School & Community News
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Those Beautiful Mugs!
by Elizabeth Doshi, Class 1, 2, 3 teacher Each student in grades 1, 2 and 3 now has a whimsical and functional mug to drink water from at school. The class hand built the ceramic mugs over many days and with great care and creativity. They recently received their mugs from the final glazing. Thank…
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Watercolor Paintings in Grade 1-3
Let the sunshine and flowers in these Grade 1-3 watercolor paintings brighten your November day!
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Exploration, Inquiry, and Joy
Enthusiasm and excitement fill the day: apples and leaves falling from our trees, finding the homes of small creatures underneath the stumps and rocks, spiders making their webs, water in the stream, snow on the ground, and ice in the puddles! Each day holds a new wonder for the children. Every moment, whether in our…
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Alumni Spotlight: Two UMainers from Class of ’16 Report from the Field
Kate Kemper ’16 “This year has been strange; however, my college plans have proceeded on a surprisingly normal schedule. I am attending the University of Maine (at Orono) in the honors college, planning on studying physics, and continuing to learn French, as I started to do at Ashwood and continued through high school. I plan on…
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Pumpkin Carving Pictures
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Pumpkin Walk Pictures
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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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Nadejda Stancioff ’06
After Ashwood, I attended CHRHS and graduated with a desire to explore! I spent six months working and saving money and then six months hitch-hiking 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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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…