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…
The 4th and 5th grades enjoyed a special visit from the mom and grandma of one of our fifth graders. The fifth grade class is currently in their Ancient India block and have tried their hands at drawing rangoli(Hindi) or…
Children in the Apple Blossom Garden playing out the birthday story.
First grade enjoyed folk dancing with the teaching duo Jutta Distler and Terran Doehrer (Jutta & the Hi-Dukes). Physical coordination is enhanced by the coordinated, structured, and rhythmic movements of dance and awareness of music is developed as students learn…
Fourth and fifth grade have gracefully leaped into the world of part singing! This is a step past singing in a round, where we all sing the same song but enter the song at different times. In part singing, each…
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…
Dyeing silks in early childhood classrooms using birch leaves for natural color.
The 6th grade ventured to Old World Wisconsin on Friday to take part in a history quest. It was an exciting experience in which they had to explore a village from the 1800s and find information about a historical person.…
