School & Community News
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Class 5-6 Trip to Crocketts Beach
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2023 Graduation
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Early Childhood Bridge Crossing
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Class 7-8 Mandarin Class Calligraphy
This year’s students are the first to experience Mandarin as a foreign language class at Ashwood. This subject is a pilot program for us, and so far students are loving the language as well as the artistic work involved.
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Class 7-8 Sistine Chapel Exercise
To complement their studies of the Italian Renaissance, Class 7-8 is getting a feel for what it was like for Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Their assignment: to draw a detail of “God Creating Adam” on a piece of paper taped to the bottom of their desks. Giggles included.
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Class 7-8 Fan Filter Boxes
Class 7-8 participated in a very local community service project this week—building new filter boxes for the fans that help keep Ashwood’s indoor air cleaner.
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Class 3-4 Agricultural Arts
Class 3-4 visited Erickson Fields Preserve for their Agricultural Arts class with Ms. Swan. They harvested 400 pounds of potatoes and pulled in all of the rest of the green and occasional red peppers.
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Class 3-4 Field Trip to Mook Sea Farm
Class 3 – 4’s first block of the year was Maine geography, history, and industries. Lessons were enriched with field trips to explore and view Maine geography, discover Maine’s rich history, and witness some of Maine’s major industries in action!
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Class 7-8 Platonic Solids
Class 7-8 made bubble wands out of wire or wood in the shape of three of the Platonic solids: cube, tetrahedron, and octahedron. We found that each of the shapes, when dipped in bubble solution, formed a tiny double version of itself.
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Picnic Tables
Over the course of the spring, class 3, 4, 5, measured lengths and angles, cut boards, fastened, and weather-proofed two early childhood-sized picnic tables. Each student had a chance to learn and practice each skill and could measure, cut, hammer and drive screws with confidence. It was great to have such a purposeful project and…