Third Grade is Growing :)

The 3rd grade students started the growing process in our school's organic garden today. We have been nurturing little seeds and helping them become strong little seedlings ready to welcome the spring air and warm soil. This year's garden will be filled with potatoes, squash, pumpkins, watermelons, and cucumbers grown by the third grade students!! We were so excited to get our hands in the soil and get our garden growing this morning! :)

St. Peter's Sprouts Have Their First Meeting!

A Great Day to Dig in the Dirt :)

A huge "Thank You" to the Sprouts who came out and helped clean out the old and bring in the new for our garden. The students worked extremely hard pulling out old plants, shoveling and turning soil, and planting our new fall vegetables.

Our fall garden is filled with lettuce, kale, collard greens, broccoli, cauliflower, and swiss chard. We will also be adding carrot seeds to one of our raised beds so that our students can enjoy munching on hummus and carrot sticks when harvest time rolls around!

We are really looking forward to our next Sprout's meeting!

St. Peter's Art Gallery

Many thanks to Mrs. Lockrow for taking her time over the summer to add a little more color to our wonderful school. The teachers were looking for a special way to display their students' art pieces, and decided that an art gallery would be the perfect idea. Mrs. Lockrow created a beautiful gallery that allows our students' art to shine and connect our two buildings!

St. Peter's School Director of Advancement Job Opening

Please click here to view the complete job description for the Director of Advancement position.

Resumes may be sent to the attention of Kathy Lanza, Head of School at stpetersposition@gmail.com through Monday, August 8, 2011.

How does your garden grow?

With peppers, tomatoes, squash, corn and herbs, of course!

HATS OFF to Ms. Schlosser's third grade students and our SPROUTS for creating a bountiful summer garden, which is growing strong!

Pictured are "zephyr" yellow squash, bell pepper, "Cherokee" tomatoes, dill and two varieties of basil, all fresh for cooking and eating, straight from the SPROUTS garden at St. Peter's School. Have a safe, healthy summer!

Teacher for A Day

Students thoroughly enjoyed being teacher of the day last week. These students' parents were the highest bidder on this "privelege" at the Episcopalooza auction and some students really got in the groove!

There was a "Headmaster" of the day, "faculty meetings" for our budding teachers and lots of special priveleges that the students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed.

Kindergarteners study Eric Carle

After watching a video showing how author/artist Eric Carle creates his books, the Kindergarten classes decided to try their hand at creating pictures from several Eric Carle books. Each student chose his or her favorite animal from books such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," "The Grouchy Ladybug," and "Dragons, Dragons."

The technique involved layering colored tissue paper onto construction paper, then cutting out shapes to create their own unique design. Check out their beautiful, colorful creations on the first floor of Carson Hall by the staircase.