Our playground has evidence that it’s springtime, and it’s time to get to work! The animals are ready to come out to play… The kids have invented their own catapult… The sandbox is full… …and the “train” needs to be fixed!
Category: Daily Post
Germs are Spreading
We are grateful that on Friday, one of our student’s parents came to talk to the school about germs. She brought with her a model of a cold germ (magnification 1 million+) and discussed how germs live on and in our bodies. Germs also spread when we touch each other. This was simulated with gold […]
Spinach ink
Yesterday, our little artists learned to make their own ink. With Dorte’s guidance, they make ink out of Spinach and then used it on some art!
“I don’t want to…”
Today in circle, our finger-puppet friends told some stories about things that happened to them recently. Our students can tell you how each of these stories ends… Belinda the Hummingbird didn’t want to get dressed. Anthia the Butterfly didn’t want to go to bed. Ricardo the Bat didn’t want to go home.
Lunar New Year
This morning we celebrated the New Year with a Lion Dance, dragons, lanterns and a snack of oranges and dumplings. All of this will to bring us good fortune in this new year, the Year of the Horse.
Birthday Magic
At HMS, we celebrate a child’s day of birth together. The child (here, last week, alongside his older brother) holds onto the Earth, and walks around the sun for each year of his life. His parents show us pictures and tell stories from his first years. After last week’s birthday celebration, our oldest showed us […]
Let there be light
On Friday, we debuted our electrical circuit to the older children. Happily, they found the light…
Fun with Ice
On Tuesday, when we got to the playground, we found that our water basins had a layer of ice on top! So our teachers carried an ice sheet to one of our tree stumps to better view it…
A Good Week
Despite the cold turn at the end, we think we had a pretty good week. You cab be the judge…
Day of the Dead
For our Day of the Dead celebration, those who brought a picture for Day of the Dead told us about it. We really enjoyed hearing stories about everyone’s loved ones, then we put the pictures into the altar we had made. Some of our students are still working on painting their “sugar” skulls. If they […]
Hands On
We noticed some very busy hands to start our fourth week of the school year.