we don’t throw trash in the ocean because fish will eat it and die from it. Don’t throw trash on the beach because turtles will eat it and choke. Don’t cut trees down because it <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">ruins animal habitats. Preserve animal habitats so they have a place to live and not get attacked.</span></div>
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<br />Conservation is about keeping living things from becoming extinct. Biodiversity is important. It is important because we need different species of animals. And some species need others to survive.<br /><br />For example, the great white shark needs fish, sea otters, and seals to survive. If these prey become extinct, the great white shark would starve and maybe become extinct too.<br /><br />People hunt sharks for their fin and teeth. To prevent that type of hunt I recommend that we stop buying things that have shark teeth or shark fins. This will help by giving the hunters no more money. Then they’ll think it is useless and they would not hunt sharks anymore. We must learn to coexist with other species.<br />
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What is conservation?<br /><br /><br />Right now you might be thinking,“Who doesn’t know what conservation is ?” You’ll be surprised when I say that some people don't know what conservation means. To me conservation means protecting something that means a lot to you. For instance let’s say you love the whale but you decided to help the hawk, I mean I’m not saying it wouldn’t be good, it would! I’m just saying it would be harder to get excited about it or to get other people excited about it. <br /><br />Why do we conserve?<br /><br /><br />We conserve to help, to give salvation. Why do we do that, you ask? We do that so that our favorite animals can live on! We also conserve so that we can live on. An example is:<br /></div>
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Bees,<br /><br />If bees were extinct, humans would probably have died out too because we wouldn’t have enough fruits and veggies to eat.<br /></div>
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How can we help?<br /><br />We can help by: using our resources wisely, not throwing plastics into the ocean, not polluting waters and not taking animals from their natural habitats. I help cheetahs by not taking them out of their natural habitat.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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Conservation is caring for animals and their habitats, because if an animal is not cared for they could go extinct. We can care for animal’s habitats by not cutting down trees and preventing forest fires. <br /><br />Conservation is not wasting things that could be used again, because if you throw something away that is renewable it's wasting. It ends up in the dump and rots for a long time and its bad for the environment. Then all the gases like methane and carbon dioxide goes into the air and we breathe it in, and it can make us sick. The gases can get into the animal's lungs like the caracal for instance. It’s lungs can get infected and hurt them. Or its prey could get sick and go extinct, then the caracal wouldn't have any food to eat and it will die out. <br /><br />To conserve wildlife and keep pollution out of our air here are some things I recommend to do. Try to drive less and use bikes or just use our feet. Protect all animals, and if you love it let it be wild. Develop resources and give sufficient habitats to animals. Contribute money to environmental communities and help get the harmful gases out of the air. <div>
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Conservation is helping animals by protecting them. We can protect them from things like poachers and illegal hunting. Conservation is important so that animals lives aren’t threatened and they don’t go extinct. My animal is the Goffin's cockatoo. These birds are near threatened because a lot of people are cutting down trees where they live. It is important to me because it is a unique bird. Unlike normal cockatoos their head feathers can be up or down. They can see colors better than humans. <br /><br />We can protect animals and their environment by not littering. We can keep plastics out of the ocean. For example, my dad cuts up the plastic rings so that raccoons won’t choke on them or turtles won’t get their feet or their head stuck in them. We can help animals by keeping trees healthy and not cutting them down so they have a place to make a nest.<br /><br />Conservation<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_aKFMyt4hV11taIyrSjt-fN2bV0fC_U7TILu8d4_K_AwEBS9jS6ClQIFW2dDkl4fDcYLLrBRJadS_5wS2vy1805dZ_iafDlqXEQ7m9PmtSnOqjCa2Tw743jtiN-v_Ocb1dTQ8f8sRFg/s1600/IMG_0161.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_aKFMyt4hV11taIyrSjt-fN2bV0fC_U7TILu8d4_K_AwEBS9jS6ClQIFW2dDkl4fDcYLLrBRJadS_5wS2vy1805dZ_iafDlqXEQ7m9PmtSnOqjCa2Tw743jtiN-v_Ocb1dTQ8f8sRFg/s320/IMG_0161.jpg" /></a><b id="docs-internal-guid-0a48fc81-7fff-0e49-64cc-8cc096a82b39" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conservation to me is super important because conserving could save an entire species from extinction. For example the anaconda cobra or the great panda. One way you</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "amatic sc"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "comfortaa"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can help conserve is using reusable straws. Or you can use fishing nets as a beach blanket. People have taken fishing nets and turned them into blankets. Seriously. People have told fisherman to give them all their abandoned fishing nets. In fact people have collected enough nets to go around the world four times. It basically saves sea animals like seals from getting caught in fishing nets. </span></div>
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Have you ever seen a wild animal that’s cute, weird, or cool and said, “Can I take it home?” Well I definitely have, but even if it’s cute, weird, or cool, leave it there!!! As a saying I’ve heard from many people, “If you love it, leave it” and it's true!!! If you really love an animal leave it in its natural habitat!! So the next time you see a cool animal don’t take it because you can probably just find a stuffed animal version of it. <br /><br />When we leave animals in the wild, we are conserving them. Conservation is important because we don’t want to have sloths (or other animals) to become endangered by people taking them and hunting and killing them. Conservation is protecting animals all over the world. We can also help by conserving their habitats. Sloths live in the jungles of Costa Rica and the people are cutting down the forests to use for lumber, so they don’t have a place to live. But you can help by getting involved like funding groups that plant trees in Costa Rica.<br /><br />Here are some ways that you can conserve:<br /><br />1. You can try to cut down on paper use is your house by reusing a piece of instead of tacking a new one.<br />2. If you local grocery store gives out plastic or paper bags you can bring a cloth reusable bag next time.<br />3. You can also just go out in your neighborhood and pick up trash on beaches or at parks and just in wildlife in general.<br /><br /></div>
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the eve of October 24, the Lake and Park community came together for our annual
Hoedown event. The students had all spent their Tuesday afternoons and
Movement times practicing their <i>do-si-dos</i> and <i>allemande lefts</i>. Wednesday night we saw the biggest Hoedown turnout yet, with students
dancing with family members and classmates. This year we had Charmaine </span></div>
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Bonnie Zahnow provided some lively music for us to dance to. Before the set began, they could be seen leading some of
our own musicians in a rendition of <i>Buffalo Gals</i>. We saw members of the Lake and Park community that have recently continued on elsewhere; it was wonderful to see that, though they have moved on,
they still came back to join us, to catch up with old friends and teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A huge thank you to Sarah Bryc and to the other committee
members that made this night possible. All the work Sarah did setting up and keeping
dinner and dessert going is very much appreciated. Another thank you goes to
Annie Musselman for taking photos of our families. And yet another thank you to all the
parents and family members who provided the delicious food and eating utensils.
