Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
The second and third graders joined first grade on a nature walk through Lakewood Forest Preserve. Third grade is wrapping up a block focusing on farming stories and multi-digit multiplication. Students learned through stories about how corn is harvested. Second…
Our grade school students went on their second Pantry Walk of the year on Friday. It was a smaller group than usual this week because 2nd, 3rd, and 6th grades were away enjoying a field trip. Each week until Thanksgiving…
Fables and trickster stories pair with place value math lessons in the current second grade block of study. Third graders are exploring the country life as experienced by Walter King with stories about his crops, his father’s farm machinery, and…
Second and third grades traveled to Old World Wisconsin to experience the life of a Norwegian immigrant family that settled in Wisconsin in 1820. The students visited Bob and Leo the sheep. A carding wool lesson was given along with…
The class tamed their dragons with the painting of St. George.
2nd and 3rd graders cleared a garden row to plant spring wheat. In the spring it will be harvested, dried, and then we will grind the grain.
Third grade worked as carpenters with our special guest Chris Kies to build a Sukkot for the harvest feast. The Sukkot Feast celebrates all God provided to the Israelites during their forty years of wandering through the desert. Second graders…
Third grade continued with the story of Moses and his encounter with God as a burning bush.
Second and third grades finished a block in saints and heroes with the story of St. Werburga whose healing hands saved a goose, and saved the nuns’ corn.
