Author: Laura Purdom
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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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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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Ashwood Student Handcrafts for Sale at Common Ground Country Fair Youth Enterprise Zone
Ashwood’s upper grades students are learning about entrepreneurship by offering handmade products as a cooperative makers group, now through January 8. With the help of their teachers, they are designing and creating a variety of high-quality handwork items. Materials include natural fibers, gathered wood, watercolor paints on paper, cotton embroidery floss, and more. The students collaboratively…
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Early Childhood News: Parents Enjoy a Rare In-person Gathering; Children’s Mornings Filled with Play
Marianne Bockli, Early Childhood Teacher On a still warm September evening, early enough for daylight, one parent for each early childhood student, joined in an in-person parent evening. We sat outside under the canopy with some distance between each chair and shared children’s names, their places of birth, and why we are all here at…
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Getting to Know You
In upper grades language arts, students are kicking off their studies with a get-to-know-you exercise. Each student will interview one other student and then write a profile of that student. Lots of good skill work here: listening, speaking, note taking, organizing a narrative, and it’s a chance to get to know the new students and…