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Grand Opening: Distance Learning 2020-2021 School Year
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many families have expressed interest in distance learning for the 2020-2021 school year. We are here to help! We have good news! TESLA Country Day will offer the following classes through a blended program of distance learning and field trips with optional meetups. TK and kindergarten combo class First Grade Second Grade Classes will take place online, live Zoom classes, one-on-one Zoom sessions, and meetups. Please call (858) 248-7125 to reserve your spot now. Classes are limited [...]
OC Family May 2019 Issue – A Fresh Take on Education
Women, mothers in particular, don’t get much credit for their roles as pioneers — people who break ground in arts or sciences or stand their ground when it comes to protecting and helping the underprivileged or underrepresented. But California has its share of these role models: Julia Morgan, the state’s first female architect and designer of Hearst Castle; Clara Shortridge Foltz, the state’s first female attorney who raised five children mostly as a single mother and who championed voting rights for women, the idea of [...]
Gratitude Garden Preschool is An Innovative Educational Home for Kids
San Clemente Lifestyle | February 28, 2018 Article and Photography Cara Elise Taylor San Clemente is home to one of Orange County’s few nature-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) schools. The students at The Gratitude Garden Preschool are inventing, building and experimenting with science in a non-toxic and nature-based environment. The Gratitude Garden is a magical and inspirational place. Each room is eco-friendly and beautifully designed, the teachers all have university degrees and credentials, and the students have animals to raise and plants to cultivate. There [...]
San Clemente Lifestyle January 2018 Issue – Teaching Financial Well-Being to Children
Many parents struggle with teaching their children to save, to spend, and to use money as a form of helping others. Some families believe that an allowance is earned through household duties, while other families believe that an allowance should be given regardless of duties. Whatever a family’s personal choice is, the responsibility of what to do with money is as great of a lesson as how children can earn it. Research indicates that children as young as age three can begin to understand the [...]
South of The Pier January 2018 Issue – Teach CODING to Children
Currently there is a huge demand for schools to be teaching coding to young children. Programming literacy is an incredibly important skill that all children today will need to know. According to research, 90 percent of parents in the U.S. want their children to learn computer science—it will be crucial for many jobs in the near future—but only 40 percent of schools teach it. Experts argue that parents of every student in every school, at every level, should demand that all students be taught how [...]
Talega Life October 2017 Issue – Health Consequences Near Highways
New findings by UCLA and the California Air Resources Board show that harmful pollutants from cars and trucks can drift more than a mile and a half from Southern California freeways, suggesting that air pollution’s effects could be more widespread than previously thought. According to a recent study by The Keck School of Medicine at USC, children who lived or attended school within approximately a third of a mile to a highway, since age ten, had substantial deficits in lung function by the age of [...]
Talega Life March 2017 Issue – Spring Time Service for Families
Spring break will be coming up soon and many parents are wondering what to do with their children during this week long time off of school. Both working families and families with one parent at home have a variety of options to teach their children real world learning and service during this valuable time together. Volunteering in the community has is a powerful approach to teaching with authentic learning experiences. Children often see the connections to what they learn in academic content to real-world context. [...]
Talega Life January 2017 Issue – Raising a Resilient Child
Raising resilient children is every parent’s goal. There are over 100 parenting books that focus on the topic. We all want our children to bounce back from adversity, stay strong under pressure, make good decisions when no one is looking, and be their own problem-solver. Resilient children do not do everything on their own, rather, they know how to ask for help and are able to problem-solve their next steps. A parent’s job isn’t to be there all the time for their kids, our job [...]