The success of this night is because it is the whole community who comes
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<span style="font-size: large;">spend our days farming, it is still necessary for us to put down our work and appreciate spending time with one another. The joy we see on everyone’s face as they laugh over a bowl of chili, or try and duck under a small archway during the Virginia Reel, is why we do this every year. Too often the stresses of life can set in and the day to day can feel too routine; to have a night where we can simply enjoy ourselves is what makes this one so special. </span><span style="font-size: large;">We look forward to seeing you all next year! </span><div>
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Kim Martinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17195895611696907758noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-23601951260102883622018-06-14T15:30:00.000-07:002018-06-14T15:30:56.122-07:00The 2018 Graduation and Summer Send-off Celebration<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The end of the school year is filled with many traditions at every school. At Lake and Park we celebrate the graduates and send the whole school off for the summer with a community celebration. Graduating students reflect on their time at the school and share their thoughts in a speech. Below are this year's graduates reflections, in order of appearance in the photograph from left to right.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started at Lake and Park in 1st grade and have been here ever since. It’s a good school and I’m sad to leave. I’ve done everything here from whale watching, and skiing to, digging clams, and seeing plays. If I’ve learnt anything at Lake and Park it’s that it’s ok to be yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here at Lake and Park we’ve studied everything from soccer to botany. My favorite was the physics study. We used ramps, and Hot Wheels to show gravity, and the fifth graders hosted a science fair. I was in third grade and I was very impressed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back in first grade I loved our Greek mythology study. I drew myself as Dionysus, the god of wines, and one of the lesser known gods. I loved learning all of the Greek Myths, some of the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 years ago we had an ocean study when we did group presentations. I wrote about ancient Nautiloids. If I learnt anything during this study itś that you can bridge studys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another study I liked and want to mention is the mycology study in the fall of my fourth grade year. Mushrooms are one of the most unchanged things in the world. They are pretty much prehistoric. I liked all the fun times we had outside during that study. We went on mushroom walks and spent a day at Seward Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lake and Park has helped me unlock my brain by letting me learn at my level. I have come to understand that quality is better than quantity. I believe that everyone can learn tons. They just have to unlock the part of their brain that lets them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m sad that I’m going to leave my friends. I’m going to Leadership Preparatory Academy or Lead Prep school. I’m happy because it is basically Lake and Park school for 6th to 12th grade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you to my class and to Quynh, Kristina, Eileen, and Andy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is George and I’ve been at Lake and Park for 8 years. I have learned so much at Lake and Park, everything from ancient Greece to the Silk Road and from oceans to electricity and Physics. I would love to go in to detail about each unit but that would take forever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My three favorite units are the Silk Road, Botany and the Ocean. Last year we studied the Silk Road. I like learning about the diversity and culture of the region. It was dangerous travelling through the desert but it was also rewarding learning about the different foods, dances, religions and goods. It was the only way information and ideas could travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loved the Botany unit this fall. We learned so much about simple and unique plants and how they connect to fungus and animals. I loved the fact that we learned how plants make their food, how they pollinate other plants and how important sunlight and water is to make a plant grow. Also how important it is to conserve plants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My other favorite unit was the Ocean unit. I like the ocean because it had tons of life, coral reefs and sharks and interesting fish the farther you go down. It really is an exploration. We have only seen 5% of the ocean so far. During that study I became an artist and made one of my best paintings of a squid including all of its’ tentacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thinking back over the years I’ve had a really nice time at Lake and Park and so many funny memories. During the Silk Road study we were doing a play. We were choosing roles. I wanted to be the servant to the queen of the mongols but I didn’t get that role. One role that nobody wanted was that of the merchant's wife. I took that role. I was willing to do it, it was a girl’s role but I decided to take it. After school I asked my mom to buy me a wig. We looked at wigs for awhile and chose a curly black wig. Then we looked for Chinese women’s clothing. We found the perfect dress robe. On the night of the performance I did my role so well that even Camille thought I was a new student. As I took my bow, the wig fell off and everyone laughed with surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize now that when I first came to Lake and Park I was a bit self-centered. I even circled every picture of myself in our first yearbook. Looking back I hate that I did that, but it does show me how much I’ve grown. I’ve learned to respect other people and to see the value of different personalities in a school. It is not all about me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year Quynh and Camille have been helping me a lot with getting ready for middle school and preparing for the ISEE. I’m glad I was at this school this year getting ready to go to Middle School because I felt supported and even had some fun and got into a nice school. Quynh has helped me a ton this year. She is always nice and friendly and has helped with everything from spelling to math to writing. She makes jokes and is a great friend and teacher. Thank you, Quynh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve had a great time at Lake and Park. I am sad to leave and in some ways I wish I had another year but I know I will have a great time at my next school. I will always look back at Lake and Park as a great beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have had some extraordinary years here at Lake and Park. I'll jump right in by saying that Lake and Park has the most incredible teachers I will ever meet. Quynh broadened my understanding of math, Eileen taught me how to be a good person in general, Andy even taught me how to tie my shoes! Before I go on I would like to thank the teachers for their flexibility, encouragement, and rigor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There have been many units of study during my years at Lake and Park but for me one stands out. In 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">nd </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">grade we had a study of religion, I was placed in the Hinduism group. It was my first chance to work with older students. We read books and focused on our assigned religion so much I felt like I myself was Hindu! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Lake and Park School we play lots of sports, from baseball and soccer to Ultimate and badminton. Playing these sports with my good friends has made me a better sport, on and off the playing field. One thing about sports here at Lake and Park is that everyone honors everyone's opinion, so if there is a debate over a play everyone gets heard. My favorite sport that we play at Lake and Park is Ultimate Frisbee because it's a very friendly game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another reason I love this school so much is because of the fun kids. I remember my first day at Lake and Park, knowing only 2 or so kids. That day was not awkward or uncomfortable, the kids were welcoming and kind and I felt included. As I go to middle school next year I am confident that I will bring that lesson in kindness to my new school. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">My last 4 years here have been full of fun times with kids and teachers alike. As I move on I hope that other kids can get the opportunity to go to this amazing school. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My past 5 years here at Lake and Park have been fun, exciting and extraordinary. We’ve been to the tops of mountains and to the ocean shore. We’ve gone to farms, temples and churches. Some of the units that stand out are the study of Greek mythology, the ocean and botany. