Today we culminated our life cycle of the butterfly with a visit to Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory. We also finished our American Indian/Mohawk unit, and have begun a study of Canada, our neighbors to the north. Throughout the beginning of the year, we have talked about and sung about the four directions, which leads to [...]
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Day 9: October 20, 2009
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Day 8: October 16
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Today we did a walk to a sweat lodge nearby and talked about how American Indians used the sweat lodge as a cleansing spiritual experience with others in their families and communities. We also talked about the sacredness of spirit guides in the lives of Indians. We have been scanning magazines and books for [...]
Day 5: October 6, 2009
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Today we were invited to join the Ashfield Community Preschool on a field trip to Apex Orchards. We had a tractor ride through the orchards, picked a bag of apples, and each picked a pumpkin out of the fields. We finished our trip with a snack of hot donuts and cider. (If you have never [...]
Day 4: October 2, 2009
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Today we began our day with a study of the letter “E,” as in elephant and eagle. We also did some cutting and pasting in our Peace Traveler’s Alphabet Book. After snack we went on a quest for mushrooms and butterflies on a circular loop through the woods near Mt. View.
Today we learned more about [...]
Day 2: September 25, 2009
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Morning Circle
At the end of circle we began our discussion of the Mohawk people who lived (and some of whom continue to live here and the surrounding areas) in the Northeastern area of the United States. We learned the song “
The Earth is Our Mother
” with American Sign Language Signs.
The Earth is our Mother
The [...]
Week 33, Day 66: June 5, 2009
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Today we built a fairy house with the materials we had collected before the snow, back in October, November, and December. First we climbed to a special place high on the ridge, pretending we were climbing at high altitudes in the Andes. Each friend carried a bag of construction materials or collected objects for our [...]
Week 31, Day 62: May 22, 2009
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Today we prepared our songs for the “Peace Travelers Sing Along and Art Exhibit” We will be bringing our passports and taking families and friends on a tour of our world travels through our art projects and songs.
Base 10 continues with our grids and addition—moving down columns to count by 10s and across in counting [...]
Fundraiser Concert and Exibition freaturing
Posted in Administrative, Arts and Crafts, Peace Travelers, Songs on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Peace Travelers”
Photo Credit Kate O’Shea
from Mountain View Educational Collaborative
Sat May 3oth 6:00pm
“Donations Welcome”
at Elmer’s Store
396 Main Street
Ashfield, MA 01330
The concert will feature Multi Cultural Peace Oriented Songs, ASL, Poems, Puppets and Around-the-World Art Work
Peace Travelers is a twice-weekly home school program that highlights multicultural studies, geography, and social skill development through “travel” around the [...]
Week 23, Day 46: March 20, 2009
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We began our day with our first spirit walk of the spring. We walked silently and observed the spring’s onset with all of our senses. (Both Liam and Rosey were present as they were off from school, and friends welcomed old friends into the fold with both, old and new routines.
During snack we read Japan: [...]
Week 23, Day 45: March 17, 2009
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We began our day reading about Japan and its culture with the book, Counting your way through Japan by Jim Haskins. We have learned about Mt. Fuji, the fierce natural catastrophes in Japan, kimonos, the importance of fishing and rice farming, and the “No” plays used to teach morals or Japanese history.
We are working at [...]
