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Hi Garden Families,
We had a fun week spending time in the kitchen with Ms. Nina. We learned about various kitchen tools and food prep safety rules. We also have fun getting busy to help prep foods for lunch! If your child doesn’t have a hairnet yet, please make sure to provide one. The students will continue spending time in the kitchen all throughout the school year.
Our second week began with a very special Shadow Party, a celebration of astronomical proportions. Students and their families joined The Garden School staff in the playground for solar eclipse activities and delicious eclipse cookies. Using special solar viewing glasses, we went to the upper viewing field to watch the moon as it passed across the sun. We were delighted with the unique shadows of tree leaves that appeared on the ground during the eclipse.
Later in the week, we played in the creek and in the sandbox, chopped up vegetables to make our own vegetable soup, and got a closeup look at some cicadas. We listened to a great story of a boy and his parents who, with the help of the garden animals, pulled a ginormous turnip out of the ground.
Wow! Our first week of welcoming our preschoolers & Kindergarteners to the Garden School Family. During indoor time we sang finger play songs with our ten fingers, played teacher directed games as we adjusted to our first emotions & experiences of our time in school and without our primary caretakers. We ate snacks together as a class; you may have heard them mention sauteed peas and steamed rice (yum!) . We also familiarised ourselves with outdoor rhythm as we played in the creek, had storytime about an old woman & her daughters by the pond, and discovered an inchworm, a five-lined skink, and a mama wolf spider. The students, new and old, are quickly coming together as a class and a community!
Hi Garden Families,
The Grades Class had a terrific first week at The Garden School! We have a wonderful group of students and Ms. Kathee and I are excited for this school year!!
This week, we played name games and other fun games during morning circle as we got to see our old friends and get to know our new friends. We enjoyed working in the garden and playing games with Mr. Lee, Handwork with Ms. Lindsey, the upper grade students had math class with Ms. Roxanne and we spent time exploring and splashing in the creek.
During our first block we enjoyed our story and form drawing, music class with Ms. Kathee, and playing math games together!
We will continue with more of the same work and play next week. We will also begin Spanish class! :)
"Work while you work
And play while you play.
This is the way
To be happy each day. "
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa and Ms. Kathee
Dear Garden Families,
The children enjoyed practicing and then preforming at the Mother’s Day Tea this past week. They put in a lot of hours into practice, crafting and preparing snacks for all to enjoy and had a fun time doing it! We also had fun playing math games with Ms. Roxanne and in class, and all especially enjoyed boat making from natural materials with Mr. Lee.
As we wrap up our last week at school, we will enjoy our last visits to the creek, our times with our various expansion teachers, and being with each other! 😊
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
It was a busy week for the Garden School. Kindergarten celebrated two summer birthdays, Carden and Nico. Plus, we were able to spend more time with our school goats! The grades put on an excellent play for Mother's Day on Friday, as well as a nice tea and snack party for all of the moms! Glad to see summer come but hate to see all the faces leave us. We wrap up school after next week.....summer is here!
Dear Garden Families,
We had a great week together! The children are enjoying practicing for the Mother's Day play. They are learning their parts and learning how to move their puppets. They also have been spending time crafting and cooking as they make gifts to give. We had a fun last week in Japanese, which wraps up our foreign language experiences for this school year. Games class was changed (due to the wet weather) to a fun fact-filled nature walk with Mr. Lee. The children created drawings and writings all about our discoveries.
Next week will bring us to more crafting and play practice. We hope to see you at the Mother's Day Tea on Friday morning!
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
May 2017: The Garden School was just awarded Cobb County Green School Silver Medal Award for its work in creating an innovative environmental program for its students.
With only 10 school days left we still manage to fulfill our adventures. We have two new goats added to our beautiful school, and with time they will help our school grow even more. From mudpies to homemade bandages...we continue to embrace the beautiful weather. Until next time!
School is getting busier as we start wrapping up our year. This past week we enjoyed celebrating Noah's 6th birthday. Wet play is still among us as we approach Summer in full swing!! Until next time!
Miss Angela with Grades 4,3,2,1...
GARDENing Monday and Wednesday 9:10-10:00.
