RattleBag and Rhubarb

Come Play the Way we Learn

Come play the way we learn – it’s an invitation and it’s on a billboard right there on Hooker Avenue*. The invitation is to the big event we have coming up on Saturday – Fall Festival  Reimagined. I love that invitation because it strikes right at the heart of the negative stereotype that I heard so much about when I…

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Bloxology: The Art and Science of thinking out of, inside, with and beyond the Blox.

Bloxes – they’re everywhere. All over the Chapman Room and now migrating to the lobby and Kenyon. What’s a blox? It’s a corrugated cardboard cube. It arrives in six flat pieces. When folded into a grown-up lego-like building block it’s a fascination. It’s a portmanteau word. Web + Log = Blog Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch Box + Block =Blox…

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“Parents needed as Play Agents?… Surely You’re Joking PDS!”

If you’ve been to the webpage, read your email,  looked at Facebook or been on campus you will know that the  FFR (Fall Festival Reimagined) wing of the PA is actively recruiting older students and parents to be Play Agents for the big event on Saturday, November 19th. Readers of this blog will know that I’m a card-carrying believer in…

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