Harley honey, part two

The eager students in the Food and Farm Lab class worked last week to harvest the honey from our two resident bee hives, with the expert help of Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss. The flats which were full of honey and had been capped off with wax were removed (after...

Harley Honey has us all buzzing…

The Food and Farm Lab students in this first trimester of school have some sweet ideas about farming and about entrepreneurship. In an earlier post, you were introduced to our volunteer bee keepers, Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss, as they taught the 9th grade English students about our Harley bee...

What would you build?

The Design Thinking Lab in the Workshop and Project Space in the Commons is a hotbed of creative ideas, active construction, and constant reflection… The Middle School flex time design thinking students have been working on designing and creating prototypes of “dream spaces” for work and hanging out with Commons...

Green Wall–seventh grade style

If you have ever walked into the Greenhouse in the Commons and thought to yourself, “Hey, this isn’t really that green”, then this post is for you! The seventh grade science classes are working this fall with their teacher, Carli Rivers, and our Commons educator, Ja’Daiza Johnson, to design, prototype,...

The Secret (or not so secret) Life of Bees

Many thanks to Erin Berg, US English teacher, for sharing and writing about this experience, and to Michael Frank, US Digital Media teacher, for taking the photos! “In preparation for our next book in our 9th grade English class, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, we attended a...