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...
by Emily Murphy | May 11, 2018
“Look at this!” Blake said, holding up a pine cone and a book. The cone he found looked exactly like the picture he was attempting to point out. “This is a blue spruce tree we’re sitting under!” Until this moment we were calling it the...
by Emily Murphy | Apr 26, 2018
“Why are people so lazy?” Shelton asked, leaning over to pick a piece of trash out of the grass that ran alongside the new bike path. “It really makes me so mad.” Others agreed. “They could just leave it in their car or their pocket – or throw it in the...
