Kindergartners use critical thinking and imagination to explore the past.

This quarter in our theme time, the Clubhouse has been diving into the essential question “how do energy sources impact natural and human systems?” As part of our preliminary content injection, students spent time exploring how various forms of renewable energy are harnessed and converted into electricity. Originally, we began this content injection by having an educator-led lecture, followed by discussion and debrief with the students; however, as we continued on we decided

What do you get when you set aside adult agendas and curricula for a day: Lord of the Flies or Phineas and Ferb? We decided to find out by participating in Global School Play Day, an international effort to revitalize play for kids. Our students have free play every day; in fact, we use that instead of the term ‘recess’ to highlight its importance. We were not sure that we needed to dedicate an entire day to unguided play; however, we took this as an opportunity to do some