Grow and Share - Upper El
Last week, Upper El walked to the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson to deliver our school-grown kale. The kale was grown in the dome using...
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Paula Gross
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Spring Growth, 3/12
The cascade of spring growth and activity is well underway - even if the calander is just settling into March. With the excitement of...
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Paula Gross
- Feb 15
- 1 min
Sustainability, 2/15
"I've got work to do." This spirit of this refrain from one of my favorite "Ms. Kathleen" songs rises up joyfully in your children when...
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Paula Gross
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Stirrings, 2/5
Can you feel the stirrings of spring? This week, even through the chill of February air, we heard and saw signs of a shift. The...
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Paula Gross
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Global Goals and Food Webs (1/13)
Middle Schoolers are starting off the second semester of Sustainability by broadening their lens to the Global level. In 2015, the United...
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Paula Gross
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Welcoming Winter (12/16)
It has felt like a time of wrapping up the last two weeks. Wrapping up projects, ourselves in more layers, and the calendar year. As we...
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Paula Gross
- Dec 4, 2022
- 2 min
Sustainability Report (12/4)
Kindergarteners completed their plant models to reflect their interpretation of the six plant parts we’ve been learning about. This was a...
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Paula Gross
- Nov 17, 2022
- 2 min
Sustainability, Nov. 18
Plants, animals, markets, weather, community, dreams, hard work, and biodiversity. All characters in the documentary that UE watched last...
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Paula Gross
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
The Wheel is Turning (Sustainability, 11/7)
What a glorious and busy October its been, sweeping us into November! We've been treated to an amazing display of fall color this season...
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Paula Gross
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Sustainability 10/9
How can we trust the harvest, unless we see it sown? - Mary Renault Between different classes, we've done a little sowing, a little...
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Paula Gross
- Sep 24, 2022
- 1 min
Autumn Activity (Sustainability 9/24)
Candle-crafting with Ms. Kathleen What better way to mark the Fall Equinox than with a practical and historical winter-prep activity? Our...
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Paula Gross
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
Circling back (Sustainability, 9/18)
This week in Sustainability we built upon the animal care lessons and farm work that began last week and added in the start of...
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Paula Gross
- Sep 11, 2022
- 1 min
It's ALL connected (Sustainability, 9/10)
We continued our reorientation to the DGS farm and natural community this week, and discovered that we are, indeed, a complex web of...
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Paula Gross
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Down in the cabin, in the woods, in the shade... (Sustainability)
The cabin, well-used for the first 10 years of DGS awesomeness, has shifted from classroom to office and back several times over. It is...
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