Creek/Nature Study 10:30-11:00
Japanese 11:15-12:00
Games Monday and Thursday 1:00-1:30
Watercolors Tuesday 2:00-2:45
Character-building Read-Aloud
Please continue motivating your 3rd/4th grade child to practice on weekdays, especially through the summer..... 30 minutes of reading with a written one sentence response to the reading selection. Break in between..... Also, 30 minutes of mental math practice and on paper one problem and solution of 2 digit +,-,x,/. Refer to distribution method examples below. 🍯Angela
Dear Garden Families,
We have had a busy week! We have been studying and drawing native plants as well as writing summaries and narratives based on Native American stories we have been reading. Gardening has been productive as we moved a lot of mulch to try and combat the ever-present kudzu. We ended the week, saying good-bye to Ms. Angela, with an adventurous creek walk!
This coming week the upper grades children will practice mathematics with Ms. Roxanne while the lower grades garden with Mr. Michael. All children will continue with our nature studies and practice for our Mother’s Day tea puppet play, make crafts and enjoy the rest of our days together for class.
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
Dear Garden Families,
Here is my note of appreciation for a wonderful 2016 summer camp and school year. As of May 1, the Grades students will combine into one class led by Ms. Melissa. Instead of The Garden School of Marietta, I will join DeKalb County Parks implementing the wealth of instructional approaches I have gained while teaching at The Garden School...Waldorf and Forest School. Thanks for sharing your family with me and entrusting your children to me.
With appreciation,
Angela Sauvé
Here are some grades 4,3,(2,1) highlights with Ms. Angela.
Picnic Lunch everyday!
Math practice while learning about the snapping turtle.
Picnic Lunch Everyday!
Preparing new garden beds.
Reading about animals and creating calculations while enjoying the shelter classroom
Reading about animals and creating calculations while enjoying the shelter classroom
Reading about animals and creating calculations while enjoying the shelter classroom
Reading about animals and creating calculations while enjoying the shelter classroom
Reading about animals and creating calculations while enjoying the shelter classroom
We had a great week this week in KDG. With only a few weeks left our school remains to stay busy with new visiting guest like Devon. Plus we had a busy week celebrating Elainas and Samanthas birthdays. As school begins to wrap up...I wonder what KDG will bring before the school year is over. Until next week!!
Click here to read Ms. Angela's goodbye message.
Hi Garden Families,
We had a busy week at school! We read the stories The Four Winds, The Length of Winter and Kluskap Finds the Summer and copied or wrote summaries independently based on each story as well as drawing pictures and making yarn flowers. We have been reading about insects and have learned some fascinating facts about dragonflies! The creek holds its usual enchantments for the children as well. :)
Starting this week we will have Gardening class Mondays and Wednesdays starting at 9:10AM through the end of the school year. Please be sure your child has used the bathroom when he/she arrives and brings water shoes, snack and a full water bottle to the playground in the morning.
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
Click here to read Ms. Angela's goodbye message.
Hi Garden Families,
The children enjoyed coming back after spring break and getting back into the fun of outside play! Please make certain your child has appropriate footwear for the creek. An extra pair of socks and shoes is also very helpful for most students. We are also getting wet once again, so extra clothes and a bag for wet clothes is needed.
We are enjoying Native American stories that give us opportunity to learn more about the natural world around us. It was also a lot of fun, and very interesting, learning more about each other’s names and our families.
I hope you all had a chance to enjoy our Springtide festivities this past Saturday!
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
P.S. The “critter” in the bucket in the photo is an American Eel that lives in our creek! 😊
We were happy this week to be back playing together after spring break. We saw and explored lots of things; a salamander, beaver sticks, snail trails, river oysters, caterpillars, and sniffed the wild roses and jasmine. We also crossed the creek bridge!
Angela's class is enjoying the spring weather. We continue to practice reading, writing, and calculations with fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Hi Garden Families,
It was a beautiful spring week at The Garden School! We enjoyed a lot of outside time at the creek. The children are ready to dive back into full-on creek play (literally), so please be sure your child comes with extra clothes, shoes and a bag to keep wet gear contained in backpacks. You may choose to send your child to school with bug spray if desired as we will be spending most our day outside in our forest classroom following break. 😊
This past week we finished our math block with the red gnome named Divide. The children quickly picked up on the concept of dividing amounts into equal groups and we drew many connections between division and the other three mathematical operations we have studied.
The children had lots of fun during pentatonic flute classes this week with Mr. Ben. He had them jumping and moving to the notes, told funny stories, and had the children enjoying their daily lessons. In Handwork, they are continue knitting projects with good success. Our garden is taking off and the chicken coop is nearing completion. The children have had lots of fun practicing yoga with Ms. Nina on Wednesdays as well.
When we return to school following break, we will dive into our last Language block combined with Nature Studies while sharing Native American legends.
Have a lovely and safe break!
Warmly,
Ms. Melissa
