by JMS | Mar 30, 2016 | Adventure Day!, Classroom Work
Meet the world’s leading expert on why kids build forts. What he’s learned is both fascinating and inspiring. By Paula Spencer Scott Has your kid ever built a fort out of sofa cushions and blankets? Or made a secret den from branches and bushes? A snow fort? Maybe you...
by claytonba3 | Jun 2, 2015 | Adventure Day!, Classroom Work
Have you ever wondered whose hands drew the first pictures on earth? Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if we didn’t have an alphabet? Each year, children are mesmerized by a story called Communication in Signs, one...
by claytonba3 | May 4, 2015 | Adventure Day!
Photos © 2015 Marc Romanelli The wind died down and the tents went up. The power of dripping water. Our final camping adventure of the school year took students and their families through the majestic Georgia O’Keeffe landscape in Abiquiu, New Mexico, where our...
by claytonba3 | Jun 2, 2014 | Adventure Day!
We journeyed back in time again to the formation of Tent Rocks National Monument. Seven million years ago, a time of very active volcanism, about 20 small volcanoes erupted repeatedly to form sedimentary rock layers. These were then subject to erosion by wind and...
by claytonba3 | Feb 5, 2014 | Adventure Day!
This month we have been on four very different adventures. Our first adventure took us to The Jacobs’ 150 acre property on Glorieta Mesa. It is a beautiful place with ruins from Spanish settlers as well as old Native American ruins that are unexcavated. We...
by claytonba3 | Nov 15, 2013 | Adventure Day!
Today was a perfect combination of academic stimulation and outdoor inspiration! Alex the Paleontologist entertained and informed us in the museum after we cast our dragon skull fossils and raptor claws. Afterward we hiked toward Chimney Rock. It was a summer-like,...
