February 12, 2023 This is the first of three follow-up articles to Kids Do Well if They Can that Mary O’Connell and I will write in the coming weeks. A dear friend and colleague of LifeWays, Mary has a non-profit farm education program and LifeWays Representative site at Paradise Farm in West Bend, where she and […]
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August 27, 2021 Dear friends, Many states accept our LifeWays courses and trainings for earning continuing education hours. And now there are two more! Attention childcare providers in Vermont! LifeWays’ in-person and online courses are now approved for professional development (PD) hours in VT! Online courses must include certificates and continuing education hours to earn Vermont PD
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October 18, 2020 I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way. Things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keefe The kids were really eager to see our results from last week’s solar dyeing project. One of them asked immediately upon arrival, “What do the
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October 11, 2020 Nature always wears the color of the spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Every Friday, City of Fountains School in Kansas City, Missouri holds an Enrichment Day for grades-age children that attend the school or homeschool. This year I began teaching the upper grades class (which is currently 5-7th grade) and we are
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July 19, 2020 Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. ― Angela Duckworth Some pretty funny memes have circulated about this challenging year, 2020. Sometimes a good chuckle helps take our minds off the pressing issues of our time. Teachers are planning how to safely go back into the classroom, or how to muster up their
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May 24, 2020 In out of the way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. Recently we shared a posting from our dear colleague Acacia, a Lead Teacher in Residence at the Rose Rock School in Oklahoma.
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May 3, 2020 Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Years ago I was mentoring a lovely mother who was enrolled in one of our LifeWays training programs, not as a professional caregiver or teacher, but as a mother interested in learning more about child development. Brilliant, educated and a social
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April 26, 2020 Give thanks to the Mother Earth Give thanks to the Father Sun Give thanks to the children in the garden where The Mother and the Father are one Kalie Sanders, Kindergarten Teacher at the Playgarden in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, a LifeWays Representative site, offers a warm invitation into the daily experience of
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March 30,2020 Join in the great company of those who make barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Carry a vision of heaven in your hearts…Your success and happiness lies in you…The external conditions are the accidents of life. The great enduring realities are love and service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our
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February 9, 2020 As I write this there is still a debate in the media (social and otherwise) about the thing that was most important this past week — whether the Super Bowl halftime show was enthralling or appalling. By the time this blog post comes out, I am sure we will all have
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