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		<title>Mixed-age, Play-based learning: Ancient and Modern</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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A few years ago, I noticed a dramatic shift in the needs of parents. No longer was I receiving calls primarily from parents of three, four and five year olds, rather, I had as many calls from parents of two year olds. Many years before, at the Waldorf School I had witnessed a similar shift. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science on the Playground</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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“How does the world work, and how do I fit into it?” This is the daily, living question of the young child. We can allow plenty of time and plenty of space for our children to wonder, to explore, to experiment, to keep trying, to learn. And isn’t much of learning discovering the right questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridge between School and Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, friends!  It is September and school has begun again.  The children are full of joy to be back into the simple warm rhythms; enfolded by this rhythmic flow, they grow more fully into themselves.  Here is what one parent wrote me about the bridge her child has built between home and school:
&#8220;The school day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feed. Play. Love.  Virtual Conference April 5-21</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is spring, here in the Virginia woods.  The forsythia reigns golden above the deck, and the daffodils sway in the dogwood-scented breeze.  The Rose Garden children are gearing up for their &#8220;summer-games&#8221;  Today they found catkins which had fallen from the trees to the ground, and quickly made fairy houses in which to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rich Abundance of Simplicity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It had rained in the night, and the playground was wet yesterday morning.  I had kept bags of raked leaves from the fall, for this exact sort of moment.  I emptied a bag, so the children and I could rake a path of leaves from the gate to the door.  When I emptied  the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Thinking Childhood: Parenting and Educating Children in a Time of Global Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In agricultural societies, winter is the time to think-through and plan for the future.  Decisions regarding which crops to continue, which fields to allow to remain fallow, and new seeds to experiment with are at the forefront of farmer&#8217;s minds.  Today, as I watch the snowfall just  outside my window, I also am thinking of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Green Space&#8221; and Winter Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia has had a very cold winter so far:  many, many days the temperature is below freezing, and plenty of days in the 20&#8217;s.  This has not phased The Rose Garden children, as we play in the woods!  As Helle Heckman says:  &#8220;There is no such thing as bad weather, there is only bad clothing!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter has arrived on The Rose Garden playground and the children are ready to play!  But what you see here is not all fun and games: according to a CNN article yesterday, the learning that takes place in childhood through the magic of creative play serves them not only on the playground, but in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lantern Walk is Coming!</title>
		<link>http://www.ourheavenonearth.net/family-consultation/the-lantern-walk-is-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn is a time to turn around and survey the work of the year.  A time to assess what has developed, before we make plans for what is to come.  In doing this, I looked back to my first post on this blog, and here is what I found.  At the exact moment we begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anything Can Be Anything!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharifa Oppenheimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quote from Heaven on Earth&#8217;s chapter about creative play:
In thinking of the young child’s free creative play materials, a fitting motto we can keep in mind is, “Anything can be anything.” But what does that mean? Children need play materials that are open-ended enough to meet new needs each day, to fill [...]]]></description>
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