Water's Edge School Weblog

Our thanks to Donna Brooks for forwarding this article along:
http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/tech-gets-a-time-out
As always, please feel free to share comments!

Thanks to Susan Love for sharing this find with our blog community:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02engel.html?emc=eta1

Great article about a study about the ages children learn to read and whether or not late readers showed any disadvantages later on:
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/research-finds-no-advantage-learning-read-age-five/5/33888
Thanks to Donna Brooks for forwarding this along.  Comments on the article are welcome!

This recent article has been passed around by a number of parents and teachers at our school.  We’ve decided to share it here, so it can be easily passed along to the rest of our community as well as friends and family:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1940395-1,00.html
Please feel free to leave comments here!

Water’s Edge School has been entered in the America’s Favorite Schools Contest sponsored by Care2.com and GreatSchools.net!  Please go add  your vote now and help us try to win $20,000 for the school:
http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/1706718?refer=17494.02.1256047008.102874

Water’s Edge parent, Claudia M. Lenart has written another wonderful article!  Here is the link to it:
http://nutrition.suite101.com/article.cfm/best_brain_foods_for_children
Feel free to share your comments too!

An article on Slow Parenting that I think will sound very familiar to many of our Waldorf families…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=36995
Please share your thoughts!