Monthly Archives: February 2019

Can you hold a rainbow?

Danielle can.

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Embroidery

I turned an old table without a top into a sewing frame and the children are embroidering onto burlap. Granny helped them get started.

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More January

Smashing and balancing, helping cook in my new kitchen and touring Tristan’s new kitchen, and finding puddles!

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Pirates!

Arrrgh!

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Painting beads

To make necklaces and decorations.

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Links

Every parent needs support, especially for learning how to handle behavior. The Parent Support Center, right here in Portland, offers classes that can help every parent become more confident. I am one of the Parent Support Center’s parent-educators, and I offer classes here in the school for Understory families.
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Do you wonder about the importance of play? This article is a few years old, and everything in it is still true. Read it, and then go play! Taking Play Seriously, NY Times Magazine:
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I am deeply grateful to Brené Brown for her work on courage, vulnerability and empathy. If you don’t know her work, start with this short but powerful animation, and then go to her webpage.
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When I’m not teaching, I volunteer with Bark, the defenders and protectors of Mt. Hood. Free monthly hikes, monthly educational talks on forest issues, families welcome! Come learn how to defend the forest.
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