by Emily Murphy | Aug 2, 2018
The school year has ended on an upswing at Pagosa Peak Open School, with drama camp, song writing, hikes, cooking, gardening and water play. The fourth- and fifth-graders worked together during the three weeks of the June session to write their own songs, which they...
by Emily Murphy | Jul 11, 2018
Gardens, spiralizers, hikes, bugs, games, art and music filled our summer afternoons this June. Our typically mixed-age groups became even more mixed-age as children abandoned their homerooms and sorted themselves into four groups: Columbine, Pagosa Skyrocket,...
by Emily Murphy | May 28, 2018
During the past two weeks, students have worked with Mrs. Bruno on building garden boxes, shoveling dirt and planting…
by Emily Murphy | May 24, 2018
After noticing the disappearance of the kindergarten Roxaboxen area, Ms. Polly made a plan. “How do you feel about my group working to fix this space up?” she suggested. She had a group of first and second-graders looking for a project. The kindergarten...
by Emily Murphy | May 21, 2018
“I think we should try shame. Shame, shame shame on you! We can make them feel bad and then maybe people won’t litter,” Bella said. “I prefer to call it ‘educational guilt-tripping’,” Carlo said. “We could say, ‘If...
