Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
[maxbutton id="22" url="" text="Donate Instantly" ] [maxbutton id="22" url="" text="Donate over 12 installments" ] Update 2/9/2019: Since Giving Tuesday, 11/27/2018 we have raised $31,352 for the Giving Circle. THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed! What is the DVWS Giving…
On Thursday, St. Nicholas and his sidekick, Ruprecht, visited children in preschool through third grade. The children learned the story of St. Nicholas from their teachers prior to his arrival. St. Nicholas of Patara was a third century Bishop of…
Just a reminder that our fourth and fifth graders are leading a food drive for the Wauconda/Island Lake food pantry throughout the school year. The combined class will visit on Mondays starting December 3rd to take our school donations and…
The 6th, 7th & 8th graders visited Adler Planetarium on Friday, December 7th as part of their Astronomy block.
The class has been experimenting with the many different forces and ideas that help us understand mechanics. This week, one of their experiments focused on kinetic energy and momentum. They excitedly built ramps out of classroom materials to demonstrate the…
The fourth and fifth grades visited Shedd Aquarium on Friday!
Wed we celebrated a 5th birthday in Apple Blossom Garden! The children enjoyed popping popcorn and grinding salt for it before the celebration.
In our first math block of the year we learned how to form Roman and Arabic numerals, count forward and backward in sequence, and how math can help us share things evenly. We also began developing a sense of patterning…
Checking on the Bees with Ms. Tuly.
