21st Century Learning for Pre-K-8 in Shelburne, VT
Thank you to all our hardworking parent, student, sibling and teacher volunteers for greening-up our school! It was a fun and productive morning. The new beds, flowers, shrubs, and compost top all look spectacular and will be enjoyed by our community for a long time to come.
Join our Parent Committee meeting on Tuesday, May 17th at 8:15 am to help plan for our Spring Carnival event. All are welcome! We hope to see you there for coffee and conversation.
Vermont Day School students, parents and teachers will be putting our 1st annual Spring Carnival with games, art activities, face painting, food, music and more- there will be fun for all! We will also have a raffle and Spring Carnival 2016 t-shirts available for sale. All proceeds benefit Vermont Day School’s financial aid fund. Tickets are needed for this event- please contact us (info@vtdayschool.org) for additional information.
Come one, come all! Join the Vermont Day School community on Saturday, May 7th from 10 am-12 pm to help green up our grounds! We will be planting flowers and beds, and building a top for our compost bin.
Click here to read about Vermont Day School’s recent collaboration with Burton Snowboards in the Shelburne News!
Please join us for an Open House on Sunday, May 1st @ 3 pm. This is an opportunity to visit the school, meet our teachers and learn what makes Vermont Day School unique. A STEM activity will be offered for children who wish to participate.
Join us for our next Parent Committee Meeting on Tuesday, May 3rd at 8:15 am. We will be planing for Spring-Up Day and the Spring Carnival. We hope to see you there!
Vermont Day School is growing and adding grades 6th-8th next school year! Join us from 9-10 am on Thursday, May 5th to learn more about our Middle School program. This event is for prospective Middle School parents and students. Pre-registration required. Email Libby Macdonald, Director of Admissions, to RSVP.
As their culminating project on Cities & Towns, the K/1 class took parents and classmates on a “City Tour”. Here, we had the opportunity to visit and learn about the model cities & towns that they designed and built. Each city & town model included both places that are “needs”, as well as “wants.”
For our Spring CLIC week (Create, Learn, Innovate, Celebrate), students worked on a week-long design project with Burton. The challenge was to improve a snowboard prototype from a visual, technical or marketing perspective to make it more appealing to young riders. Students working collaboratively in groups to design a new prototype, which they presented to Burton representatives at the end of the week. Their ideas were very creative, ranging from light-up snowboards to snowboard/ski combinations to snowboards with collectible charms!
As a culmination of their inquiry into Ancient Egypt, students studied a topic of interest and created an exhibition of learning, which included hand-made artifacts, written explanations, and audio clips with QR codes.
As part of their Transportation unit, K/1 students have been learning about force, motion and energy in STEM. Here, they are using race cars and a track to investigate how friction impacts motion.
