21st Century Learning for Pre-K-8 in Shelburne, VT
Campers at Vermont Day School enjoyed 2 weeks of fun and learning with friends! Highlights included an egg drop challenge, writing and illustrating a camp book, playing in the sprinklers, lots of new tag games and exploration and swimming at the Shelburne Beach. Thank you to Erin Fuchs, Camp Director, and to all our wonderful campers for their participation, enthusiasm and sense of adventure!
Vermont Day School students and teachers enjoyed a fun-filled last week of school to mark the end of the school year! Some of the activities included: Field Day, Egg Drop Challenge, and a field trip to the Shelburne Beach for a picnic and games. Each day, students wore different clothing to show their school spirit (see photo of duct clothing below). It has been a fantastic year of learning and growing at Vermont Day School!
Congratulations to all our amazing performers on a fabulous cabaret night. Your songs were magical and stage strong presence was impressive. Well done! Below are a few photos from the dress rehearsal at the Shelburne Town Hall.
As part of their global studies unit on the world and global citizenship, the K/1 class made panda magnets and paperweights to sell at the Spring Carnival. They also made bookmarks to explain why pandas are endangered and what we can do to help. They are hoping to raise funds to adopt a panda though the World Wildlife Fund.
Vermont Day School’s 1st annual Spring Carnival was a huge success! Thank you to our families and teachers for making fun and creative booths and games for all to enjoy. A shout out to our Parent Committee for organizing the event, to the many local businesses for donating raffle items and to our Gold and Silver sponsors: Tapia & Huckabay, Dunkiel Saunders, Burton Snowboards, NFP Select Design, Stride Creative, Healthy Living, Vermont Roads and Fields, Smugglers Notch, and Vermont Federal Credit Union. The Carnival raised funds for our Financial Aid program and will help make Vermont Day School education more accessible to students in our community!
As part of their Astronomy unit, STEM students welcomed a guest presenter from the Vermont Astronomical Society, Jack St. Louis, last week. Students had the opportunity to launch rockets and view the sun’s surface features through a specially designed telescope.
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.
Click here to read about Vermont Day School’s recent collaboration with Burton Snowboards in the Shelburne News!
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.
