I was thinking about buttercups. I want to remember them
because they’re so special and magical.
–Preschool student, age 5

The better I know my place, the less it looks like other places
and the more it looks like itself. It is imagination, and only
imagination, that can give standing to these distinctions.
–Wendell Berry

Teachers here have been exploring place with children for many years, beginning by going outside the boundaries of the buildings and playgrounds in order to see what learning might happen in the natural areas around us. The scope of our work in the forests, fields and park that border our two campuses has opened up our collective view of ’school’. We have come to inhabit all of the places of our school, indoors and out, so you might find children in the classroom, but you might also find them in the garden or at the creek.