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November, 2011
The Kindle Farm School Newsletter
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Academic Excellence
The Sacred Seeds
The Magical Mystery Tour
The 3 R's at Kindle Farm
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Welcome to our first Newsletter!!  Thanks for taking an interest in The Kindle Farm School and our students. The readings below highlight our innovative programs and unique approaches in education.  We invite you to see what we are up to.

Academic Excellence

 Written By: Dana Gordon Macey

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Our academic programs are off to a great start at Kindle Farm this year!  Classroom teachers returned to school energized and full of great ideas.  Although our educational offerings extend far beyond what is offered in the classroom into the fields, the BMX track, the river with fishing pole in hand, the drumming studio, and everywhere we go throughout our day, we have done a great deal of work in the recent past to extend and develop our classroom practice; our current students are lucky to receive the fruits of these labors!

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The Sacred Seeds...

Written By: Drew Gradinger

 

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I walk into a classroom to witness a discussion between a teacher and 9 students. They are talking about Sacred Seeds and I have come in the middle of their conversation. I hear them defining the word sacred and making a plan to study seeds. I had to look up the word myself. "sa�cred: regarded with reverence."  As I read the definition I have a sense of pride to be working at a school discussing a project that connects science to the ideas of reverence for seeds and plant ecosystems.

  

The Magical Mystery Tour

Written By: Adam Altshuler

 

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Offering tours to parents, sending districts and potential students is a very common occurrence on the Onyon Farm Campus. Most people don't really know what to expect when we ask them if they want a tour of the Farm. I think initially people assume that they are going walk around a farm and see all the things that they have seen hundred times while on a farm.

 

The 3 R's at Kindle Farm

Written By: Terry Flood

 

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I have heard it said many times here at school, the three Rs of Kindle Farm: Relationship, Relationship, Relationship. As a staff member, it begins on the first school day that you are lucky enough to work here. "Take him for a walk up the hill, get to know each other." And that is exactly what we do. We get to know each other. 

 

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The Mission of The Kindle Farm School is to provide a physically and emotionally safe school environment using a combination of diverse activities, and strong supervison so students can discard old patterns and habits, and discover new ways to communicate, problem-solve, and learn more effectively. 
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