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Jane’s Classroom: Tweets from the Class

Tweets from Jane’s Class Recently we had just finished a major writing project–final drafts of personal narratives–and needed a shorter project for writing workshop.  Since writing short, powerful pieces is as important a skill as writing longer pieces, we began to work on tweets.  How much can you say in 140 characters?  We read tweets [...]

Five Touchstone Students Earn Girl Scout Silver Award—Highest Cadette Scouting Award

Congratulations to our OSP students, Kelly, Amanda, Lydia, Sarah, and Emma, all members of Girl Scout Troop 30398, who recently earned the Girl Scout Silver Award. The Sliver Award is the highest award in Cadette Girl Scouting. The girls, under the direction of troop leaders Sharon Borg and Lisa Walden, spearheaded a community service project [...]

A View from the Top: The OSP Fall Hiking Trip

When opportunity knocks on my door, I sometimes don’t know enough to answer. This time the chance I was waiting for was up for grabs — to go on an Older Student Program (OSP) 3-day backpacking trip in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, one of the most rugged landscapes in the nation. I was happy to [...]

What’s Up in the Garden? 86 Potatoes!

Ginny’s class dug two of the three square foot beds of potatoes last Wednesday afternoon. By Friday Ginny reported: “The potatoes were scrubbed during choice time with great vigor! They were all grouped and organized at math time and counted in groups of fives. There are 86 potatoes! We worked on a poem today and [...]

Learning to Listen to Each Other

 At this time of year, two weeks into the start of school, every teacher is watching what works and what doesn’t work for which kids, constantly modifying what we’re doing with individuals and groups and the full class, with a particular intensity that all of us recognize as September.   Nothing else feels more important [...]

What’s Up in the Garden This Year? Seeds Everywhere!

This past Monday afternoon Julie and her 8, 9 and 10 year old students went outside with their garden helper, Jeanne Cahill, to take a look around the gardens in the school parking lot. Jeanne’s first question to the class was, “What do you notice plants doing now that summer is over and fall has [...]

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