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friendliness, excitement, and happiness for learning are the three qualities I feel I have gained here at Lake and Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We create </span><span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">excitement</span><span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for most people at Lake and Park through the things we do, the field trips we take and the projects we make. I have gotten to know the neighborhood better by going to places we’ve been together year after year, like Seattle Center, the garden, Issaquah Creek, the library, and woodworking at Franklin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think everybody has helped me understand the importance of knowledge, literature, math, and reading, and art. I feel </span><span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a happiness for learning, </span><span style="font-family: "fondamento"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now- after this school has taught me all of these things. I would like to thank all of the teachers and kids for encouraging me through the years. And I hope that all of you will continue to feel the friendliness, happiness and excitement for learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back when I first came here, back on my first day, I knew almost no one. So, me and some other kids, we got together and played a game. Short, I know. That was the first time I ever made friends at this school. I was very young back then, and that was only my first day. I remember a lot of old friends from back then, Thomas, Phin, Ted, and George, are only a few of them. Once I made friends here things were so much easier. They really helped me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the teachers… I owe them a lot. Through the years they taught me cursive, how to read, long division, how NOT to fit a square peg in a round hole, ok maybe not that far back but you get the idea. This place has had a lot of amazing events and subjects like the salmon release or the Lake and Park anniversary that recently happened this year. I want to thank all the teachers who taught me so much. I want to thank all my friends who helped me through my time at Lake and Park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And… I want to thank my family. You know, not many kids get a chance like this, so I want to thank my family for making me this lucky, to be apart of this. When I’m off to another school I’ll be saying, “Wow, this is a lot different from Lake and Park School”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Madeleine </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year has been good, crazy and funny, but most importantly amazing. I’ve made memories I will never forget and bonds that will never break. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just want to start off by saying how amazing and supportive all the teachers are and how much they care about giving us a good education. They’ve really helped me grow, and not just with math and writing, but also with learning how to be a better person. I want to give a special thanks to Quynh, Eileen, Kim, Maudie, Andy and Camille. For always being there when I need help or have a question. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Lake and Park I not only learn from the teachers but from the students. For example, I was having some trouble with a math problem so I asked Nadia for help and she quickly accepted. Another example of when a classmate helped me out is when I was working on a piece of artwork and I wanted to add a little more to it, Sophia gave me a suggestion. My classmates also make me feel better when I’m sad or have a problem. Going into middle school I will bring that caring and positive attitude.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the studies that I really enjoyed is the Writing/Poetry unit. My favorite part was the silent walk with Samar because I learned to take things in and appreciate them more. I hope I remember to do that in the future. The poetry Bazaar gave me a sense of what it was like to run a business. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was my first year doing downhill skiing. At first it was really tricky and I felt like I didn't want to do it but, when I went the next time it got easier and then I started having fun. I was so excited that I got it and that I learned to seize the opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year has been amazing I wish I wasn’t leaving, but this is just the beginning to what I hope will be a better, brighter future. I’m so grateful that I got to meet all these nice, considerate and respectful people at Lake and Park. I can't thank them enough for all that they did for me. Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my first day at Lake and Park School I was nine years old, I was excited and nervous at the same time as I walked up the stairs to the North Room. When I met my teacher Quynh I was surprised by her positive attitude and warm personality and I immediately liked her. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got to know everyone and was happy to be accepted into such an awesome group so fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That fall my mom was diagnosed with Leukemia, my whole family was shocked and worried, and my anxiety made it hard for me to go to school and made it even harder to sleep. At first I didn't want to go to school, but I soon learned school would help me relax without having to worry about my mom. As my mom got better I felt better too, and I found learning about what was happening to her helped me, along with visiting her a lot. My mom got better very fast and is sitting here today, the people at Lake and Park are rock stars at getting people to feel better!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That same year we had the Silk Road study, in the play I was the Chinese Princess and I remember having a very hard time fake crying, as desperate as it was to look real, it was utterly hilarious and I would end up laughing into my hands instead of crying. That play was my first play and will always be the best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In that same study we used scrolls to write a make believe story about ourselves on the Silk Road, my partner was Nadia and I absolutely loved it because I love imagining all the possibilities and I am proud to say that Nadia and I explored every corner of it, from a 1,000 mile hike to a camel </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">named Sandy, lets ride!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Then came the graduation of Reese, Max, Roham, and Iris, that was when I realized I would be in the next group to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> After having a great summer I returned to Lake and Park for my second year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the things I really remember from this year was going to the Little Prince play at Seattle Children's Theater. We were partnered up with the children from downstairs who would be our buddies for the field trip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> And finally my teacher Quynh, Quynh I can not believe the support you’ve given me, you have the most fun and energetic personality I can think of, you are so supportive and kind to everyone, and I’m going to say this now that you made school, like going to see a good friend and you will always be the best teacher I had. Thank you for everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is Nadia and I have been at Lake and Park for six years. From my first day to my last I have had teachers to support me and friends to make me laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my first day I met Olivia who became my best friend. We were always laughing and playing together, in fact we were together so much that people would mistake us for sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In first grade I met Quynh my teacher who taught me to love math and numbers and that there can be more than one right answer to a question. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">That year I learned to read and the squiggles in books took shape into stories and poems. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I learned to read it felt like the whole world made sense at last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In third grade we were out and about a lot. We went whale watching for our ocean study we saw a few whales and lots of seals. We also went to the Nordic museum during our study of immigration. From being out so much I learned that learning does not always have to take place in a classroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I am in fifth grade and I have memorized the multiplication tables and learned about the ways different cultures interpret the constellations. We did a play about the constellations. I was in a group with Griffin and Maisie. We were studying Africa and it was interesting to learn about how they thought that the stars are hedgehog like creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have studied lots of amazing and enlightening subjects which all seem to relate to each other. And I have mentioned only some of my wonderful teachers and kind friends. In all my six years I have never been alone. I’ve had friends and teachers that make learning fun and interesting, so I’d like to thank them for all they have done for me. When I leave this school for the last time I know I won’t forget my time here and what it has taught me. Thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During my time at The Lake and Park School, I read a lot. I became obsessed with the Warriors series, maybe some of you have read them, but if not I highly recommend it. Within a few months I had read all thirty four books, enjoying each and every one of them. