Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
Sunflower Garden - Raking Leaves
What a fall week we had! Raking leavings, jumping in the piles and even hiding in them! Can you guess who is under the leaves?
Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
Category In The Classroom
6th Grade - Constructive Destruction
During Farm & Garden this week, the 6th graders put their energy into tearing down our old compost area in order to make room for the new 3-tier compost system that we will soon build. They had a lot of…
4th & 5th Grades - Final Harvest
The 4th & 5th graders helped with the last of the harvest this week, picking eggplants, radishes & carrots. In case you're wondering, our Asian eggplants are supposed to be green and they tend to grow smaller at the end…
4th & 5th Grades - Planting an Apple Tree
One of our apple trees was mysteriously destroyed, so our 4th & 5th graders replaced it during their Farm & Garden classes this week.
Wonder Garden - Wonder Gardening
Wonder garden helping with final harvest and getting the inside garden ready.
6th, 7th & 8th Grades - Mandarin
The 6th, 7th & 8th grades wrote their own story in Mandarin Chinese, practiced reading it, and then played a game with sentence strips, putting the parts of their story in order.
Apple Blossom Garden - Carrots
We picked carrots from the garden and washed them in the fresh frost to be used in our first pot of soup for snack.
1st Grade - Nature Walk @ Lakewood Forest Preserve
This week we invited the second and third graders to join us on our hike and in return they showed us all they great places they played last year. Fun was shared by all!
2nd & 3rd Grades - Fables, Farming & More
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…