Chinese New Year!

Some Fun Pix from Fall & Winter at Tree Top!

Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Developmentally Appropriate means the setting and the teacher responses are right for the age and stage of teach child in the program. Various teaching methods are explored, along with cultural diversity, curriculum versus schedule planning, adult-child interactions, and activity areas based on the child's experience. At Tree Top School we employ these practices every day to ensure all the children are thriving and reaching their potential in a way that is special to them.

School's Open!

Waiting for the bus...

School bus arriving!

Summertime Fun at TreeTop

Teddy Bear picnic...

Picking blueberries...

We all scream for ice cream!

Handmade sun visor craft project...

School Graduation

Annual graduation at Ft McClary, Kittery Point Me.

Gentleness

by Fred Rogers

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other concepts--like aggression and even violence.

One of the signs of this confusion is the way many people seem to consider strength an appropriate attribute of men, while thinking gentleness is something women should possess. To me, that seems very far from the truth. We all need the capacity for both strength and gentleness. The opposite of strength isn't gentleness but weakness, and the opposite of gentleness isn't strength but violence.