Stephanie’s final photos. Happy Summer!

Hi everyone.  Here are some final photos from the year.  We had a great time at Field Day and the End of Year Pizza lunch.  Thanks to everyone for a great year.  Have a fun and relaxing summer! Stephanie

Friday Casita Newsletter – May 31st 2013

Friday Casita Newsletter May 31st 2013 “To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.” “The child can develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experiences ‘work’.” “To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed [...]

Characteristics that indicate that a child in a Casita community is ready to begin the transition to Children’s House

Child is at least 2.10 years of age Child stops speaking in third person and starts using the pronoun “I” Has enough verbal skills to express basic needs Has had experiences separating from parents; hopefully the separation has reached the point of not being problematic Has enough gross movement coordination to manage moving around furniture [...]

Friday Casita Newsletter-May 24th 2013

Friday Casita Newsletter May 24th 2013 Dear Parents: I hope you are all enjoying the warm weather and I am looking forward to our end of the school year Splash party! We will have a gazebo with seating place for the adults so please make sure you have replied to the evite and have signed [...]

Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD – Great Article

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/suffer-the-children/201203/why-french-kids-dont-have-adhd

Friday Casita Newsletter – May 17th 2013

Friday Casita Newsletter May 17th 2013 Dear Parents: What a week! I woke up Monday morning feeling a little strange and came to school to work.  I was feeling extremely exhausted and made an appointment at the doctor’s office.  I was at school for only an hour on Monday and when I went to the [...]

Upper Elementary News

Our graduation ceremony is on the school calendar for Thursday, May 30th at 6:30. We won’t be doing what we normally do for graduation, since the opera will take the place of our class play this year. So I thought we might try something I saw earlier this year at Austin Montessori, a poetry night. They had a table [...]