• It's in-service week. So much to do. So, so hot. Then friendly Old Orchard Service League parents show up, spread a little love ... and suddenly it feels a few degrees cooler, everything a bit more manageable. Just what we needed, guys, thanks! #smallschoolbigeducation #togetherwecan
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    It's in-service week. So much to do. So, so hot. Then friendly Old Orchard Service League parents show up, spread a little love ... and suddenly it feels a few degrees cooler, everything a bit more manageable. Just what we needed, guys, thanks! #smallschoolbigeducation #togetherwecan
  • A Class of 2020 sampler. It’s not over yet, but we miss ya already. Anyone up for 8th Grade, Part 2? 🙃#smallschoolbigeducation
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    A Class of 2020 sampler. It’s not over yet, but we miss ya already. Anyone up for 8th Grade, Part 2? 🙃#smallschoolbigeducation
  • Friday was a great day for our admin staff! We fanned out to deliver yard signs & thanks to the faculty and staff. It was so fabulous to see people in person and say how much we appreciate the hard work they’ve put into our Distance Learning Program. We’re nearly across the finish line for 2019-2020, and we really did do this together! #smallschoolbigeducation
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    Friday was a great day for our admin staff! We fanned out to deliver yard signs & thanks to the faculty and staff. It was so fabulous to see people in person and say how much we appreciate the hard work they’ve put into our Distance Learning Program. We’re nearly across the finish line for 2019-2020, and we really did do this together! #smallschoolbigeducation
  • One of two regular visitors to the GR1 Bunny Buffet, also known as the First Grade Garden. Not only do they teach our students lots about our ecosystem and the critters it supports, students have also learned that they need to plant their lettuce in taller beds. Photo Cred: Jenny Crotty #smallschoolbigeducation
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    One of two regular visitors to the GR1 Bunny Buffet, also known as the First Grade Garden. Not only do they teach our students lots about our ecosystem and the critters it supports, students have also learned that they need to plant their lettuce in taller beds. Photo Cred: Jenny Crotty #smallschoolbigeducation
  • Old Orchard wishes everyone a peaceful #MartinLutherKing Jr. Holiday. If you are fortunate to have the day off, we encourage you to do a little (or big) something to brighten your community - if you do, please share below! Our First Grade students hope you enjoy their portraits of Dr. King delivering his seminal "I have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The students also wrote and delivered their own Dream-inspired speeches last week. (The portraits and speeches are part of a broader Civil Rights unit First Grade starts at the beginning of every new year. So much credit is due to the partnership of First Grade Teacher Jenny Crotty, and Art Teacher Russell Powell. #TheKingCenter #mlk #ihaveadream #pangaeanstudios #smallschoolbigeducation #mlkday
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    Old Orchard wishes everyone a peaceful #MartinLutherKing Jr. Holiday. If you are fortunate to have the day off, we encourage you to do a little (or big) something to brighten your community - if you do, please share below! Our First Grade students hope you enjoy their portraits of Dr. King delivering his seminal "I have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The students also wrote and delivered their own Dream-inspired speeches last week. (The portraits and speeches are part of a broader Civil Rights unit First Grade starts at the beginning of every new year. So much credit is due to the partnership of First Grade Teacher Jenny Crotty, and Art Teacher Russell Powell. #TheKingCenter #mlk #ihaveadream #pangaeanstudios #smallschoolbigeducation #mlkday
  • Grade 2 had a celebrity beam into class this week: Mystery Doug, a science educator and founder of @MysteryScience. Mystery Doug is well known in student circles for his online chats with classes in which he fields all kinds of questions. With GR2, he talked about California’s largest trees, and showed students a Sugar Pine pine cone, the largest of all pines. He also fielded questions and demonstrated the effects of inhaling Sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, which has the opposite effect of helium - a deep voice. (Why? Because sound moves more slowly through heavy gases like SF6. And, um, yes, we knew that.) Many thanks to @MysteryDougVideo and #mysteryscience #smallschoolbigeducation
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    Grade 2 had a celebrity beam into class this week: Mystery Doug, a science educator and founder of @MysteryScience. Mystery Doug is well known in student circles for his online chats with classes in which he fields all kinds of questions. With GR2, he talked about California’s largest trees, and showed students a Sugar Pine pine cone, the largest of all pines. He also fielded questions and demonstrated the effects of inhaling Sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, which has the opposite effect of helium - a deep voice. (Why? Because sound moves more slowly through heavy gases like SF6. And, um, yes, we knew that.) Many thanks to @MysteryDougVideo and #mysteryscience #smallschoolbigeducation
  • Kids … DO try this at home! GR1 is studying pollinators. As part of their inquiry, they used ordinary materials - straws, pipe cleaners, a little foil, and tape - and engineered their own pollinating critters. Then, equipped with tiny cups of baking soda-pollen, they headed into their garden and started pollinating flowers, dipping fuzzy legs and straw beaks into pollen, and dabbing and blowing it onto flowers. They returned to class with so many ideas on how to design more effective pollinators, they’ve scheduled another design session this week. (Kudos, of course, to Teacher Jenny Crotty who set this great course of study in motion!) #smallschoolbigeducation #scienceed #savethebees
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    Kids … DO try this at home! GR1 is studying pollinators. As part of their inquiry, they used ordinary materials - straws, pipe cleaners, a little foil, and tape - and engineered their own pollinating critters. Then, equipped with tiny cups of baking soda-pollen, they headed into their garden and started pollinating flowers, dipping fuzzy legs and straw beaks into pollen, and dabbing and blowing it onto flowers. They returned to class with so many ideas on how to design more effective pollinators, they’ve scheduled another design session this week. (Kudos, of course, to Teacher Jenny Crotty who set this great course of study in motion!) #smallschoolbigeducation #scienceed #savethebees
  • Look who we ran into at @ndsj annual Women of Impact event this week: Coco Athas! Coco (OOS ’18; ND ’22) and many other ND students were on hand to share the Woman of Impact place settings they created, honoring a huge variety of impactful women past and present. Coco's setting was in honor of Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected president of an African nation and one of three women awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Price "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Great event, and always great to see a graduate in action! #NDWOI #smallschoolbigeducation
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    Look who we ran into at @ndsj annual Women of Impact event this week: Coco Athas! Coco (OOS ’18; ND ’22) and many other ND students were on hand to share the Woman of Impact place settings they created, honoring a huge variety of impactful women past and present. Coco's setting was in honor of Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected president of an African nation and one of three women awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Price "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." Great event, and always great to see a graduate in action! #NDWOI #smallschoolbigeducation
  • Where, o where did all the OOS science teachers go? To the annual @cascience conference. It's in San Jose so we were able to send everyone who teaches science, JK through GR8. The 3-day conference runs through the weekend and early reports say it's a great learning experience, and so cool to hang out with science teachers from a cross the state. #smallschoolbigeducation #teachersarelearnerstoo
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    Where, o where did all the OOS science teachers go? To the annual @cascience conference. It's in San Jose so we were able to send everyone who teaches science, JK through GR8. The 3-day conference runs through the weekend and early reports say it's a great learning experience, and so cool to hang out with science teachers from a cross the state. #smallschoolbigeducation #teachersarelearnerstoo