Category: News
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Cross-country skiing at Ashwood
Whenever the weather allows, Movement teacher Rose Swan suits up with the students and takes the them out on the trails. The weather has been very cooperative lately!
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The Chemistry of Food
Students in Class 7-8 have embarked on an Organic Chemistry block and are discovering how sweet science can be. This week we looked at sugars—how they are used in the home and in our bodies. We built a sucrose molecule with M&Ms. We made peanut brittle, exploring what happens to sucrose when it’s heated, and…
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Winter Revels 2024
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All Hallows’ Eve Walk 2024
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The Things Nursery Children Say
by Elizabeth Roosevelt, Early Childhood Administrator and Lead Nursery Teacher The rhythm of our day in the nursery class allows teachers many opportunities to slow down. We are able to observe and bring intentionality to everything we do in the classroom, especially our interactions with the children. Within the age span we have in the…
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One-potato, two potato at Erickson Fields Preserve
Class 3-4 visits Erickson Fields Preserve to help harvest the potato and carrot crops. And then there were carrots!
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Michaelmas Pageant 2024
Will the the melancholy Moz and his merry friend Melody escape the mangy maws of the sea monster? Will courage prevail? Yes! (If only Moz can get his homework done.) A cast of enthusiastic 5th through 8th graders mounted a festive pageant for the Michaelmas season before an appreciative audience of 60-some grand friends and…
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Volunteering at the Common Ground Fair
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Bubbleology
Class 7-8 has been exploring the Platonic Solids. This week, they built these five unique polyhedra using paper straws and pipe cleaners. Then—why not—we dipped them in soapy water and… magic!
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Dying with Indigo
Students in Class 1-2 worked joyfully with Ms. Swan to dye yarn using indigo from Ms. Swan’s home garden. As their busy hands worked, the burst forth in song. Scroll down for photos as well.