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t gone through them so fast, much like how I wish my time at The Lake and Park School hadn’t passed by so quickly. Even though it did go by faster then I wanted it to, I have so many amazing memories to keep and cherish, and friends to remember them with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the big parts of my experience here has been my teacher Quynh. She is always very supportive and has the coolest ways of teaching us things, she taught the class math songs and counting tricks to help us memorize our sevens and eights. Quynh even came up with my nickname “Pip pip” or sometimes “Pip pip hooray”. She is always there for me, cracking jokes when I most need them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year we played a lot of soccer games, and of course, Andy was the commentator. He had the silliest names for everyone. Griffin was Gryffindor, Julian- J Pod, Keefe- Keefer, Ted-Ted cheddar, and Roham was Rohammer. All the names were strangely clever, when Andy starts up with his humor, he can get anyone laughing.This year we played soccer games too, I had some really fun times cracking jokes with Ayar while she lounged in the goal. It makes me laugh just thinking about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> One of my favorite parts about the Lake and Park School is the units of study. I enjoyed everyone of them yet, one remains my favorite, and that is The Silk Road Unit. I think I liked it the most because it was so active. We did so many interesting things, including the Bazaar and the play. I loved the play because of the costumes and the set we made, I was a jade seller and had a box that said jade on it. Except I colored the e in jade yellow so it looked like jad. To add to that, nobody told me until after the performance. It was embarrassing, but now I just laugh about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most importantly, I made friends here. And they will continue to be my friends, I want to thank them, for being there for me and just having a great time. I also want to thank all the teachers at Lake and Park, they always make me smile and answer any question I may have. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this last year at Lake and Park I’ve really been thinking about all the great friendships and amazing teachers and many many wonderful memories and things that I have learned. My first project I worked on in first grade was the bunny study. We all chose a different breed of bunny to study. Lots of things came out of that experience. I think the most important one was learning how to work and have fun at the same time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To me, making friends has always been easy and I am very thankful for all the friends I have at Lake and Park and I will be sad to leave them behind. But I know I will make new friends and never forget the ones I had here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to thank Quynh and Camille for getting me and everyone else ready for Middle school. I want to thank them for helping me to prepare for my middle school test. I want to thank Eileen for helping me with this speech and being the best lit group teacher I have ever had. And lastly I want to thank all the teachers in the Lake and Park school for how amazing they are. I’m going to miss the Lake and Park school but I will always carry it in my heart... Thank You </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I first came to Lake and Park I was in Camille’s class . I can remember, we were always doing math. Not math problems written down on paper, but we were always solving problems, sharing blocks and colored erasers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every day we would gather on the rug and sing and skip. All the singing and skipping still helps me today to keep a good rhythm in swimming. Thank you Camille for a good start. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember the first time we met Joel and Amber, Kristina’s pets, We loved those bunnies, so soft and quiet. They probably didn't like us we were always noisy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kristina always said 6 times 6 is 36, so we ran down to the park singing that and, "Eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh uh." That was the year we started cross country. Back then Keefe, Thomas, and I were the fastest in our class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every year we work together in small groups on projects I am pretty sure I have worked with everyone in my grade multiple times. What I learned from this is how to work together. I think this will help me in middle school because you do a lot of group projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something we have done every year is raise salmon. One year Julian and I helped to test the water and take care of the salmon. We stayed in from the park every day to do the salmon check. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the fun things I did was ultimate Frisbee with Andy and Quinn Slotnick. I liked Frisbee because I got to learn a new sport and be with my friends at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m sad to leave Lake and Park because I’ve made some good friendships and I won’t get to see these friends everyday. But I’m also happy because I get to meet new people and make new friends. </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In first grade is when Ted and I first became friends. We became friends because Kristina my first grade teacher had us sit next to each other. Big mistake! We talked so much she had to move us. That was in first grade but in first grade Quynh also came. Quynh and Kristina made this system during literacy called “must do, should do, and can do”. This is how we learned to set priorities. I remember thinking in first grade that school was so hard. I am glad I didn't know what was ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Now I'm going to mention some of the best moments at Lake and Park. Once in kindergarten when we were going to have quiet time which is like free play with toys but you don’t talk, Camille went to play quiet music but she accidentally put on YMCA! We all burst out laughing. It took a while after that to get us quiet. There was also a time in second grade when we went to the cathedral in downtown Seattle. I was amazed by all of the beautiful glass and art work and I really want to go there again. This year I really liked the writing unit when we did the book bazaar. I liked it because we all got to make our own books to sell to each other.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">(Once a week for six weeks in March and April I was gifted the opportunity to visit the classrooms at Lake and Park to explore writing together, taking time with each of the senses, with a slant toward poetry. Special thanks to Billie Swift and Eileen Hynes for making this possible. As a teaching artist, I visit up to 10 schools in a school-year and was stunned by the warmth, sophistication and aliveness of the atmosphere at L & P. I was so honored to visit and learn from so many bright students and teachers. )</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">It’s my last day, and the kids are busy with scissors and ribbon, making their own books for the book bazaar. They are gathering writing they’ve completed over the last few weeks, including some of the poems we’ve grown together. Desks are rainbow seas of construction paper, glitter and ink. Hands sticky with glue and giddiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">At Lake and Park, writing is dreaming and walking and smelling and seeing. Writing is wandering and slowing down and being. Eileen shuttles me between rooms and worlds. Invisible threads zigzag from class to class, from sky to ground. This has a lot to do with the blended grade classrooms, and the ecosystem of themes and disciplines merged together. The whole atmosphere feels like a living poem, leaves your heart wild open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Early in the residency we hold in our hands Seattle photographer Julie Graber’s photographs. Before we begin to absorb these sensual, emotional photographs, we close our eyes and imagine “what we can’t see with our two regular eyes.” Noe writes, “My third eye can see my cat’s dreams/I see the wind blowing/She is in the jungle/She is a tiger/Her beautiful black stripes/ glisten/glisten in the sunlight/For a second/I almost believe it is real.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">In the North Room, Quynh keeps us positive, focused and grounded. The candle flame in Nadia’s poem flickers in my own mind, evoking candle smoke. Finnian’s ode to kittens explodes, filling our minds with fuzzy-furry and fierce images. Tennyson’s words on the wall dance above our heads “the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.”</span></div>
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Lake and Park - Eileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13483339504073402347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-87275019543782025532018-03-18T12:41:00.000-07:002018-03-18T12:41:40.981-07:00Thinking Like an Engineer by Quynh Cao<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Like many great beginnings, engineering starts with a
question. SpaceX asked How can we make interplanetary travel more affordable? After the Falcon Heavy launch earlier this
month, children wondered, how did they do that? These were a few of my
wanderings as I prepared activities to support our study of space and space
exploration. How do we encourage children to think like engineers? What can that look like at Lake and Park? What
does it sound like? What is the role of the educator? What is the role of the student?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Engineering at Lake and Park looks like a bustling workshop
where teachers make it a priority to reuse everyday materials in non-conventional
ways. A balloon, straw, string, and tape
illustrate jet propulsion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Questions are used as a guide to help children approach and
discover a topic rather than have an idea defined for them. Instead of
explaining what jet propulsion is, we challenge the students with a question. How can I get my balloon to travel farther?
