Every month, a contingent of our students heads to The Admiral at the Lake for an ongoing service project with the residents of the assisted living community there. However, the Admiral was hit hard by the polar vortex this winter, with frozen and burst pipes; unfortunately, they are still recovering as they continue working through…
Earlier this month the students of the middle school packed into two cars and headed west to visit a like-minded high school in the undulating farm country of Iowa – Scattergood Friends School. It was a trip we won’t soon forget. Scattergood is a Quaker boarding school and working farm where students in grades…
Our second Day of Service for this school year was centered on trees and we observed it on Arbor Day, of course! We began the day with Meeting for Community. Afterwards, students in grades K-3 walked over to Senn High School, where some of our students presented poems about trees and the high school students…
Being that it’s poetry month, my Kindergarten-first grade class started reading more poetry over the past two weeks and we have started writing our own poems! The kids are so creative and motivated, it’s a treat to see. We started with acrostic poems. Acrostic poems are very concrete and accessible for students writing at all…
We start every day with Morning Meeting, where kids greet each other, share news, go over the day’s schedule and calendar and settle into the day. A couple weeks ago, I hung up a sign-up sheet for students interested in leading Morning Meeting. I put up nine slots (every Friday for the next nine weeks),…
The students use a history book called Reasoning with Democratic Values. It’s a valuable resource for our class because it engages issues in American history with an open mind regarding what the correct path should have been at different points in history. The legacy of many events in American history are settled. We’re comfortable in…