School News

This year, several of our students who live in Burlington are riding the CCTA bus to Vermont Day School each morning. The bus stops right in front our school and the timing works out perfectly!

To kick off the school year, students at Vermont Day School met for an assembly to decorate this year’s time capsule and add their information to the vessel. They each completed a questionnaire designed to capture their currents interests (i.e. favorite song, book, movie etc.), hopes and dreams. They also measured and recorded their height. It will be exciting to “find” the time capsule at the end of the school year and for the student’s to discover how much they have grown (literally and figuratively!).

 

Woohoo! We are so excited to start the 2016-2017 school year with amazing students, parents, and faculty on board! We are all looking forward to an outstanding year of learning and growing ahead!

 

 

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.”