by Kim Franco | May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shown: 1st graders playing “Hungry, Hungry Hippo”. “Fall Down Seven and Get Up Eight” is a Japanese proverb my judo sensei would remind the class about when faced with adversity and challenges, inspiring us to find our inner strength and power to persevere...
by Julie Pugkhem | May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
There is so much magic to behold each spring on the D-E campus. Our outdoor spaces provide children with plentiful opportunities to use their senses to take in and learn about nature. Outside of classroom windows, the children tune in to the sounds of chirping...
by Mary Heveran and Lisa Dove | May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s 5 minutes to places, and the 5th graders are assembled in a circle, nervous but excited. Soon their teachers will be leaving them to sit in the audience, leaving them responsible for every aspect of their performance. “What do you need to remember to be...
by Yi Li, Science Teacher | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the goals of Lower School science classes is to introduce the beauty and mystery of every aspect of different science disciplines to students and support them in seeing connections between those disciplines, including chemistry, physics, biology, earth science,...
by Janet Garcia-Levitas, Spanish Teacher | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Señora García-Levitas’s Preschool and Kindergarten classes, students are learning how to identify different farm animals and contrasting the sounds that animals make in English and in Spanish. They are learning that while a duck, or pato, may say “quack quack” in...
by Holly Goldberg, Librarian | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! This March was the beloved Dr. Seuss’s birthday. To celebrate, students in the library listened to various books written by Dr. Seuss. Students were enthralled with the rhyme and imagination. After hearing the books (and sometimes chanting...
by Lower School Administration | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are excited to announce our new member of the faculty, Samantha Aldarondo, who will be joining us as a Recess Coach! Samantha will work primarily with Kindergarten and Grade 1 during lunch, recess, and some class times. Samantha studied education at Manhattanville...
by Jess Massei, Math Specialist | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you spend a day visiting the math classes in Lower School, you will see a variety of rich learning experiences and engagement. While you will, no doubt, notice differences from classroom to classroom, you will also notice common threads carefully woven throughout...
by Catherine Augustine, STEM Teacher | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Fourth-grade students joined the Tiny House Nation by creating their own unique homes. Students defined the problem and began researching the different designs, costs, and features of a tiny house. They drew up blueprints that included specified criteria for success;...
by Cecil Jones, Art Teacher | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kindergarten through Fifth grade has been exploring various kinds of two and three-dimensional art-making this year. In Kindergarten, new characters have come to life through the students’ masks and puppets. The First Graders have been practicing paper sculpture and...
