Subcategories of Learning Through Experience
Sunflower Roots & Shoots Kids Get Outside!
This month our Roots & Shoots club held our third annual Let’s G.O.! (Get Outside!) Event for kids at Serenoa Glade Preserve in ... read more
Priming the Pump
At Sunflower we have an old metal groundwater pump. The pump is attached to a large bin which, when filled, can spout water when hand ... read more
Familiar Sounds
Overheard at Sunflower’s Seedling Family Kick-Off… I close my eyes and let the sound surround me. These familiar sounds ... read more
Sunflower Summer Reading: your life on technology
This week on the Sunflower blog we’re talking about technology and its potential to both enhance and complicate our lives. This ... read more
Playful morning
It’s Friday 5:30 AM, on my way to 6 AM yoga. This morning I am met with a damp chill and sweet smelling air filled with birdsong. Over ... read more
Our Place in it All
The wave came over the top of my head and then I was twisting, spinning, thrashing, and unable to breath. I had sand in my mouth and I ... read more
Ageless Music
The skin-draped bones touch the corners of his mouth Lids softly shut, eyelashes pale wisps We chatted with his son Like parents do. A ... read more
Lessons from Seedlings
My daughters’ time at Seedlings shaped the big kids they’ve become today. And, while they were learning to experiment and explore and ... read more
Do you have a hybrid mind?
“What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology? How can each of us help ... read more
My phone is my lifeline
Part two in our series about technology and its potential to both enhance and complicate our lives. Read Susan‘s and ... read more
I call it tiny. My kids call it nature.
Sunflower blogger Victoria won 4th place in KaBOOM!’s recent guest blogging contest. For those of you who missed it, check it out read more
Remember play?
Whenever I ask a group of adults to share a favorite play experience from their childhood there is a visible shift in their bodies. ... read more
Improvisation
I dropped Sierra off at Seedlings this morning and rushed back out the gate. “I’m running home where it’s quiet to write my blog for ... read more
Give them time (a story of watercolors and preschooler theoretical physics)
I was walking through the room headed off to do something important somewhere else, with no intention of stopping or even lingering to ... read more
Taking Action for Play: 2013 US Play Coalition Conference
Last year Jaime and I attended the US Play Coalition Conference on the Value of Play at Clemson University, where we marveled at the ... read more
Heart Songs
Everybody needs a little music in their lives. Some of my most special childhood memories involve the people I love sharing songs with ... read more
The Gift of Words
School is starting! School is starting! Many of our school-age kids are headed back to classes next week, and our preschoolers are ... read more
A Place in Nature, Just for Me
One of the best things about shifting my life to Evanston, Ilinois, each spring is the fragrance of lilacs that permeates the air. When read more
Where are all the kids?
Sunflower blogger Jaime won 1st place in KaBOOM!’s recent guest blogging contest. Check it out below and on KaBOOM!’s Play Today blog. ... read more