Dear Friends- When our Downstairs students are finished with lunch, we ask them to wait for their friends who are still eating by grabbing a book to read. Even our three year-olds are developing the habit of finding books which enthrall, entertain, and inform them. At this point they might only know how to spell their own name, but they have started down a path of discovery and they soon will be learning to spell their friends’ names, to identify simple common words, and to c

Dear Friends- We would like to invite you to the Math Mall, which is a fairly exclusive group of shops filled with only the finest artisanal, handcrafted items created by our Upstairs students. Oh… and the shops are only open during school hours, only accept play money, and you have to keep track of your transactions in a log book... and at the end of Math Mall hours, everyone has to give all their play money back to the “bank” so that the Mall can open for business again the

Hello Friends- The start of school after winter break is an incredibly interesting time. The internal clock of many of the children has been set to “sleep, play, relax, repeat” for the last two weeks. We watch with great interest as they slowly find their way back into the school schedule, getting used to “Randolph Time” as if we had just gone through daylight savings. Parents and teachers are not immune to this phenomenon either, and I have noticed that the coffee maker in o