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Welcome back from spring break
Welcome back Lower School friends and families after what we hope was a happy and healthy spring break. Whether your family was traveling, staying home for rest and relaxation, or a little bit of both, we hope you found the two weeks off restful and rejuvenating. Our...
Early Childhood
(Preschool 3 / Preschool 4 / Kindergarten)
Bookmaking in Early Childhood
Submitted by the Early Childhood Faculty In our kindergarten, it is routine for teachers to pull up a chair alongside children to confer about a piece of their writing. Two years earlier, those same children may have pulled up a chair alongside a teacher who is...
Preschool Update
Early childhood experts Dr. Allison Gopnik and Erika Chistakis, drawing upon decades of cognitive science, urge us to view young children as powerful learning machines. Preschoolers learn, they say, by making meaning of all they encounter in the world around them. In...
Peeking into Kindergarten
Have you ever heard the saying, “Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten”? The kindergarten teachers, Mr. Coyne, Mrs. Fiore, Ms. DeCos and Ms. Augustus, like to think it is more factual than just a saying, even though it puts some added pressure on us to...
Grades 1, 2, & 3
2nd Graders Connecting With The Community
Submitted by Marina Byrne and Jennifer Koteles The second graders have been learning about their community in social studies. We talked about urban, suburban and rural communities and most recently explored the suburban and urban parts of the Englewood community. We...
We Are Making A Difference!
Submitted by Ms. Kanter and Ms. Sussman It’s been four years since the start of Third Graders Making a Difference, our curriculum for giving back, and the program continues to grow and flourish. Students enthusiastically participate in each project while growing a...
First Grade Houses and Homes
Submitted by Madison Farrar, Rachel Brainin, and Dorothy-Ann Muus The first grade recently celebrated their Houses and Homes projects with an exciting and informative assembly that showcased the models they constructed. It was the culmination of their Social Studies...
Grades 4 & 5
Friendships and Fun at Frost Valley: Submitted by Jessica Pomeroy
Students in the fifth grade visited Frost Valley YMCA in Claryville, NY on September 20. The cloudy and drizzly weather did not put a damper on the trip at all! The students were engaged throughout their...
Sailing on the Clearwater Sloop
Contributed by Beth Lemire, LS Science Teacher On Thursday September 20, the fourth-grade classes took a trip on the Clearwater Sloop. The sloop is a replica of the 19th century sloops that once sailed the Hudson. Singer/songwriter/environmentalist Pete Seeger...
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