“… it occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook…”
“I kept my lofty perch for hours, frequently closing my eyes to enjoy the music by itself, or to feast quietly on the delicious fragrance that was streaming past.”
~ John Muir
Conserve School students share their experience reading John Muir’s “A Wind-Storm in the Forests” from the lower branches of a majestic pine tree. A classroom that is as engaging as the material being taught.
Our school planted a native Texas oak tree on school campus on October 4th 2013 and registered it on ForestNation website. The tree was dedicated to Ms Kristi Winegarden, a science teacher who, a couple of years ago, started our sustainability committee’s work and long-term objectives toward recycling, reusing and reducing. She is now teaching […]
The Chinese (Mandarin) students at Sandy Spring Friends School employ a combination of traditional and progressive methods to master the Chinese language. Teacher Kexin Zhang believes that there are powerful technological tools to be taken advantage of in the modern era, but there is no replacement for human-to-human interaction in learning a new language. In […]
Inspired by the story of Caine’s Arcade (see video on YouTube), our upper school students joined forces with businesses in the community to launch a “Day of Play” for our lower schoolers and other elementary aged children in the community. While the event was designed to appeal to lower schoolers, upper schoolers found leadership opportunities […]
