Giving voice to our best guess
Math work at Miquon often works across several topics, connecting mathematical reasoning skills with students’ number sense and experience of relative distances. READ MORE »
Classroom Blogs
Classroom Blogs
A Roly-poly and Lost Puppies: A Look at Emergent Curriculum
“Follow the child’s interests in people, objects, places, and activities, and talk with them. It’s social interaction that creates a link between the child and an ongoing activity. Help them learn how to articulate themselves and participate in the world.” Anne Haas Dyson Our nursery learners make a variety of choices during morning inside-outside play. Over the past few weeks, we’ve observed a flurry of planning and collaboration among the children while they performed a Wedding Ballet, constructed a house for puppies on the loose, made a temporary habitat for caterpillars beneath the walnut tree, and designed Magna-tile palaces for cats. Their emerging interests … READ MORE »
Guided Exploration in Science
Giving students opportunities to mess around is a key component of science education at Miquon. In this case, “messing around” means time devoted to . . . READ MORE »
Miquon Receives Protecting Our Water Award
The Schuylkill Action Network presented a Protecting Our Water Award to fifth and sixth grade students at The Miquon School for their work protecting the river and drinking water in the Schuylkill River Valley. READ MORE »
Kids Wonder ‘If I Ran the Circus’ at Miquon Conference week
Twice a year, Miquon conference week offers children something a little different: it’s a chance to delve deeply into a particular study, with the entire week’s activities focused on one topic. READ MORE »
Dancing Dots and Tapping Beats: “I Notice a Pattern!”
Our emergent curriculum leads us far and wide, and the children’s exploration thus far invites us to look at repetition and design of patterns that interconnect within nature, math, sound, movement, and art. READ MORE »
“Pretend we were just born”
A close look inside our Nursery classroom reveals children’s stories unfolding, characters evolving and plots twisting. READ MORE »
PE: What does it mean to be fit?
Before holiday break 3rd – 6th graders explored health and skill related components of fitness through participating in a variety of activities to exemplify each (and sometimes multiple components). What does it mean to be physically fit? Is skilled the same as fit? Is fit the same as skilled? Is someone who is fit more at an advantage than someone who is really skilled? Is someone who is really skilled more at an advantage as someone who is fit? What components directly relate to my health and why? How do I improve my fitness? Health Related vs Skill Related … READ MORE »
Finding Empathy Through Art and Story
During morning choice time, many of our learners are taking agency in talking about what they are creating and their intention to give it to someone as a kind gesture. READ MORE »
Over in the Forest . . .
From the box turtle to the possum, the song selected based on the group’s study of all the woodland animals that live at Miquon. READ MORE »
