Inspiring Life-long Learning for Over 25 Years
This week concluded fifth grade's first block of the year—Botany! It was an exciting week filled with new ideas and some beautiful drawings. Through our explorations, we have discovered how intricate the world of plants is. Our block culminated in…
Fourth graders are beginning to take strings lessons in earnest this year.
This week we learned the ancient Romans were not the first people to create stone arches. However, they harnessed their potential more than ever before, arranging them at intervals that allowed them to create massive structures such as the Colosseum…
Last week, during our first sculpture class, the 7th and 8th graders were asked to gather materials from nature and assemble them into a fully three-dimensional sculpture. This week we worked with the idea of relief sculpture. Initially the students…
Part of form drawing is to have students move the form before they bring it to their desks. Here students walked the spiral to the verse Curly House of Snail. After working in movement and other senses, students practice the…
The beautiful chalkboard drawing that greeted the fourth graders for their first day of school!
Fifth Grade harvested Indigo leaves in order to prepare dye vats to color wool. The school has a dye garden next to the greenhouse where specific plants are grown to produce natural pigments for dyeing. Third grade students are preparing…
The beautiful, seasonal nature table in Apple Blossom Garden.
