This week in our reading class, we will be exploring the word “at.”  What can WE do with the word “at?”  Reading, like any project for very young children, needs to be active and interesting enough for children to want to explore it, tame the wild and unmanageable thing that it seems to be, and come to terms with it. Reading is a huge mountain to climb, and one can either climb it by being dragged over rough spots and hurting all the way, unsure, afraid of any cliffs or crags, or one can approach the mountain with the same youthful eye that brave children scan the playground. Reading, after all, is an adventure. The equipment is there, packing it correctly, using it correctly is the same discipline of any active activity.  A careful but aggressive climb into this “sport of reading” is what we will be doing at the Garden School this year. So today, and most of this week, we will be hiking the foothills of reading with making words with “at.” Nope, it’s not the convention…it’s a brand new approach. It’s an “I can do this all by myself” approach to one of the things that either makes or breaks a child’s education. Sooo…our equipment has been gathered, we have instructions about keeping our equipment in good order, we will get our climbing instructions today…and up we go to “at” and all that “at” can be…