Expeditions

Kindergartener’s Celebration of Learning

Today, our Kindergartener crews hosted parents and other guests on a tour of the school, and also read aloud their crews’ storybooks about the five senses.

Budding Audobons See the Light

Becky Sherrod knows a thing or two about drawing. As an active artist and a retired art teacher, she has spent her fair share of time with a pencil in her hand.

Kindergartners explore the senses at Children’s Museum

Today, our 50 kindergartners continued their Learning Expedition on the Five Senses at Navy Pier’s Children’s Museum.

Crew 209 makes some pizza.

This afternoon, Crew 209 took their bread-making activities to a whole new level.

Let’s Wing It Bird Studies/ Owl Pellets

Students have been working on drafting and redrafting their studies of different birds found in Jackson Park.

Let’s Wing It Fieldwork and Experts

Students have been doing lots of fieldwork this trimester for their Let’s Wing It expedition.

Kneading Loaves of Fun: Students’ first loaves.

Students each took a job in their first breadmaking.

So, I’m Not the Center of the Universe?

What is the sun? How strong is it? How does the sun impact our human life and the earth? These questions and more prompted a year-long expedition studying the solar system, experimenting with light and heat, and learning about the impact that humans, and nature, have on the environment we live in. [...]

Talkin’ Trash

Where does trash come from and where does it go? What makes trash, trash? These burning questions guided our second and third grade students to seek answers by analyzing the life cycle of trash…