School News

We are thrilled to announce initial plans to build an addition on to our current school building. This will allow us to continue to grow intentionally, while staying at our current, beloved location. Our new space will include a suite of new classrooms, a STEM lab, and a multi-use flex space for gatherings, presentations, lunch and music/band. Check back in for updates on our progress!

Thank to our community for all the generous donation to our “Healthy Food and Smiles Drive!’ In total, Vermont Day School collected 722 pounds of food and dental products. The contributions were delivered to the Food Shelf by our 4th/5th grade class, who organized the drive.

Our community celebrated the 3rd annual Gingerbread Festival on Sunday, December 16th. Participants enjoyed the variety of gingerbread themed activities, including the gingerbread house making, life-sized Candyland game and arts and crafts. Congratulations to all the participants and winners who entered in the annual Gingerbread Structure Building contest. Thank you to our parents volunteers for helping to organize this fun and festive event!

Vermont Day School teams participated in a Lego League competition at Norwich University on December 7th. The teams worked throughout the fall to prepare for the challenges in coding and robotics. It was a great learning experience all around!

As part of their investigation into the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizens, the 4/5 class at Vermont Day School created iMovies for students from Vermont Adult Learning. Many of the students are newly resettled in Vermont, traveling from countries in Africa, SE Asia, and the Middle East, and are eager to learn about their new country, and pass a citizenship test. The 4/5s researched through primary and secondary sources, learning stations, and webquests in order to become experts on the subject. Here they are presenting their iMovies to their parents, and teachers from Vermont Adult Learning.

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!

Hello Families, Friends and Community Members! We are thrilled to start the 2018-2019 school year with 53 inquisitive, curious, creative and kind learners in grades K-7, and 13 experienced, passionate and hardworking faculty and staff members on our team. Please check back on occasion for updates about school happenings and events. Hats off to an exciting year of learning and growing ahead!

Students in grades 2-6 had a fantastic outdoor education experience at Hosmer Point in Craftsbury Commons. They had fun swimming, paddleboarding, mountain biking, learning archery, working in the garden and more. Of course, the evening campfire was a big highlight for all!