Slowing down and letting the moment unfold, keeping the goal of being together as the focus, giving children your unbroken attention and modeling patience for the sometimes slow pace of evolving understanding are rare jewels in our electronics-saturated culture. READ MORE »
In thinking about the upcoming gathering of our new multicultural alliance, the following quotation came to me. It’s a Buddhist teaching, but it made me think of how a minority in our community is regularly aware of — and discomfited by — the currents that are unfelt by most of us. READ MORE »
Soft and enveloping…needs legs to function…often shaped like an “L”…touches the parts of a body that can be smelly…can be used as verbs…Those were some of the responses to the question that opened our staff meeting yesterday: “How is a chair like a sock?” READ MORE »
My perception has expanded. I see more deeply as I walk around Miquon at choice time. Children from Rossana and Rich’s group race back and forth across the creek with building materials, and lever and haul heavy rocks to their muddy homes in Monkeyland. READ MORE »
With our first snowfall in the valley early last week and the children eagerly preparing their pieces for the winter assembly, I find myself reflecting on yet another wonderful and joyous fall at Miquon. READ MORE »
For the three year old Bill Kirber, play was simple: He was at Miquon—collecting crayfish in the creek, building dams and running in the woods. Naturally, as with any Miquon child, these things were all a part of daily life. READ MORE »
Play is the serious work of these children. The story drips with every element of play that Huizinga described many years ago, and we imagine ourselves living in that kind of learning bliss. READ MORE »