Open ended questions allow for children to discover more possibilities.</div>
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Wire, foam board, and brads can be fashioned into a simple lever machine to simulate the Canadarm found on the International Space Station. Paper cups and strings taped in a particular way become a grappler. Children made “lunar rovers” using a thread spool, thumb tack, rubber band and a pencil to demonstrate how stored elastic energy is converted into kinetic energy. Cardstock, tape, and glue are all that are needed to make a rocket.<br />
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Children worked collaboratively in small groups and across the grades. North Room engineers shared their knowledge with younger children from the Beginning and Very Beginning rooms. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The ability to “make something from nothing” is a skill that can be developed at any age. </div>
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Access to materials, a place to work, and time to create solutions of her or his own design are necessary. There are many ways to structure an engineering challenge, but I think the most effective method (at this age) is by trial and error. Many children find the trial and error method most satisfying, and for the above-mentioned projects I did not give instructions in the assembly process but provided a model for children to examine. In figuring it out for themselves, children feel empowered by their own abilities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I liked it because I messed up so much. I learned that messing up can help you a lot.” -Ardin<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lake and Park - Eileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13483339504073402347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-58170361321159103712017-12-14T14:01:00.000-08:002017-12-14T14:01:04.864-08:00How is Your Child's Entertainment Like a Toaster? By Quinn Slotnick<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two notes to readers before we get into the meat of things here. I began writing this post about the joy and importance of woodworking at The Lake and Park School. As I started thinking about our experience with carpentry at school and researching the topic as a whole, I realized the importance of woodworking goes deeper than I gave it credit and it shares its importance with many other hands-on activities. These experiential activities also appear to be at least a partial counter to the detriments of a globalized and technologically advanced American society replete with mass-produced childhood entertainment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caroline Pratt began her work in education at a very young age in the early 1900’s. Her school, The City and Country School, the name of which you may notice shares its structure with our own, and for good reason, still stands today as an important (and expensive) New York private school for children in nursery school to fifth grade. I can’t speak so much to the school as it stands today although I am sure it is lovely, but Pratt’s philosophy is timeless and important to all of the teachers at Lake and Park.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Pratt’s “play school”, children learned how the world around them functioned. They watched supplies arrive in large crates at the city docks, saw large machines load coal into containers to be burned for fuel, and they talked to firemen, postmen, and other people who made their city run. After observing, questioning and talking with each other, they played, worked and wrote or dictated poems and stories to their teachers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In play they pretended to be machines, family members, and the people they saw working in their city. In the blocks they built the New York piers. They worked important jobs in their classes that dictated their curriculum. Actual jobs selling school supplies to other classes within the school led to investigations on erasers and where rubber comes from or trade routes in ancient times. Their work with the printing press led to poems about machines. Their imaginative ideas about the goings on in their larger physical space engaged them and inspired imaginative school work. Watching the loading of coal, a child came up with this poem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an imaginative version of a real life event. It pertains exactly to what a child knows - eating, coal, vehicles, and still it holds the imaginative beauty in a child’s thought process. Pratt wrote that without the real life experience, this is not possible. A child’s imagination is linked to a true understanding of the world around them. Thus, a child with incorrect facts or one lacking in true experiences is missing something crucial. If their knowledge is not complete, then their imagination, as Pratt sees it, is not truly imaginative; rather, they may be humorous for the enjoyment of adults or may simply be confused. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The literary child may be facile with his borrowed ideas and phrases, but they are borrowed, hollow, without the vitality of personal emotional experience. A child who has shared an early morning sunrise with the birds has had an emotional experience which the child who has merely read about birds and sunrise can never equal.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She believes a child needs real world experience in order to gain an imagination that also reflects her/his understanding of the world. A child without first hand experience and with confusing fairytale ideas in its place, is even more disadvantaged. Such a child’s ideas are muddled and their thoughts are not their own. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her hardlined philosophy on this matter is especially important in our current time, but too black-and-white and impossible to carry out. It is difficult to translate to the situation current children find themselves in for two reasons. The first is that the gears that turn our everyday functions are hidden far beneath the surface and the second is the prevalence of widespread, mass-produced, entertainment for children. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a child I could look at the world through </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lion King</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tinted glasses. I would understand the world around me because I could relate my experiences to those of Simba, Nala or Timon. This helped me to explain things. Without experiences where I was forced to ask myself or others questions to understand them the world would have been very confusing however. I was able to see that things happened for many reasons and I could explain the world based on personal experience as well as disney movies. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caroline Pratt was too hard-lined in her philosophy. I believe fairy tales, Saturday morning cartoons, and widely enjoyed games are not a detriment to children if they are taken in moderation as well as in combination with experiential activities that push a child to think for him or herself. An anti-fairytale ideology comes from the seed of something important and how we decide to act on that kernel of truth now is essential to a child’s development. They must be able to understand their world, their minds, and also to imagine something beautiful beyond the present time and beyond their physical space.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I, Pencil, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read</span></div>
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"What is a botanist?" Asked students and teachers in early September as we embarked on a long study of botany. Learning that botany is the study of plants, children and teachers considered how one could best study plants. </div>
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"<i>By going outside and looking at the leaves!"</i></div>
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Curious about the variety of plant species living in our neighborhood, students throughout the school ventured through the neighborhood collecting leaves, seeds and sticks. We sorted our collections at school, pressed leaves and paged through colorful guidebooks to identify as many leaves as possible. Looking at a collection of colorful leaves and seed pods upon a white piece of paper made us realize how expansive plant life is. </div>
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<i>"I realized that when you look around and pay attention you'll find more interesting leaves." -Caroline</i></div>
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<i>"I wonder how many different types of plants there even are." -Finn T. </i></div>
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<i>"I wonder how many flowers are in the world?"-Tillie</i></div>
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Each day, we returned from our walks with leaves and flowers we hadn't noticed before. The potential for discovery felt endless. So did the process of identification, which often required consulting several different books to find a leaf's identity. Being so patient with the process made us feel like scientists doing real research. </div>
