Back-to-School Night Goes Virtual

Join us for a Zoom Back-to-School night on Thursday, 9/24 at 7:00 pm. Teachers will host meetings for individual classes, and will send Zoom links to parents. This is a great opportunity to hear about what goes on in the classroom, put faces to names for fellow parents, and have your questions answered. Meetings will be recorded so you don’t have to miss anything if you have children in more than one class. Hope to see you there!

Pre-K Digs It

Pre-K has a play-based, emergent curriculum. That means when students are excited about digging, Pre-K teachers Kate and Linda build lessons around the sandbox! Kate and Linda have been burying natural treasures like seashells, rocks, and minerals for their students to dig up. When they find a treasure, students carefully dust it off and use books to identify it. Pre-Kers have also been excavating colorful popsicle sticks with their names written on them. They spent a morning finding their own names and identifying friends’ names. This is a fun way to begin to identify letters.

Won’t You Be my Neighbor?

Feats of Engineering

Science teacher Meg has been embedded with Third and Fourth Grades, and they’ve been taking a deep dive into engineering. Students are exploring shapes that engineers utilize to improve the strength of structures. Using a weak material, paper, students created and built tables that were strong enough to hold heavy books.