Next to our Capoeira Studio are wild gardens, once planted and tended. For some time, they had not had much attention, but with the initiative and hard work of one of our parents, the permission and encouragement of our Capoeira studio, FICA D.C., and help from our kids, we are reinvigorating and reinventing the space. It was quite a bit of work to pull the existing weeds, grass, and old plants. But underneath were the bare bones of a garden, complete with a little stone b

City Kids has spent some time this year (as we do every year) studying Indigenous People of North America. Recently, we learned about the differing theories of how the first people populated this land, including the theory of the Bering Straight crossing and of earlier crossings using the kelp highway. We also spent some time learning about early technology, such as Clovis points. To round out our unit, we visited a reproduction of a longhouse to study and celebrate the tec