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As we familiarized ourselves with plant families, we learned to characterize leaves by their shape, margins and size. We learned the difference between flowering and non-flowering plants as well as monocots and dicots. We learned about gymnosperms and angiosperms; seeds and spores. We counted the number of deciduous trees and coniferous trees on our walk to the park. How had we climbed, sat beneath and walked through these trees day after day without knowing their identities? We slowly grew to see the trees differently; as individuals. With this shift in our perspective, we also gained confidence and expertise in identifying a variety of species. With a closer examination of our collections, a flood of questions arose:</div>
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"How did plants evolve for there to be such variety?" Wondered the North Room students. Awed by the monstrous size of horsetails and ferns, the students competed to find the largest leaf and traced the evolution of plants back to the carboniferous period. As we looked closely at the structure of leaves with magnifying glasses, we noted their small veins and considered their purpose. A study of the process of photosynthesis followed, which was read about and acted out throughout the school. </div>
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Curious about the actual work of botanists and what greater purpose their work serves, we visited the the herbarium at the University of Washington and visited with the botanist there. We wondered, "Why would someone want to be a botanist?" "Why is it important to study plants?" At the herbarium, we opened cabinets full of folders containing 23,000 different species of plants from around the world. We learned about the medicinal qualities of certain plants and the peculiarities of others. The botanist there explained how she carefully pressed the specimens to preserve them, which inspired the upstairs children to create their own collections of plants. We worked for weeks to collect, identify and preserve leaves of various types. </div>
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Though our school-wide study of botany will come to end, our newfound appreciation for the complexities of plant life will remain with us throughout the school year and throughout our lives. We'll likely never walk through a forest again without a curiosity for the trees. We'll never look at a flower or leaf quite the same way. We've all developed an eye for the subtleties of nature. As Rowan put so nicely, the study of plants is never over: </div>
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Here we are halfway through our fifth season of Cross Country at The Lake and Park School, and Dragonflies Cross Country has never been stronger! Well over half of our student population is participating in Cross Country this year, and the whole school spends time running almost everyday leading up to the Seattle Children's Marathon on November 25th. Our athletes are getting stronger everyday, and all of the practicing we do not only benefits them physically, but also contributes to their mental fortitude.</div>
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The camaraderie and friendship of teammates has been inspiring! Due to the individual nature of cross country as we experience it, the athletes are left to compete with only themselves as they work to run relaxed and smoothly, and as a result, more quickly.</div>
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Perhaps most inspiring of all has been our community's rallying around athletes during the meets. We have seen our participants and their families cheering on others, encouraging runners from our school as well as children from other schools who are participating. It is truly a wonderful thing to experience that kind of sportsmanship in our athletic community! A sincere thank you to all the families who are making this such a special season. </div>
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As we look toward our final two meets, we encourage all to keep a positive outlook and most importantly, have fun! Go Dragonflies!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kindness is helping.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consideration is the color blue.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consideration is a kind and understanding virtue. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The color blue is like sky on ice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consideration is the squeak of mice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joyfulness is the color yellow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Caroline</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purple is kindness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purple is like grapes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green like cabbage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green like a leaf.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green like moss.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green is energetic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">White is respect.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the ocean and sky.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue is patience.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yellow is kind and happy.</span></div>
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Lake and Park - Eileenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13483339504073402347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628340099083436318.post-80822575814790657752017-06-13T09:44:00.000-07:002017-06-13T11:13:21.264-07:00Commencement 2017 By Commencement Speaker, Merna Hecht<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Beginning students welcome the graduates with a ribbon arch.</td></tr>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Thank you to Merna Hecht for her many years of storytelling and support at Lake and Park. This year it was an honor to listen to Merna share her remarks with our community during the graduation celebration on June 9, 2017. </span></em></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Merna, seated in the sanctuary.</td></tr>
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<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am so deeply honored that Camille invited me to
speak at the June 9, 2017 graduation. She is truly a visionary thinker and
educator. I could have easily gone on at length about this extraordinary woman and
the privilege of witnessing how her initial dream of establishing a unique learning
community became today’s flourishing Lake and Park School. I truly think that
the School’s motto should state,”</span></em><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">
If we can imagine it, we can create it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
brings me to thoughts about creativity and what it means to educate our
children to become the kind of citizens who are motivated to create a more
humane and just world. In part, a tool they must have is the ability to imagine
possibilities. And this comes only with the kind of schooling that nurtures children’s
abilities to play, because in play young children begin to imagine
possibilities. To create from engagement in play without the imposition of
expectations or evaluation in an environment that understands play as an aspect
essential to learning for all children is a necessity too often overlooked. So
I want to add yet another shout out to Camille and all of the Lake and Park teachers
for understanding that play exalts possibilities and begins to equip children
to imagine a better world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Watching the slide show from the 2016-17
Lake and Park School year confirmed just how real, relevant and rewarding
learning can be. It was thrilling to see how
natural science learning was embedded in and extended from a school-wide
field trip connected to the study of mushrooms. And, I was heartened by hearing
young children sing the songs of the civil rights movement knowing that they
learned about non-violent movements for social justice by marching and picketing
with signs they made themselves! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I left the graduation ceremony uplifted
and filled with hope and gratitude. Hope because I know that the Lake and Park
students are supported to the fullest in developing respectful compassion for
others who are different from them. I know they are on their way to becoming
creative and critical thinkers who will want to find peaceful solutions toward
caretaking the earth and all who live on it. And gratitude because of the rich
and layered gifts of learning that build community and engage the whole child
that are provided by the Lake and Park teachers and staff and embraced by a
wonderful group of parents, families and supportive community members and
friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><em><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"First a shout out to the four graduates
of Lake and Park School…it’s your day! It is an honor that Camille has asked me
to speak for this special occasion and it is an honor to claim a long
affiliation and affection for the Lake and Park School. I’ve had the distinct
privilege of knowing Camille for many years, long before Lake Park was first a
vision and then a wonderful thriving reality. That in itself is a story. And, speaking
of stories, I think that each Lake and Park group to whom I’ve told stories
knows that they are the best listeners I have encountered. Yes? </span></em></span><em><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And here’s another story. Some
seventy plus years ago and some seven thousand plus miles from Seattle, in New Zealand, there
