School & Community News
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Food, Friends & Family at the Spanish Café
Tacos, almond cakes, hot and cold drinks, cheese buns, and many more treats were on “sale” Monday afternoon as Maestra Nevin and Class 5-6 transformed the community room into the Spanish Café. Students and parents received tickets as they entered and strolled around the festive plaza, shopping for treats—savory and sweet—trying out the cozy stuffed…
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Pentathlon Send Off
This week, Class 5-6 will travel to the annual Pentathlon gathering where the 5th graders will join 66 other athletes from several participating New England Waldorf schools. Ashwood Movement Teacher Rose Swan put the athletes through their paces on Tuesday as grade school and early childhood students cheered them on in javelin, discus, sprint, long…
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May Fair 2024
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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.