This week, 6/7 mathematicians at Vermont Day School are immersed in the world of accounting and are playing Monopoly in order to simulate a series of financial transactions. After classifying different types of financial transactions into “current/ non-current assets” or “current/non-current liabilities”, they recorded all their Monopoly transactions into one of the four categories. Students did an excellent job at this simulation, and were diligent bookkeepers over the course of the game. Now that they have compiled their transactions, they will put all of the pieces together and create balance sheets using GoogleSheets. This has been an exciting look into the world of accounting and real-world math for our 6/7 class!

As part of an integrated unit on World Cultures and Biomes, the K/1 class is learning about the Yanomami culture of Brazil in Global Studies and the Rainforest habitat in STEM.  Pictured below are K/1 students teaching their schoolmates about the Yanomami culture during our weekly all school assembly.

Vermont Day School was excited to win the “Maker of the Year” award at this year’s Champlain Mini Maker Faire for our innovative “Great Zucchini Race “activity. Visitors to the activity were challenged to create an ergonomic vehicle out of a zucchini, using wheels, axles and other materials, ranging from pipe cleaners to cardboard and feathers to duct tape. The vegetable vehicles then raced down a 10 foot ramp.

During this year’s first all school assembly of the year, students continued our tradition of creating a time capsule for the school year. Each student added “all about me” information, as well as a string to represent their height at the start of the school year. We’ll look forward to finding the time capsule at the end of the school year and seeing our growth (both literally and figuratively!).

Thank you to all our amazing families for attending our Back to School Picnic and sharing such delicious food. A shout out to our Parent Committee as well for helping to organize this fun event. What a great way to kick off the school year!