Category GAP

Prepare Your Home School

Here are a few staples that it would be great for each child to have at their home-school.  The basics: crayons  (wax crayons; don’t go with oil pastels as you will never get it off your carpet/walls/furniture/work clothes/dog’s fur) pencil…

Rest Time is Important

Want to maintain a GAP-like routine at home at rest time? (Hint: The correct answer is yes! It will keep you and your children SANE!) The GAP children are used to listening to 40 minutes from our Ruhezeit (rest time)…

Going on a Bear Hunt

Looking for some extra fun while you are walking in your neighborhood? Perhaps you and Oma and Opa would like to join in the fun while staying safe indoors, too. Pop a teddy bear (or a few of them) in your…

Setting Routines at home

Here are our tips for setting a routine at home, now that the family are working and schooling from home. * Set a routine schedule for the kids; it helps make things predictable for the children.  * Communicate with your…

We love the Arboretum.

We love the Arboretum so much, we have been a couple of times this year. We even helped launch their new network of trails and discovered there is more to the Arboretum than the fabulous acorn playground. We scrambled over…

The joys of volunteering

We really appreciate our volunteers at Spielwelt. Our parents (and of course the children) are what make our community so wonderful. While the organisation certainly benefits from volunteers, it would seem that the volunteers benefit themselves. For example: Each term,…

Haig Park Nature Playground

We absolutely adore the new nature playground that has been installed in Haig Park as part of the Haig Park Experiments. We really hope it is allowed to stay. Please urge the ACT government to let this amazing nature playground…