Monthly Archives: February 2011
Community Clean Up Day – Saturday, April 9, 2011
Please join our annual neighborhood clean up on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Please dress with long pants and long sleeve shirts, and bring work gloves, garden rakes, and garden clean up tools if you have them. We’ll supply trash bags, … Continue reading
TCS Summer Program Announced
Join us this summer for Eyes Wide – Touchstone Community School’s 2011 Summer Enrichment Program Welcome to our exciting summer program, dedicated to providing girls and boys, ages 5-14, with a fun and learning experience, through play and enrichment. The … Continue reading
Empowering and Engaging Young Scientists – Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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Writing with young adolescents
To begin, I want you to think of everything you have to do while writing: finding the words for new thoughts spelling the words actually producing the written version of each word, forming each letter, or finding it on a … Continue reading
Morning Sketching
Some samples, none from my current class: Sherry comes into the classroom ready to make sense right away. Joey is a walking blur for the first half hour. Scott may well have had another argument with his brother in the … Continue reading
The Power of a Touchstone Education – February 3, 2011
Dear TCS Community, With the time for reading and reflection that the winter storms have allowed, I enjoyed a recent, thought-provoking editorial by the latest (and unexpected) supporter of a Touchstone education: David Brooks. Though I might argue with Brooks … Continue reading