Last Saturday, Vermont Day School hosted it’s 2nd annual Spring Carnival. It was a resounding success! The afternoon included student-designed Carnival games, tasty bake sale items & home made lemonade, music, photo booth, raffle, dunk tank & more! For many, the opportunity to dunk the faculty and staff was a big highlight! All proceeds from this event go towards the school’s financial aid fund.

A big thank you to our Parent Committee for all their help planning and organizing the Carnival. We would also like to thank our generous sponsors: Gold (Carol Audette Team at Hickok Boardman & Free Press Media), Silver (Antoine Williams and Associates Financial Services, Burnett Scrap Metals, Champlain Lanes, NFP, Stone Creek Construction, Tapia & Huckabay, Vermont Plastic Specialties, Vermont Roads and Fields Excavation) and Bronze (802DJ, Top Hat Entertainment, Barge Canal Market, McKenzie Country Classic, Rise N Shine, The Lighting House, Vermont Federal Credit Union, Mosaic Salon and Vermont Teddy Bear).

As part of an integrated Global Studies & Art unit, the 4/5 class created mixed-media art pieces, along with accompanying quotes, that display their personal beliefs about human and civil rights. The Art Exhibit, titled “Messages of Human Rights” is currently on display at Folino’s Pizza in Shelburne (through the month of May). Be sure to stop by to check it out!

On May 6th, parents and teachers gathered to help green up our school. It was a fun morning of planting flowers, mulching garden beds, raking and assembling a new outdoor shed. A big thank you to all who attended and to our fabulous Parent Committee for organizing this event!

 

As part of our Spring CLIC week, Vermont Day School recently teamed up with Seventh Generation, a mission-focused company that creates sustainable products for families and homes, for an all school project.  To initiate the project, students visited the Seventh Generation headquarters in Burlington, where they toured the facility, learned about the company’s mission, and observed green chemistry experiments in action. On the visit, students also received their challenge from the company’s Marketing Director: to create a line of youth products that are targeted to children and good for the earth. Throughout the week, students worked in small groups to follow the steps of the design process and create their prototypes. On Friday, we returned to Seventh Generation headquarters to present product ideas, which ranged from multi-layered rainbow soap to an eco-friendly kids’ car wash kit. It was a phenomenal week of creativity and innovation. Several of the student designed products are currently on display at the Williston Library.