Seniors Colin Johnson and Madison Gottlieb have joined the Preschool this week as part of their Independent Senior Projects (ISP). Both writers, the students are investigating the emergence of writing skills in the preschool child.

Now an annual Preschool tradition, Family Fun Night brought current Preschool families and newly admitted Preschool families together for a wonderful night of pasta and puppets last Friday night.

We have ducklings in the Preschool! We have incubated and hatched chickens before in the Preschool—in fact, two of our egg-laying hens in the coop are babies that were born here; but, this is the first time we’ve hatched ducklings.

In order to give my Advanced Placement human geography students a better understanding of urbanization, industrialization, commuting, and city life, I conduct a field study to Los Angeles each year.

Easter time in the Preschool means dying and hunting for eggs, but it also means a chance to hone math and language skills and develop fine and large muscle control—and it’s a lot of fun, too!

Dr. Jennifer Ross-Viola’s Advanced Placement environmental science classes took a short field trip to the Prima Deshecha Landfill last month to study solid waste management and the cogeneration of electricity. Below, a student summarizes her experience during the field trip.

Internationally-known Visual Artist and Independent Curator Noah Saterstrom visited more than 20 Lower, Middle and Upper School classes and the Kindergarten Art Club to share his drawings and oil paintings with students through lectures and class discussions during the week of February 13.

Last week the French 1 class visited the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena where we were privileged enough to tour the museum before it even opened.

When Mr. Allison realized that the grade 2 students were learning about the branches of government and how a bill becomes a law, he asked two of his students if they would be interested in creating, planning and implementing a lesson for the second graders. Budding teachers Alyssa Maita and Martha Sheets took the opportunity and ran with it.

In Mr. [Eric] Harrington’s science class students are given the opportunity to create and present an ocean science project. Two particular teams decided to do their projects on creating an environmentally-friendly surfboard.