GROW
in
PLACE
Real Life Curriculum
Cleveland Elementary School
Oakland, California
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GROW
Welcome to This Great Moment!
Welcome to This Great Moment!
In the midst of our fast paced society, the constant push for productivity, instant gratification, and intensive attention to technology, most of us humans have lost a sense of place in the natural world around us. This is the great moment to develop that sense of place again...to get to know and love the ecosystem we are part of, the vast dynamic web of our connectedness, and to learn and act from that deep sense of place.
4 Tools for Cultivating Place-Based Education
4 Tools for Cultivating Place-Based Education
Sit Spot
Sit Spot
Daily individual
silent time listening to nature.
Group Nature
Observation
Group Nature
Observation
A guide for family learning.
Nature Journaling
Nature Journaling
Home Gardening
Home Gardening
Let's stay Rooted, Connected, and GROW in our sense of PLACE.
There is no greater learning resource than this!
Let's stay Rooted, Connected, and GROW in our sense of PLACE.
There is no greater learning resource than this!
A POEM to keep in our pockets at this challenging time.
A POEM to keep in our pockets at this challenging time.
Written by Nadine Anne Hura, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Written by Nadine Anne Hura, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Rest now, e Papatūānuku ( Mother Earth )
Breathe easy and settle
Right here where you are
We’ll not move upon you
For awhile
We’ll stop, we’ll cease
We’ll slow down and stay home
Draw each other close and be kind
Kinder than we’ve ever been.
I wish we could say
we were doing it for you
as much as ourselves
But hei aha
We’re doing it anyway
It’s right. It’s time.
Time to return
Time to remember
Time to listen and forgive
Time to withhold judgment
Time to cry
Time to think
About others
Remove our shoes
Press hands to soil
Sift grains between fingers
Gentle palms
Time to plant
Time to wait
Time to notice
To whom we belong
For now it’s just you
And the wind
And the forests and the oceans
and the sky full of rain
Finally, it’s raining!
Ka turuturu te wai kamo o Rangi ki runga i a koe
( Maori phrase meaning - “tears from the eyes of Ranginui drip down on you”
Ranginui is our sky father,
it is common to refer to rain as
the tears of Rangi for his beloved,
from whom he was separated
at the beginning of time
in order that there could be light in the world).
Embrace it
This sacrifice of solitude we have carved out for you
He iti noaiho - a small offering which is a treasure
People always said it wasn’t possible
To ground flights and stay home
and stop our habits of consumption
But it was
It always was.
We were just afraid of how much it was going to hurt
- and it IS hurting and it will hurt and continue to hurt
But not as much as you have been hurt.
So be still now
Wrap your hills around our absence
Loosen the concrete belt
cinched tight at your waist
- Rest.
- Breathe.
- Recover.
- Heal
And we will do the same.
...... By Jacinda Ardern .....
Prime Minister of New Zealand
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