Author: Laura Purdom

Several Ashwood upper grades students recently submitted original poems to the Rockland Public Library’s “Anything Goes” Poetry Contest in celebration of National Poetry Month 2021. We’re proud to announce that, of the three finalists selected in the under 13 category, all three are from Ashwood! While the finalists’ poems can be found on the library’s…

As part of their Waterways/Ways of Water block, Class 1-3 made tiny canoes out of beeswax. Today, they sent them off for their first voyage on the stream. They really float! Science in action.

The snow is gone, and the plow stakes are no longer needed. It was the perfect opportunity for Class 4-8 to do a little campus clean up while trying out their recent lessons on tangents by building a model of Leonardo d Vinci’s fastenerless bridge.

Can’t you just hear the great waves crashing and sighing? And do these paintings remind you of something? See below.

For me, school days at Ashwood have been a sweet refuge from all of the disruptions of the past year. Nowhere has this more evident than in art class each week, when the upper grades students settle in and begin working on their mandalas. A hush quickly settles over the room. Gradually, as the students…

Please note: The camps listed below are our confirmed camps to date; however, we are hoping to add a camp for children ages 5–6 and grades 1–2. Download a registration form here. Field & Forest Camp for 3 and 4 year-olds; August 9-13, 9:00–noon. We will explore the fields, stream, and woods around Ashwood’s early…