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Teal Band Launches into the By Sea Arc
The Teal Band launched right into The Movement of Things By Sea Arc this week. We began the week with a mind map of where the exploration phase of this arc will take us. Our large topics of study will...
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The journey to Angel Island
The week before spring break took us on a journey to Angel Island and through the lives of the Chinese immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s. On Monday, the Teal and Violet bands studied...
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Sailing, Squid, and Monterey Bay
The Teal and Violet Bands have been sailing full steam ahead (wow, the number of water-related puns are unbelievable) these past two weeks. We have dedicated ourselves to studying sailing and beginning...
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
As the Amber and Violet bands continue to look at value, we are exploring the ways that value is assigned. How do we assign value? Does something have value if it is free? We recently discovered a...
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Violet Band’s Exciting Week
This week we transitioned back into the classroom, after last week’s epic adventures. On Monday, the Violetiers gave presentations on Cloth Items that were listed on our packing lists from the Angel...
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Week of Sewing & Typing
What a wonderful week of pattern drafting and sewing exploration, interwoven with NaNoWriMo storytelling. On Monday, we finalized our cloth math and visited Fabric Outlet to purchase materials for our...
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Wearable Shelter
Amber and Violet band set out to explore the question: How might you draft a pattern that transforms an ordinary piece of clothing into wearable shelter? We started by taking a closer look at how our...
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Coming back from winter break, the Violet Band set right to work on their Expression projects. The projects exhibited illustrate a diversity of thought surrounding the concept of “Cloth”; everything...
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Exploring Neighborhoods and Enjoying Some Food
We began our exploration of neighborhoods and streets with an exercise in mental mapping. Working step by step, we drew from memory the streets radiating out from our homes, then layering on...
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A week of neighborhoods, communities, the Castro, buffalo wings and Lava Mae
What is it about your neighborhoods that we cherish most? What would we find in our ideal neighborhood? What services support our communities? These are just a few of the questions that the Teal and...
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