Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
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.
Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
Category In The Classroom
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…
4th & 5th Grades - Studies of Ancient India
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…
Apple Blossom Garden - Birthday Story
Children in the Apple Blossom Garden playing out the birthday story.
1st Grade - Folk Dancing
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…
4th & 5th Grades - Part Singing
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…
Photos: Weekly Pantry Walk - Grades Service Learning
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…
2nd & 3rd Grades - Stories, Hebrew Script & Math
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…