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Try, try and try
Will or won't it rain seemed to be the question of the week. From our point of view, we did very well, got to be outside and dodge the...
Collette
Oct 8, 20213 min read
Middle School ELA and Social Studies
Things are getting busy for our middle schoolers! This week in ELA we learned about characterization, read different short stories, and...
Maya Montemurro
Oct 7, 20211 min read
MS Science & Engineering 10/1
Hi famz! It’s fall, y'all, and we are finally (ok, occasionally) feeling the temperature and humidity drop around the cabin. With a few...
Ed Haponik
Oct 4, 20212 min read
Something Fishy (Sustainability 9/27-10/1)
This week Sustainability was all about the fish. And the plants. And the nitrifying bacteria (can’t forget the bacteria!) Link all those...
Paula Gross
Oct 4, 20212 min read
Greetings from The Forest
We have had such a lovely couple of weeks! Autumn officially arrived and we celebrated by collecting quartz from the creek and making a...
judith2957
Oct 3, 20211 min read
Upper El (Mr. D): New Species
Our afternoons this week were full of writing and continuing our Evolution Project with a fun "game" I created to better understand...
Derek Henig
Oct 3, 20212 min read
End of an era....and a new beginning
It was with sadness that we watched some trees disappear on Friday from our playground. It is always sad to watch a tree come down and to...
Collette
Oct 2, 20211 min read
Upper El (Ms. Shannon) - “Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all….
“Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all, my worries seem so very small, with my waterfall.” Jimi Hendrix The highlight of the week for the...
shannon7481
Oct 1, 20212 min read
MS Science & Engineering 9/26
It was another fun week in and around the middle school cabin. The weather took a turn toward the delightful just in time for the fall...
Ed Haponik
Sep 26, 20212 min read
All systems go! (Sustainability 9/20-24)
This week, upper el and middle schoolers worked to wrap their brains around a big idea called “systems thinking”. Translated into...
Paula Gross
Sep 26, 20212 min read
Middle School ELA and SS (9/20 - 9/24)
This week in ELA we focused on dramatic structure. Students learned and reviewed the elements of plot and Gustav Freytag's plot pyramid....
Maya Montemurro
Sep 26, 20211 min read
Upper El with Ms. Shannon - Peace, Autumn and More Birthdays
The International Day of Peace was Tuesday, 9/21. In morning circle we read the UN's Secretary General's message for 2021. The kids...
shannon7481
Sep 24, 20212 min read
Lower El - Short Week, Full Days
The week began with the children off to camp. I hear it was a wonderful experience for all, despite the rain. The children came back...
Heidi Kelly
Sep 24, 20211 min read
Upper El (Mr. D): Natural Selection
This week we started new stories and continued our quest to explore the topic of Life by diving into Darwinian Evolution. For our...
Derek Henig
Sep 24, 20212 min read
Criss cross apple sauce
How do we count the ways in which Primary is a team? This week I was especially grateful to Ms. Judith & Ms. Belkis for carrying on...
Collette
Sep 24, 20211 min read
First Overnight Trip of the Year!
The week Lower Elementary headed up to the mountains of western North Carolina to Camp Rockmont for their overnight adventure. Not only...
kathleen McIntyre
Sep 24, 20211 min read
Upper El Out & About (Ms. Shannon)
Over the past two weeks, we've been in and out quite a bit. After returning post Labor Day, we read about why we actually have the day...
shannon7481
Sep 17, 20212 min read
Week of 9/13 …Conferences
It was really great to have time to talk with everyone this week. We learn so much about your child from you which of course helps us...
Collette
Sep 17, 20211 min read
Middle School ELA/SS (9/6 - 9/10)
This week in ELA we complete our mini-unit on descriptive writing and began a mini-unit that introduced strategies for literary analysis....
Maya Montemurro
Sep 13, 20211 min read
MS Science & Engineering 9/10
Hi everybody! This week, middle school brought the HEAT. More accurately, I suppose we tried to design devices which would take advantage...
Ed Haponik
Sep 12, 20211 min read
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