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School news
We’re so eager to open our doors and build this community together. The school is beautiful, we’re excited about our teaching partnership, and with maybe just one more winter event… spring feels so close. We are ready to burst forth and grow! We stay hopeful that our start date is May. We feel great about…
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Look, see!
Our first open house took place today, introducing our current in-home childcare families to the new, combined program that will be Tigerlily, the children’s new school, starting in March. So much love has gone into everything we’re building here. It’s wonderful to see children begin to fill the space with life. Not pictured: all the…
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Covid thoughts
Here’s our most recent thinking around covid and our plans for Tigerlily. Marie and Lulu have both been teaching through the pandemic in separate programs and are now working together on the covid safety protocol for Tigerlily as we get closer to open enrollment in early February. From Marie: On the Friday before Christmas I…
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Teacher news
“I joined up with these teachers and started to work with the children, teaching them as we ourselves were learning.” – Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children This is Marie writing to say (shout!) I am delighted to announce that Lulu Bautista and I will be teaching together at Tigerlily next year. We originally…
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Let’s build our school
I’ve spent covid watching my son grow from babyhood to now getting ready to celebrate his third birthday next week. About four months into quarantine life, a dear teacher friend connected me with another toddler family and so I’ve been using our home to do “baby school” three days a week. For going on seventeen…
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make bubbles
Our 2014 Austin Maker Faire project, Code name Bubbles: Imagining new ideas, featured 40 gallons of bubble solution and household tools to experiment with. The Tigerlilies’ favorite bubble makers are children’s plastic coat hangers and some placemats I found at IKEA last year. If you have children you probably already have the coat hangers and…
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We are all makers
Austin Mini Maker Faire is just a few days away and I’m eagerly hoarding way too much stuff in my garage, sorry Josh! gearing up for our contribution this year as Code name Bubbles: Imagining New Ideas. Once again I can’t wait to see what people create there! Last year it was interesting to observe many adults engaging…
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we’re launching our woodworking curriculum!
we’re launching our woodworking curriculum! …because real tools build real skills.
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Save the date: parenting workshop 2/23/14
Loving Limits” How to say “no” with love and respect, and why it’s important, with Bethany Prescott. Setting appropriate limits with children, and sticking to them, is a challenging but incredibly important task for parents. This workshop focuses on both the “why” and the “how” of limit setting. We will practice using language in our…