This week we took a field trip to Walkway over the Hudson. We observed the river and it’s surroundings and hypothesized on what/who migrates. We decided that fish, like Sea Bass, and Blue Crabs definitely do! Among the birds…
These past weeks we have been quite busy with science apple activities, class trips, math and letter/phonics activities. We have lots of photos from this past week. Enjoy!Science: We talked about what we know about apples, how they taste, what…
ASA: In the all school assembly, we split up into two different groups and played games to learn about each other. One of the games was ‘this or that’. It is a game where you pick a side like vanilla…
The 1-2 class LOVES when reading rolls around in our daily schedule! Not only do our readers love listening to read aloud stories, they also love having their own independent reading time, cozying up with lots of books in their…
We had an amazing day this past Friday meeting up with the CIA students at the Home of FDR and harvesting vegetables together, coming back to CDS and cooking together! The students prepared several herbs to cook with, made…
This week in social studies the 3/4s we discussed the meaning of the words ingenuity and inventiveness as they relate to human evolution. We learned that chimpanzees, Neanderthals and homo sapiens all had/have this attribute in their use of tools. …
There are few schools that make time to reflect on what we do – teach. We are very happy to be at a school where we intentionally make time for this.
An example of this was last Wednesday’s lower school…
This week we have been discussing the life cycles of trees, reading and sounding out cvc words, experimenting with rough and smooth objects in math and having lots of fun socializing, playing and exploring nature during outdoor time.
Science: Through…
It has been a wonder-filled 3rd and 4th grade week. We have been collecting woolly bear caterpillars from the playground, and we will be keeping them as a class pet in the upcoming week. We built a stadium for them…
The 5/6 wrote this post themselves. They had a great week! Please scroll through the photo gallery below.
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We wrote to another adult that we feel comfortable going to. It also doubled as a way to help us practice…
