A wonderful group of parents are helping the One Campaign. They are reaching out to every family in the school, asking you to meet to discuss the campaign and how your family might be able to support it. It isn’t easy for anyone to ask for money, nor is it easy to ask someone to […]
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Fall Fair & Open House, Saturday, November 5th: Fall Fair planning is under way with the Fall Fair a month away! Once again we have numerous enthusiastic activity organizers and we hope with their energy plus the help from every family in the community, it will help to make this year a success. There are activities […]
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The Squirrel’s Attic is happy to present the first in a series of DIY craft ideas for this year’s Fall Fair. This week’s featured craft: Watercolor Notebooks. Materials Needed: “extra” watercolor artwork your children have lovingly created, glue, sheets of lightweight paper. Optional: staples or embroidery floss. If you have “extra” works of art in […]
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Michaelmas is symbolic, ancient tradition celebrated in autumn. As the days grow shorter and the sun wanes, human beings often feel called to sleepiness. The strength of our will seems sapped, and we feel pulled towards complacency. To conquer this lethargic “dragon,” we must look inward to find strength and an “inner light” to guide […]
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On Friday, September 23rd, a surprise trip was sprung on the Seventh grade. Just when they thought they knew everything about a day in the life of a Maine Coast Waldorfer, they were asked, in the middle of their Perspective Drawing Main Lesson, to go get into cars for a journey. We went to Monkey C […]
Read More »On a beautiful September morning, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth graders gathered outside to be a part of the Mountain Top Smoke Ceremony. Sangngag Rinpoche, a Buddhist Lama living in Nepal, came to lead us in the ceremony which is performed when new things are to come. Rinpoche is a special friend of the Seventh graders; […]
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As part of their zoology block, the Class of 2017 spent all of last week studying marine biology at Hermit Island, along with nearly one hundred Waldorf students from four other Waldorf schools. The week was crammed with activities—joint morning lessons, tide pool explorations, poetry and painting workshops, microscope and dune ecology labs, campfires and […]
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Tuesday morning, September 27th, the class of 2018 plus Sereina, our exchange student from Switzerland, packed into a HS van and off we went! Our fearless driver, David Barham, took us safely to beautiful Quebec city, where we arrived some 6 hours later. For the next 4 days, our 11th grade students explored the narrow […]
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On Friday, 9/30, the middle school team traveled to Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook for the Scarborough Invitational where 23 teams from across the state converged on the two mile course over fields, trails, and farm roads. It was a little chilly for spectators but prime conditions for our runners once the races got started. […]
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You might think with grades 9-12 having been away on trips last week that not much was going on in the world of high school cross country, however it’s turned out to have been a big week. In the Friday edition of the Portland Press Herald, our own Tucker Pierce received Honorable Mention in the Athlete […]
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