Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
This week's link is to Michigan Television's site for their documentary, "Where Do The Children Play?". This PBS documentary examines the importance of unstructured outdoor play and the growing concern that more and more children are growing up without it. …
Play is like a reservoir full of water. The deeper the reservoir, the more can be stored in it, and used during times of drought. Tina Bruce, professor, London Metropolitan University
Thank you to Claudia for finding this week's link to a NY Times article about homework cramming at Kindergarten. It mentions a study of New York and Los Angeles kindergartens spending 2-3 hours per day on math/reading instruction and testing.…
'These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice…
In the fifth grade, Waldorf students learn that the Olympics were an expression of that golden age when the ideal of the human form, in physical beauty and inner grace, comes together to create something heroic within the individual and…
"Nature ... is surprisingly beneficial for the brain," says a recent article at boston.com, the on-line site for The Boston Globe. The article focuses on the effects that urban life can have on the brain, and says that time spent…
It was recently brought to our attention that two articles about Waldorf Schools and Earth Day mentioned Water's Edge Waldorf School and our beautiful rain garden! Please use the following links to see what's been said:
"The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of…
As a special thank you to this year's auction advertisers and sponsors, this week's On The Web post includes links to their web sites or to more information on their businesses: Direct WaterJet, Inc. J Power Group Round Lake Beach Cultural…
