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upcoming…
Botanical Garden Enrichment Day: Friday, October 18th - Choose from 10am & 1pm class offerings. Spots were remaining, but registration may close soon! The weather is forecasted to be beautiful! Open to the public. Registration here!
Fall Day Camp: Monday, October 28th - A full day of fun awaits! Tree-climbing, creek-stomping, dutch oven cooking, fishing, trails, goats, basketball, and more! Invite friends! Bring the entire family!
Please register this week, if you are able!
Want to go fishing at Day Camp? Rent a free fishing pool from the library!
Picture Day: Tuesday, October 29th: Jennifer K. Powell Photography will be taking our school pictures. Use the link here to pre-register on her website. When you sign up, you'll receive a prep. guide and a price sheet to help you plan for photo day!
Exam Term 1: November 12th & 14th. We are looking for volunteers! We need parents or grandparents to help lead the day while Mentors are working with students in examinations.
Vision Night & Family Dance: Friday, November 15th @ 5:30 pm! Please invite friends and family! All are welcomed. Chili and Square Dancing!
Thanksgiving Break: Tuesday, Nov 26th & Thursday, Nov 28th
Mom’s Night: Friday, December 6th @ 6:30 pm April Gottschalk is graciously opening her Christmas-y home for a mom's night social! Come, eat & drink in the Christmas merriment!
Learning Celebration: Tuesday, Dec 17th @ 6:30 pm
new google calendar
We’ve created a Google Calendar for you! This calendar is to serve as a tool for enrolled Redwood families. The calendar will remain available on the website, as well. You may subscribe to the Google Calendar here.
baby Votruba
Baby Votruba has been born! Hooray! If you’d like to give a meal to the family in these sweet & busy baby days, you can do so here: https://mealtrain.com/r9qv27 Thank you for blessing them!
enrollment
ENROLLMENT: It’s not too late to share Redwood with friends! We have only a few open seats available for immediate enrollment, and ideally, we’d love for families to jump in before the start of the year! Have interested folks contact Kim Kuntz immediately!
this week at RCA
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Our Seeds students have just finished studying China and now on to Japan during our study of people and place reading time. They are also starting paper mosaics this week.
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Our first grade class is spent time is enjoying Grimms fairy tales and American Tall Tales. Additionally, they will be starting string art and bean mosaics this week.
Nature Study: Trees Identification & Spiders
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Our students worked really hard learning how to make topographical maps this week. They had to construct a mountain out of clay then deconstruct it to make their contour lines. So fun to watch!
Nature Study: Tree Identification and Spiders
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In World History this Form just got reading about the Battle of Hastings and in American History they finished reading a book entitled Turtle Island. It is becoming a fan favorite.
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This term we are reading about America’s indigenous populations, learning about Marco Polo‘s journeys, reading a novel set in ancient Korea, and learning about plate tectonics and ocean currents. We are also doing an overview of world history from the time of the Vikings to just beyond 1066. To go along with that, we are reading tales of King Arthur and the knights of Camelot. We are spending two terms working through Plutarch’s biography of Pompey. Our current Shakespeare play is Hamlet.
Nature Study: Tree Identification and Spiders
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We are learning...
New Folk Song: Kahuli Aku
