Katherine Michiels School
For more than four decades, Katherine Michiels School (KMS) has served Bay Area children and families.
Welcome to Katherine Michiels School
Since 1976, Katherine Michiels School (KMS) has served Bay Area children and families. We pride ourselves on providing high-quality, affordable education within a nurturing, child-centered environment. Our mission is to foster each child's experience of the world so that he or she can blossom to potential and become a compassionate, autonomous and contributing
09/19/2024
Join us this Saturday, September 21st from 9:00AM - 12:00PM for an Open House!
Learning at KMS is collaborative, and evolves from joyful exploration, curiosity, and discovery emphasizing self-confidence and social skills. KMS is a place for students and families who want an innovative approach to education that allows for both strong collaboration and individual attention.
Please email [email protected] to register for a 30 minute time slot.
09/09/2024
Scenes from the KMS New School Year Picnic that took place this past weekend in beautiful McLaren Park. KMS Families soaked in the surroundings while enjoying and rebuilding friendships as we embrace the new school year!
08/30/2024
In the After School, artists created vibrant, collaborative artworks allowing color, spontaneity, and intuition lead the way. Each mark documents the joy and action of the experience of making and talking about art.
08/27/2024
The first day of school!
KMS Learners started off this school year full of joy, stories, and purposeful play as they joined their teachers, new and old friends, as partners and researchers.
08/26/2024
The Reggio Emilia approach emphasizes the essential relationship between the learner and their surroundings. The environment not only speaks to us, but serves and teaches us.
KMS has undergone quite a transformation during Professional Development Week. In addition to our new, vibrant blue, our teachers dedicated real time and focus optimizing our spaces. Teachers collaboratively enhanced all of KMS' dynamic and exciting learning environments designed to stimulate learners, encourage exploration, foster research, and to prioritize the joy of learning.
08/06/2024
Weaving the Back Deck fence has been an ongoing project this Summer. It started with Summer Campers waving bracelets and starting their own friendship bracelet store and turned into an installation for the whole school!
07/10/2024
Summer Campers created unique works of art using the pigments found in the flowers growing in our garden.
07/08/2024
Scenes from Summer Camp Session 1: Nature Makers.
Campers utilized materials from nature, explored transformation as a big idea, and put on an art show for the entire KMS School Community!
06/23/2024
Word of the Week: "Transformation"
Summer Camp Artists have been working hard transforming found and natural materials to create individual and collaborative compositions focused on texture, movement, and color.
06/20/2024
The best part about making art is the process!
06/15/2024
This week KMS Artists kicked off Summer Camp, making in nature. Campers found organic materials from the garden to explore pigments, textures, and composition.
06/12/2024
In honor of Maria Luna's 40-year tenure at KMS, we announced at this years ArtFest that we are naming the Spanish Room after her.
May Maria Luna’s example continue to give every student a love for the Spanish Language and an appreciation for the ancient cultures who came before them.
Since 1984 Maria has brought a love for Mexican Folk Dance, music and the Spanish Language to generations of KMS students. Those who have learned from her have known the joy of performance - standing tall, projecting your voice and staying in character. Her strength, grace and humor is admired by many. She is a lover of beautiful things and without her the KMS environment would not be what it is today. We cherish and are grateful for your contributions to KMS.
06/09/2024
Our last days of the 2023/2024 school year were filled with homemade healthy frozen treats, plenty of time in the garden, lots of reflection, and all the love.
We wish everyone a healthy and happy Summer Break and look forward to seeing everyone at Summer Camp!
06/08/2024
KMS Learners ended the school year on a tasty note - a KMS Tradition brought back this year, the pie toss!
06/07/2024
Congratulations Dania! Your creativity knows no ends and you are a friend to all.
We can't wait to see what you accomplish next year.
But first were so happy you will be joining KMS Summer Camp as an assistant counselor!
06/06/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!"
KMS Elementary Students performed "La Serpiente Emplumada" (Pre-Hispanic Song).
KMS students collaborated on every aspect of this performance from the creation of La Serpiente to their synergistic movements on stage!
06/06/2024
Yolanda Ancheta's dedication to KMS was honored at this year's ArtFest when the Peach Pitt in Peach Palace was named after her, marking her 30 years of service.
