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On Monday, April 27th, Lighthouse classes will tour the schooner ALABAMA, a 'Tall Ship' hailing from Martha's Vineyard. Captain Morgan Douglas and crew will conduct our tours.
Jennifer Gross from A Safe Place will be conducting workshops for Lighthouse classes in the last week of April. Small School and Kinderclass students will learn about '3 Kinds of Touch,' while Primary-P5 students will focus on the practice of respect and tolerance.
In response to requests from parents, Jennifer has offered to present information to parents regarding the '3 Kinds of Touch' program that she will be presenting to the Kinder and Small School classes. In this way, the information and language introduced in the workshop can be utilized at home. Small School and Kinderclass parents are invited to meet with Jennifer on Tuesday, April 28 from 2-2:30 in Lizbet's classroom. We can provide childcare for your Small Schoolers during that time but please call Stacy at 228-0427 to let us know.
Lighthouse students will be participating in the Junior Artists annual show at the Nantucket Artists' Association's Seward Johnson Gallery on Washington Street. An opening celebration will take place on Thursday, April 30 from 3-6 p.m. you can also visit the show over the weekend.
RICHARD LEWIS, founder/director of The Touchstone Center for Children will be travelling to Nantucket from New York City to explore ways to value and incorporate imagination, play, and art experiences in the home and the classroom. We hope you will join us for the free parent workshop this Thursday night or educator workshop on Saturday. See below for more details.
Senora Patricia Harding is organizing our annual Cinco de Mayo celebration. Older students will be cooking tacos for an All School feast. You will find a 'menu' to fill out in your mailbox.
Lizbet Carroll Fuller
Director of Education and Co-Founder
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STORY TELLING FESTIVAL: FREE Parent Workshop
Through a Marble Brightly: Delights and Imaginings
Co-Hosted with the Nantucket Atheneum
Date: April 30, 7:00 PM at the Lighthouse School
"What is our play? What makes our playing, for our children and
ourselves, such a marvel of untold possibilities? How might play be
pivotal in how we learn - and how we imagine?" These are some of the
questions Richard Lewis will explore with us as he engages us in
playfully seeing the world, indeed the universe, in all its playful
abundance - and the ways such abundance can be at the source of a
child's desire to learn - and imaginatively deepen its learnings. Limit
30 attendees.
Call 508-228-0427 to register or for more information.
View a video by Lewis' Touchstone Center, "I Catch My Moment: Art and Writing by Children on the Life of Play" by clicking on this link.
STORY TELLING FESTIVAL: Educator's Workshop
Secret Wisdom, Magic Days: A Workshop on the Imagination in Learning and Teaching
Co-Hosted with the Nantucket Atheneum
Dates: May 2, 9:30 a.m. - noon, at the Atheneum's Gallery
This workshop will bring together discussions and hand-on activities
that amplify the importance of playful improvisation, conversation and
questioning as a means of incorporating the arts, play, and the
imagination into the core of schooling and education. In addition we
will consider how and why using objects and images of the natural
worlds in classroom settings can be a way of bringing children closer
to their instinctive interaction with 'nature' and our lives within
it. Pre-registration required, $25 fee, limit 30 attendees.
Register for the Educator Workshop on the Nantucket Atheneum Web site by clicking here.
Click here to learn more about Richard Lewis and the Touchstone Center.
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