Children encouraged to consider the experience of ‘the other’
We are a community that strives to honor a host of ideas and opinions. READ MORE »
Miquon Blog
The First Six Weeks of School
We reinforced our commitment to creating initial experiences that foster independence, build community and give voice to individual students. READ MORE »
What Is a Recipe?
We recently asked our nursery learners to help us answer the following question: What is a recipe? Immediately someone exclaimed, “Steps!” Young children enjoy describing how something is achieved through a series of actions or steps. When our nursery learners engage in dramatic play involving mud kitchens, palaces, and camping, contribute to group meetings to share ideas about conflict resolution, collaborate to add to circle songs and movement games, and work together on things such as kneading dough to printmaking, they also begin to make meaning of dialogue based on recipes, step-by-step instructions, lists, and other examples of procedural text. Outside in the mud kitchen, … READ MORE »
Art at Miquon
I wanted to be sure that we all have a shared vocabulary. . . and the many works of Paul Klee serve as wonderful examples upon which to base our discussions and explorations of the Elements of Art—Line, Shape, Form, Color, Value, Texture, Space. READ MORE »
Wagon train, vocabulary, buddies, and more
Our wagon trains continue their westward journey to Oregon. Although luck is often a factor (as it really was) in our students’ progress, it also takes good decision-making , teamwork, and effort. READ MORE »
Mud pies, Salad soup and Pasta sandwiches
An emerging interest in the nursery classroom has been baking and concocting recipes in our outdoor Mud Kitchen. Using natural sensory ingredients such as, sand, soil, and water and transforming them into milk, eggs, salt to make into cupcakes and vegetable soup is one example of their dramatic play. READ MORE »
The Power of Habit
So much of the building of any community — a classroom group, a family, a project at work, a relationship with neighbors — is about creating routines, rituals, habits. READ MORE »
“I knew it was going to tip over”: Measurement, Geometry, and Probability in Play
According to Coyote’s Guide, when people share personal stories, they affirm the validity of their experience, gain confidence, find their own voice, and they also find the edge of their knowledge and become inspired to go back out and learn more. READ MORE »
I think our whole world is a food chain!
An interest in water and waterways emerged in the students’ play about a month ago when they were designing a moat. We looked at where this interest could take the learners and how it could connect to our natural surroundings at Miquon. READ MORE »
Science Show News
The Art and Science Show is on Tuesday, May 3rd from 5:30-7:00. Nursery through sixth grade students are invited to share a project or invention with the community in the Moore Building. This could be something that they worked on in school or at home. Each piece should be accompanied by a submission form that explains the work and will be displayed next to it. This form is available below for downloading. Though we have not focused on inventing as a curriculum topic this year, many students are planning to develop their own creations to share at the show. … READ MORE »