May her example inspire every teacher who dedicates their time to the growth of lives at their earliest stages.
When Yolnada interviewed at KMS in 1994 she had recently moved from the Philippines to San Francisco. Yolanda had been a college professor so when she saw what was then called Dirt Mountain with children playing freely covered in mud she thought to herself “this isn't for me”. Thankfully she gave KMS a chance because she soon discovered she was a natural at fostering the growth of young children. Watching her connect with a toddler is like watching a magician at work.
06/05/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!"
Thank you KMS teachers for all of your dedication, energy, and hard work!
Thank you Maria Luna for all of your wisdom, experience, talent, and grace inspiring our learners and putting this performance all together!
06/04/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!"
KMS Peaches performed "De Colores," a traditional Mexican Folk Song with their Grown-Ups!
"De colores, de colores son los parjaritos que vienen de afuera.
De colores, de colores es el arco iris que vemos lucir!"
(In colors, in colors the young birds arriving from afar. In colors, in colors the brilliant rainbow we spy!)
06/04/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!"
KMS Pre Kindergartners entered the stage soaring gracefully like Frida's Eagle Gertrudis!
Like her eagle, Frida's imagination could fly high.
One day she said: "Pies para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar?"
(Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?)
06/04/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024 "¡Viva la Vida!"
KMS Pumpkins performed with energy, gusto, and joy using their bodies and voices to fill the Amphitheater!
06/03/2024
Scenes from: ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!"
Thank you Students, Families, Teachers, Maria Luna, and the talented Arwen and Jorge from for an enchanting celebration and performance!
We are grateful to for making it possible for us to host the performance at the stunning Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in McLaren Park!
05/31/2024
“Pies para que los quiero, si tengo alas para volar?" – Frida Kahlo
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
We are excited for ArtFest 2024, "¡Viva la Vida!" taking place tomorrow! Performers are to arrive in costume at 8:30AM with a performance start time of 9:30AM at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in McLaren Park.
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05/30/2024
We are grateful to have such a supportive community at KMS.
Yesterday, our families enjoyed a performance with , shared handmade gifts by our students, and celebrated with family, friends, and teachers.
05/28/2024
Engaging the senses with a myriad of hues, fragrances, and vivid tactile sensations, flowers become a captivating medium for KMS learners to immerse themselves. The flowers are transformed into dynamic provocations that ignite deeper studying and next level thinking.
05/27/2024
"The shadows tell me which way to go next." - Annie, 5 years, 7 months
05/25/2024
KMS ArtFest is 1 week away!
Performer Arrival: 8:30 AM
Performance Start: 9:30 AM
We look forward to seeing everyone at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater at McClaren Park, next Saturday, June 1st!
05/25/2024
Today, KMS Teachers dove deep into our Reggio roots during professional development day!
We reflected on our practices as educators, engaged in open dialogue around elevating our learning environments, collaborated and brainstormed new and exciting learning activities, and best of all rehearsed for the upcoming ArtFest!
ArtFest is Saturday, June 1st at 9:30 at McLaren Park.
05/24/2024
Learning is a process of constructing, testing and reconstructing theories, constantly creating new knowledge while pushing the boundaries of materials and questions.
"I built so many towers because I got better at it each time. I made lots of drawings because my towers were really balanced." - Oliver, 4 years, 9 months
05/23/2024
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Reggio Emilia Evening Salon!
Grown-ups, teachers, and students came together for an interactive dialogue showcasing the Reggio Emilia approach to how we learn and grow at KMS, as individuals and as a community!
“Our task is to help children communicate with the world using all their potential, strengths and languages, and to overcome any obstacle presented by our culture.” - Loris Malaguzzi
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Founded in 1976, Katherine Michiels School has chosen the humanistic, progressive pedagogies of the Reggio Emilia educational approach and Council in Schools as our educational compass. Both approaches see the child as a competent and equal partner in the educational journey.
We pride ourselves on providing high-quality education within a nurturing, child-centered environment in all our programs: Infants through 5th Grade. Our mission is to foster each child's experience of the world so that he or she can blossom to potential and become a compassionate, autonomous and contributing member of society.
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1335 Guerrero Street
San Francisco, CA
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