lived an amazing woman named Sylvia Ashton Warner, though for my story I will simply
call her Sylvia. She was both an artist and a teacher who delved deeply into
the art of teaching and she was a woman before her times, pushing through with ideas
about schooling that some thought shocking. Before our use of the word organic
as in kale, or milk, or eggs, or chicken, Sylvia brought this word to pertain
to education. She said, in education an organic approach means that we bring
light and nourishment to what is strongest in each child. I’m sure you understand I mention Sylvia and
her thinking about what organic really means—to bring light and nourishment to
what is strongest in each child because of the influence she has had on
Camille’s thinking and the other amazing, world traveling, award winning
teachers at Lake and Park.</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sylvia
also insisted that learning must be real, relevant and rewarding—three things
that are clearly a cornerstone of the Lake and Park School. Real, relevant and
rewarding. These three “r’s”are very different from the “old school” three r’s
of “reading, writing and arithmetic and far more essential to learning. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I
want to say a few words about rewards by going back to storytelling—think about
a main character in a story you love who must go forth to overcome challenges
and obstacles. In almost every story like this, when the young hero or heroine
sets forth on a challenging quest small gifts are given along the way before
the end goal is reached. These small treasures often have magical powers to
help the story’s main character succeed. On each difficult journey these little
rewards keep the young person going forward and support him or her on their quest. This story pattern reflects a process similar to how the best of learning takes
place. In these teaching stories the goal really isn’t about gaining bags of
gold, or the right to inherit the kingdom, or, in terms of schooling, for the A+,
or the high test score, but, it is rather to grow surer of oneself, wiser, more
knowledgeable and confident in one’s strength and finest abilities. Each step
and each small reward for keeping on becomes an integral part of a journey toward
wholeness which is one reason why this pattern within stories is repeated and
used as a time-honored teaching tool in cultures worldwide in schools like Lake
and Park that remain connected to the deep roots of holistic learning with the
many meaningful and small rewards inherent in learning along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">If
you’ve visited the school of late and viewed the community effort from the
youngest to the oldest student, you can see the way that imaginative possibilities
and a fully integrated curriculum and community endeavor are brought to life. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When I was here telling Silk Road stories just
a few weeks ago I told a tale of a magic garden that came into being for
several main reasons. One was the generosity of two old friends who had mutual
respect for each other and for the land they shared. When gold was discovered
on the land they had their first argument—each wanting the other to keep the
treasure. And so, they went to the wise man. There they heard a young boy talk
of his dream of using the gold, not for profit or gain, but to plant a lavish
garden that all could enjoy—young and old, animals and birds, where beauty and
nourishment would flourish. How many of you remember what happened when the
young boy went to the great Silk Road marketplace to buy seeds for the garden
he dreamed of using the gold with which he had been entrusted? Anyone? Yes, he
saw birds in captivity and instead of buying seeds he bought the birds in order
to free them. In time out of gratitude for his compassion and the many risks he
took to free them, the birds carried exotic seeds from afar to the garden and
using wing and beak and claws planted the garden themselves. So the garden was
a result not only of generosity and respect, but of compassion and risk taking. </span></span></i><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This story is real and relevant and rewarding for our times and it holds the
timeless values on which education should be founded, because if we do not
instill compassion for others, love for and experience of the natural world, and
awareness and respect for different cultures, different viewpoints and ways of
life our relevance, our sense of reality will become clouded, and the rewards
of living in the embrace of vibrant communities of goodwill might be at risk. Before
I close, I want to thank all who are part of the Lake and Park School community
for living and teaching these values.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> To today’s four graduates celebrating their
passage on to other schools I know you will keep the lively experience and the
relevance of what your learning community at The Lake and Park School has
instilled in you; and I know you will keep the joy of learning, the richness of
imagining other times and lives, and the ability to imagine what you will
become and to believe in yourself and then walk forward bearing the gifts you have to
give."</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">~Merna Hecht, June 9, 2017</span></i></span></div>
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On Tuesday, May 2nd our World Educator of 2016-2017, Eileen Hynes, joined us at Hamilton International Middle School to accept her award. Eileen gave a heartfelt speech that described the impact that learning about different peoples and perspectives can have on young students; genuinely exploring difference changes the way that young people engage with the world. Eileen said: “Today’s youth need more than ever to view themselves in partnership with youth everywhere, to listen to diverse ideas, and to collaborate to solve problems that are shared around the world.”</div>
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The World Affairs Council strongly believes in educating for global competency in order to build a more peaceful, more connected world. Our Global Classroom program promotes this goal by working with teachers and students across the state, and providing opportunities for international engagement and dialogue. In her speech on Tuesday night, Eileen Hynes expressed this mission with the clarity and conviction of someone who has been teaching in classrooms for more than 30 years and fully understands the significance of educating for a better future. Many in the audience requested copies of her speech; it is an honor for us to share World Educator Eileen Hynes’ full speech below.</div>
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As we reflect this evening on the power of travel to change lives, I would like to begin with a blessing, On Meeting a Stranger by the Irish poet, John O’Donohue, On Meeting a Stranger: With respect and reverence, that the unknown between us might flower into discovery, and lead us beyond the familiar field, blind with the weed of weariness, and the old walls, of habit.</div>
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Thank you, Jackie and the World Affairs Council, Ryan and Maggie and the Global Classroom. I am honored to accept the World Educator award this year. I also want to thank Camille Hayward and all the teachers at Lake and Park. It is a privilege to work with teachers who share and inspire creativity, intellectual curiosity and honesty in the work we do with children and parents every day.</div>
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Camille often says, “It is not the extraordinary, but the ordinary”. Children need time and space, to discover for themselves, which is how we truly learn. It is how children learn the ways the world works, and how they move from the shelter of their families into the world, with a strong sense of self that permits them to move forward with eyes and heart wide open. And filled with curiosity and compassion, and an understanding of themselves as part of a much larger world. Curiosity encourages a mindset that questions the interconnectedness of all things, not if they are connected but how things are connected. We don’t need to doubt that there are connections to be found. Growing up with an awareness of multiple perspectives, children develop the habit of looking for another’s point of view. They expect their own view to be challenged, and develop flexibility in thinking and an appreciation for diversity of thought when working with others to solve problems.</div>
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My own journey down this path began with a class I took at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.</div>
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The opportunity came about because of a new professional development initiative at the school where I was working at the time. I was a young teacher with no credentials, but that didn’t stop the board of directors and the head of the school from trusting me and the rest of the faculty, and showing the faith they had in us, by providing unrestricted funds for teachers to craft our own professional development plan. I chose to take a class at the university. This was not a class in the education department. It was not a class that would teach me how to teach reading better or how to manage a group of children – The class was called State-Society Relations in Third World Countries, and it was taught by Rasat Kasaba. This was almost 30 years ago. Many of you know Professor Kasaba, as a global thinker and a gifted educator. He went on to become the Director of the Jackson School, where he is today. He profoundly altered how I would focus my energy as a teacher of young children. Rasat’s class opened the world to me in a new way. It required me to seek an understanding of the interconnectedness of life on this planet. In class that spring, Rasat guided our exploration of different regions of the world, identifying the influence of world powers on indigenous cultures and the potential globalization had to affect the world. This was six years before the World Trade Organization even existed. Professor Kasaba encouraged us to view the complexities of each region of the world, and every situation, from the point of view of the people living there first, and then to understand the effect of the actions world powers were imposing in these places. It woke me up.</div>
