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Adventures in Lower Elementary: Learning Sustainability in Action

Happy Earth Day from Lower Elementary! 🌎💚 Today feels like the perfect time to reflect on our wonderful field trip last Friday to the Whitewater Center, where we spent the day learning, exploring, and celebrating the natural world together. One of the highlights of the day was time spent in the forest playground, where the children climbed, created, collaborated, and enjoyed the simple joy of being outdoors with one another. Watching children play freely in nature is always

Lower Elementary

Katie Egan

Apr 221 min read

Earth Day and lots of porch lessons!

We celebrated Earth Day by reciting a Pledge to the Earth and placing our hands on our beautiful trees to say a poem of appreciation to them. Here was our poem: Thank you tree for branches strong For shade that cools me and makes the day not as long. Thank you for oxygen to help me breathe. Thank you, tree! You mean so much to me! Then we admired the height of our amazing trees. We opened several new lessons on the porch: Window washing Land and Water Forms: Lake and Islan

jenniferstallings0

Apr 221 min read

Discovery Starts Early: Introducing Montessori Mornings at DGS

At Davidson Green School, we believe that education is a natural process that begins long before a child ever puts pencil to paper, or calculates a sum. It starts with the tiny hands that reach out to touch a textured fabric, the curious eyes that track a butterfly in the woods, and the blossoming confidence of a child realizing, "I can do it myself." This summer, we are thrilled to open our doors to our youngest neighbors and their families for our new program: Montessori Mo

Primary Class

Derek Henig

Apr 212 min read

Rancho Gordo!

A couple of weeks ago, Ms. Patricia and I took our 8th grade students to a Lunch-and-Learn series at Davidson College. We had the privilege of meeting and learning from the founder and CEO of Rancho Gordo, Steve Sando. Steve was a delight to listen to. He shared how he got into agriculture simply by wanting fresh tomatoes and how that passion grew into supporting local farmers across Central California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, and Mexico, helping bring back native hei

Sustainability

emily29939

Apr 162 min read

A Day at Fisher Farms

Starting our day with a circle in the shade. We spent the day with Ms. Kathleen at Fisher Farms. We explored the beautiful meadows and forests and saw the creek. Ms. Kathleen named many of the plant life we found. We also found lots of milkweed for Monarch butterflies. Fortunately, several Monarchs were visiting the park today! The milkweed plant is a host to the Monarch; they lay their eggs on the leaves, and the hungry caterpillars love to eat and eat and eat the milkw

jenniferstallings0

Apr 162 min read

Upper Elementary - Literature Connections

In Upper Elementary, we always enjoy reading great stories and learning about our world through literature. We have gone on many journeys this year through these stories. We have laughed and cried along with the characters, learned about different cultures and time periods throughout history all while making connections to the present. Here’s what we’ve been up to…. Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Connections: We read this story as a literature circle with discussio

Upper Elementary

shannon7481

Apr 154 min read

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