From the mundane to the fantastic, the students looked at tools in a new way. Tinkering with machines, taking them apart, putting them back together, putting the pieces together in different ways, making little robots, making big robots - lots of deconstruction and construction went on this month with make labs led by All Hands Active. Middle school students studied the evolution of tools through the ages and used their projects to introduce the theme to the younger children. Kids encountered antique tools and discovered their uses, and wrote tool's-eye-view stories about their imaginary adventures. The month's experience was an eye-opener: tools for art, tools for music, tools for science, tools for math... chidren encountered and used many tools both familiar and new to them to support their explorations of different academic subjects. Read about some of them here. Kindergartners honed their time-telling skills; older children explored science with the help of visiting experts. Tools led to American legend in music and to techniques and imagination in art, It was an amazingly rich month, full of invention and association. So much fun, so much intensely meaningful work. Kudos to all!