What a fabulous Field Day yesterday!!! Starting with the Children's House, then staff challenges midway, and wrapping with high energy activities with the upper grades, it was one for the books! Mr. James, our music director, deejayed the whole event and kept up the mood with motivating music tracks. Different stations the teams rotated to [...]
About five hours from Holly Springs is a unique adventure spot worth every minute of the drive, according to our MAP students and teachers who made the recent journey. Set at 3,000 feet in the Blue Ridge mountains, Earthshine Lodge was their Appalachian home from May 17-20th. Bonfire bonding and twilight chats near the horseshoe [...]
"Play activities are essential to healthy development for children and adolescents. Research shows that 75% of brain development occurs after birth. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences." ~ Maria Montessori in The Absorbent Mind, p. 92. [...]
