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We believe: every person is a thinker, creator, and contributor.
This belief is reflected so beautifully through the Miquon art room`s Community Weaving Loom.
All children from first through sixth grade are invited to add to a community weaving project, and each participant is given a voice at every stage of the design and creation stages. Everyone works together to come up with ideas, agree on a theme, and then create a sketch for the weavers to use as their map.
This makes for some wonderful moments—it’s a tangle of hands working together, with children sharing ideas and helping new weavers learn what to do. The finished weavings are masterpieces! See what they`ve been working on this year.
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Recently in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., students read books about his life and legacy and voted as a class about which book to recommend to the rest of the school as part of a special assembly.
Here in the 2nd grade they read two books: Boycott Blues, which narrates the bus boycott in Montgomery County, and My Brother Martin, a book that describes Dr. King`s childhood from his sister`s perspective.
Both books sparked meaningful conversation and when the class voted, they had a perfectly even tie! Some children preferred My Brother Martin because it told stories about Dr. King`s childhood and what led him to become an activist, and others preferred Boycott Blues because it focused on the greater movement of which Dr. King was part.
The children decided to recommend both books to the rest of the school.
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What is a picture book?
(The answer is more complicated than you might think!)
What does distinguished mean?
What makes a good picture book?
How do you reach an important decision as a group?
These are the guiding questions students at Miquon have been thinking about this year as they`ve learned about the Caledecott Award and examined past winning books through the eyes of Junior Caldecott Medal Committee Members.
Our librarian Sarah Stippich is wrapping up her year on the 2025 Randolph Caldecott committee, which will decide on the “most distinguished American picture book for children” published in 2024.
The award has been around since 1938 and the committee is made up of 15 librarians from around the country. All year Sarah has been reading HUNDREDS of picture books and meeting with the committee. She’s currently at the American Library Association’s winter conference so they can make their final deliberations, call the illustrators of the medal and honor book(s), and attend the big press conference where the 2025 award winners will be announced to the world.
Yay Sarah!
If you want to see to the press conference, you can! It`s this morning (Monday, January 27) at 10:00 a.m. EST. Visit the link in our bio to tune in.
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Music at Miquon combines building skill, rhythm, coordination, and cooperation with imagination and joy. Here our music teacher Diego leads some of our youngest students in song and play.
While they sing, are they also walking in lines to climb mountains? Flying away in hot air balloons? Pretending to catch mosquitos with pretend spider hands? All are possible and all are encouraged.
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Join the vibrant music scene here at Miquon! We are currently hiring for a half-year sabbatical replacement for our music teacher. This position is full-time and starting mid-January.
The music teacher at Miquon contributes to the daily life of the students and the school. They support student growth in their enjoyment, appreciation, and performance of music through a variety of planned music experiences which include singing, moving to music, playing instruments, and preparing the 6th graders for their choral performance at their graduation.
Read the link in our bio to find out more. Send your resume to resumes@miquon.org.
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Are the fish okay under the ice? Are they frozen? Should we feed them?
Our K/1 children had a lot of questions when they discovered that the koi pond had frozen over and the koi were acting differently in this cold weather.
These questions quickly served as inspiration for a research project. The children have been collecting wonderings; drawing observations; and finding answers to all of their questions. One term that they recently learned was “torpor”, which is the state of decreased activity that koi enter into to survive in winter.
On a final note, the “Most Dedicated Researcher” award goes to Maryanne, one of our Sugar Maple teachers, for dipping her phone into the pond to record a video of the koi below. We value your service to the cause, Maryanne!
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