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I understood from this point on that social studies was the lens I wanted to use to teach young children about the world. Now, my view of social studies is broad, encompassing the interconnected systems we use to make sense of things. It includes literature, the arts, and the sciences. I want students to look for patterns, make connections and take note of similarities and uniqueness. By developing attitudes and skills and building knowledge about the world, young children can learn about wonderfully complex topics – evolution, climate change, physics – all the while developing habits of openness, curiosity and compassion.</div>
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I want to return to the reason I took the class, this was one of my first professional development opportunities, and I was filled with gratitude, that I was given this chance to return to the classroom as a student. I was fortunate that I selected a class with one of the finest teachers in the country, and when I entered his classroom he took me on a journey to distant places and asked me to consider my impact, as a privileged citizen of the US. Since then I have never doubted the value of life-long learning, ongoing professional development, and the value of travel, both real and virtual. The World Affairs Council Global Classroom continues to play a significant role in providing teachers with accessible professional development, that invites us to virtually travel around the globe in three hour chunks of time, to Egypt during the Arab Spring, or to Kenya when we read City of Thorns together in a Global Classroom book club. The World Affairs Council also acts as a bridge, it has connected me and many other teachers over the years, to opportunities for real travel. Through association with the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia I traveled to China, and with the Turkish Cultural Foundation, I traveled to Turkey. I was sharing the Turkish Art of Ebru just today with students as we marbled paper as part of our current study of the Silk Road.</div>
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Never underestimate the value of professional development for teachers. And when you have an opportunity to support it, please do. I would like to thank Katherine Cheng and Expedia for their support of educators and students, here supporting the essay contest, and by helping maintain the National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellows program. Global travel for teachers inspires us to bring the world into our classrooms. Today’s youth need more than ever to view themselves in partnership with youth everywhere, to listen to diverse ideas, and to collaborate to solve problems that are shared around the world.</div>
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Curiosity, not arrogance, compassion, not fear, and cooperation, not competitiveness are the attitudes to cultivate in educating the globally competent child. Thank you.<br />
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Read more about the <a href="https://www.world-affairs.org/programs/global-classroom/world-educator-award/eileen-hynes/" target="_blank">World Educator Award here.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The entire school launched our study on civil rights in celebration of Martin Luther King Day in early January. After studying the timeline of his life and the powerful impact he made in extinguishing racial segregation in our country, the children painted enormous signs and took to the streets of Mt. Baker neighborhood to march in support of his efforts. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"We help other people by marching and we continue to march today. It was kind of scary in my experience...but it's really cool that you're marching for a good cause. With all the adrenaline rushing throughout, it's really fun. Some of the signs really show people's feelings. It's really powerful, even though I may not understand all the signs." -Griffin</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we were learning of Martin Luther King's role in the attempt to end segregation, we listened closely to his most famous speeches and considered the power of language to inspire resistance and action against racial injustice. Children throughout the school watched his famous “I Have a Dream” and “Mountaintop” speeches. One afternoon, the upstairs classrooms walked to nearby Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park to make crayon rubbings of his quotes engraved into stone walls. We returned to school with these pieces of art which filled our stairwell. Students wrote their own dreams for the future of social justice and racial equality across the globe and filled the classrooms with these thoughts. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our consideration of the power of words to evoke action led older students to listen to the speeches of President Kennedy, Johnson and Obama. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">The poetry of Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou inspired powerfully expressive paintings on the easels. </span></span></div>
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Thematic Studies is our way of integrating science, art and
social studies into our students’ day in a seamless way. It helps students make
connections and brings deep meaning to their learning. When offering subjects that are thematically integrated, we provide powerful opportunities for students to practice important skills that they
are already working on. In this way they gain fluency. Once a connection is made, a
student is often motivated to learn more about a subject. The child then will eagerly work with others
to read new information. Writing skills are practiced as they create a
poster or a script. Speaking skills are gained in order to practice for a presentation. Understanding of any topic will deepen
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Throughout the school
year thematic studies will take various forms.
As this year begins, classes have been working within their classrooms
on projects that serve as a bridge by which students transition from summer to
the school year. The Beginning Group is
being welcomed to Lake and Park through Camille’s structuring of their day to
introduce school routines and materials, including exploration of our favorite
neighborhood outdoor spaces. The Primary Class began the year collecting seeds, harvesting our community garden and
wondering about the markets in the city that sell produce. The Upper Primary Group has created a
thematic study around the main character in the class read aloud book, <i>Charlotte’s Web</i> by E.B. White, reading
additional non-fiction and folktales about spiders, and observing spiders and
webs in the field. The Intermediate Class revisited engineering challenges as
they set norms for collaborative learning this fall, along with a dramatic
investigation of favorite fairytales with a twist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At regular times throughout the year the whole school will
choose to explore a common theme – sometimes for just a week and other times
for a longer period. These learning opportunities may be based on a
particular exhibit at a museum or a theater performance. Whatever the theme is, our approach
fundamentally remains the same – child-centered, hands-on, and intellectually
stimulating. Providing opportunities for children to question, explore, investigate, analyze,
synthesize, collaborate and explain one's thinking make up the constant behind each theme that we offer in any given year at Lake and Park School.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ongoing topics of study include our school garden at Colman
P-patch and the raising of Coho salmon.
Both of these topics provide endless wonder and room for exploration and
connections in all directions. Last year
we learned about the restoration project on the Elwha River and the removal of
the Elwha dam. The <a href="http://www.nps.gov/olym/parknews/three-chinook-spotted-above-glines-canyon.htm">first fish in over one hundred years</a> have reached the upper parts of the river this summer. Scientists and environmentalists planned and
prepared for the project for years, gathering native seeds and propagating
plants to restore the habitat. This year
we plan to learn more about these native plants and work on a restoration
project nearby at Colman Park. In doing so, we will be given an opportunity to think
about the connection between our work and the work done at the Elwha. We will use all of our senses as we learn
about the interconnectedness of the living things on earth. <u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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