This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Today at Clear Spring School we had our annual Harvest Party. It is a Clear Spring School tradition going back over 20 years and was started as a way to have a Halloween costume party without being over-run with witches, vampires and power ranger costumes, all unrelated to a more meaningful curriculum. The children take part in creating activities for each other, and the wood shop participated this year in the wild-west-pioneer theme by having a wagon making shop where the children could make their own wagons. It was fun, but unfortunately I didn't get any photos to share. I had to miss the first part of the Harvest party this year due to a telephone meeting with my editor from Taunton Press. My thanks to senior Travis Raines for helping the little ones in my absence.
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