February 2012
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Watch My band’s group name was “The Ssalson Raptors” but two weeks ago we changed it to “The Marshmallow Ninja Cats”, sometimes we just say Ninja Cats. The first week and a half we were going to the park pretty much every day. As you might know from the last post the theme of our present arc is Motion. At the park we’re doing Cherry Drops, Twirls, motion related...
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Thanksgiving Surprise!
I was off of school last Wednesday — the day before Thanksgiving — so I was out with my friend Evan and his dad, then we got dropped off at my house. We went into my room and Evan went over to see my guinea pigs. As you know, I got Chewie for my birthday and several months later, we finally got him a friend. We wanted to get a male because my mom didn’t want them having babies....
October 2011
2 posts
Introducing: Kid City!
We just finished building Kid City. My schoolmates and I were building it for the Expression phase of our City Arc. Kid City is a place where each kid gets their own space to have some down time and do their own thing. We have school in a warehouse in one big open space and sometimes it gets very loud. We have a library in our space but it doesn’t block out the sound completely and kids...
September 2011
9 posts
More About Brightworks
I bet you’ve been wondering how my school works so i’m going to try to tell you. The year is made up of several arcs and every arc has a theme. A theme is a topic and this arc’s theme is Cities. Each arc also has three phases — Exploration, Expression, and Exposition. Exploration is where we go on field trips, talk to experts and share ideas about the theme. Expression is...
“He invented a myth. There’s not really any prior evidence of a freshwater lake....”
– Historian Chris Carlsson, commenting of the man whose maps led to the widespread belief in the famed Mission Lagoon
WatchToday was the first day of my new school, Brightworks. It was different than I expected. It seemed a little like camp. There weren’t that many strict rules and we spent more time out of the building than I expected.
Here’s a video of something we did today.