October was full of discovery at GAP. Across every flock, learners dug into our school wide big idea: It Takes a Village. We spent time exploring how plants, soil, forests and people all depend on one another. Many of those threads came together at Community Day, where families got to share in the learning. Here's a look at what each flock has been up to. Orange Monarchs (K–1) with Emily Kindergarten ELA In ELA, kindergarteners have been working on letter formation, writing i

Walk onto our 35 acres on any given morning and you might find a group of kindergartners crouched over a log, a pair of sixth graders debating about how to measure a creek, or a nine-year-old sitting perfectly still at her Sit Spot, waiting for a chickadee to come back. It can look like a lot of different things happening at once. Underneath it all are six values that guide nearly everything we do at Green Adventure Project School. Our values are creativity, nature connection

There's something magical about watching children proudly share something they've worked hard to create. This past weekend, we welcomed families into our outdoor classrooms for our first Community Event of the year. There were projects to explore, challenges to try, discoveries to share, and a lot of very proud kids. It was wonderful. Our first quarter's Big Idea was It Takes a Village, and we spent the first quarter exploring what it means to be part of a community. We built

Orange Monarchs with Emily September was a month full of fun, friendship, curiosity, and learning! In math, we have been mainly focusing on place value and number formation. When we write numbers, we discuss the way they are formed. Are they made of curved lines? Are they made of straight lines? Are they made of both? Rhymes help us remember their formation! For example: "around the tree, around the tree, that's how we write the number three!" and "the bee goes down and

Recently, we shared a little about the intentionality behind professional development at GAP. Before learners ever arrived, our educators spent time together thinking, playing, problem-solving, asking questions, wrestling with ideas, and building relationships. We don’t expect a group of adults to walk into a room and instantly become a strong team simply because they all work at the same school. Turns out, we don’t expect that of kids either. It can be tempting, especially a

Orange Monarchs with Emily The first few weeks of school have been magical and transformative as we've bonded and built our class community! As a flock, we exercised collaboration as we generated flock name ideas. After voting for the Orange Monarchs, we practiced creativity and came up with a cheer to show our pride! Here we learned and reviewed the lifecycle of a butterfly and incorporated it into our song. While transitioning back to school, we have been building our u