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Alumni Spotlight: Nadejda Stancioff ’06
After Ashwood, I attended Camden Hills Regional High School and graduated with a desire to explore! I spent six months working and saving money and then six months hitchhiking through New Zealand and working on organic farms, before returning for my first year at Mount Holyoke College where I studied psychology and education. After college, I returned to Maine…
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Student Poetry
by Juliet, grade 6 Trees dressed in green silk begin their dance They sway, dance, waltz, and repeat And bow for an audience of plants The plants shake, whistle, bob, and sway, applauding their own ways The trees leaves blush red and thank their audience, Feeling confident for next year. The show ends; they take…
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Michaelmas 2020
The grade school gathered at Camden Hills State Park for our annual Michaelmas pageant and hike. The teachers were particularly pleased to see so many parents and siblings in attendance (while still managing to stay under the governor’s group assembly limit of 100!) The weather was glorious, and Mr. Kaczor and Ms Doshi’s classes put…
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Business Office Manager Betty Wyman Says Farewell
It was in 2009 when my older son Aidan spent a wonderful, enchanted and cozy summer camp at Ashwood. The campus, with its trees, open fields and crisp, rolling brook, captured our imaginations, and since then we have never left. Aidan and my younger son Benjamin have walked the same paths for the last 11…
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Why Cactuses Have Prickles and Other Stories
Students in Ashwood’s oldest class have just completed writing an original pourquoi story, a children’s tale that explains why something is the way it is. Thus, we learn from Class 7-8 why the Lily-of-the-Valley bows her head, why the cactus has prickles, why the rooster crows, why the woodpecker can’t sing, why pebbles are so…
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Hand Washing Song
The teachers at Ashwood have been hard at work creating take home learning plans for our students. We miss you! So we made this video for you. It’s a song you can sing when you wash your hands (over and over!) It’s just the right length (20 seconds or so) if you sing it one…
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Our 2020-2021 First Grade Teacher
Please join us in enthusiastically welcoming Lori Duckstad to Ashwood’s faculty as grade one teacher in 2020-2021. Lori is a trained Waldorf teacher with more than 20 years of experience as a Waldorf class, handwork, and music teacher. In addition to teaching first grade, Lori will also teach handwork to grades one through seven next…
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Class 3-4 Fedco Seed Sale
All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. —Ancient Proverb Class 3-4 is selling vegetable and flower seeds from Fedco to raise money for upcoming field trips and class activities. You may view descriptions of the available seeds and print order forms for conventional seeds and organic seeds. Please return completed forms to the Seed…
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Earlier Start Time for Serve-A-Thon Pizza Night
Pizza Night is growing! The fundraiser now goes from 4:00–9:00 p.m. Join us on Tuesday, January 14 at Flatbread Company, 399 Commercial St, Rockport. Gather your friends, and head on over! Each pizza sale benefits Ashwood, including take-out orders. Call 207-706-4146 to reserve a table or place an order. Check out the menu, and order ahead!
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Alumni Artisan Spotlight: Ella Simon ’13
Coastal Caps was created by Ella Simon (Ashwood ’13) and Grace Kenney, students at Bennington College with a shared passion for art and the environment. Single use plastic bags are one of the most difficult materials to recycle, but Ella and Grace have created a new way to repurpose these bags into the brims of…