Organizing our lower school curriculum around a central theme

 for each classroom allows students to draw rich connections within and between subject areas. Think graduate-level social science—complete with investigations, hypothesizing, writing, and story collecting—only with more field trips. Ranging from counting baby goats and predicting how much the garden will yield in the early years study of farm life to the in-depth studies about change makers and the activist movements they inspired in the later grades, our lower school students become creative, sophisticated thinkers.