Thank you for your support of Klahanie School End of the Year Giving by donating towards our scholarships until the end of this month.
Klahanie School needs and thanks you for your donation supporting sustainable, annual scholarship giving to an intimate and diverse group of Montessori Antibias Antiracism Early Learners and families. Klahanie School is dedicated to the development and daily practice of Social Justice actions in learning, beginning at an early age to highlight awareness of Inclusion education and daily implementation to offer safe space for our most marginalized early learners and island community members. Diversity and Inclusion are paramount focuses in the Montessori Antibias Year Round pedagogy of Klahanie School. We are a proud supporter of Youth-young adult Interns mentoring programming and report successful numbers of Klahanie School interns who have moved further in Early Education undergraduate-to masters professions at 90% retention. Scholarship funding supports sustainable community connections that begin early. Thank you for the support and your donation today! Thank you!
Examples of our Social-Emotional, Antibias Antiracism (ABAR) Curriculum Commitments:
Routines of Self Care Explorations: This busy time of holiday season offers us time to look at daily and meaningful self care routines we each can establish to maintain calm and care to ourselves throughout the day. This unit will focus on peace makers resiliency methodologies that supported them during the hardest times.
Examples will become: Journaling & Journal Making, laughter, intention based storyboards, still life art and still life meditation pauses, interpretive-therapeutic dance/movement, water explorations, stringing beads, raking sand/molding items, sensory pressure & tapping and other meditative body movements, 1-1 talk and listen it through practices.
Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Koko the magnificent gorilla: This unit will extend into January and includes Specialist alumni Parent Katie Simpson who will share about her experiences working with gorillas, especially Coco! Please view Katie’s wonderful gorilla nest video on our Klahanie School YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0awvqAhpiBjCxpGRKqxbmA
- Water Catchment, underground exploration of Mycelium and underground water streams.
- Importance of trees, forests for preventatives.
- Erosion explorations, and soil amending will be a large focus.
- Importance of Eelgrasses and Estuaries
- Canadian Geese, ducks and seashore bird of Vashon-Maury
- Eagles: an eagle family lives across the street, offering us opportunities for connected explorations of these incredible island community members.
- Fry Bread: December we continue our focus on Indigenous exploration and seasonal traditions within many varying tribes who honor earth, family with Potlatch/ PowWows, We will enjoy eating Fry Bread before we end our month.
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