Life at Valley

Valley School students and their families descended upon Cama Beach on Camano Island last weekend for the annual Valley School Family Camping Trip.

There was an abundance of learning during the first grade snail unit. After getting their own snail, children weighed and recorded their snail’s weight using a digital scale.

While students and faculty were away enjoying Spring Break, Valley’s Upper School playground received a fabulous and fun upgrade. Two new play structures were added, as well as a new tetherball and foursquare court.

The Third Annual Valley School Art Show, held at the MLK Community center on Friday April 1, was a great success! Each student had a piece that reflected the variety of art forms studied over the course of the school year.

According to Michael Shantz, our steel pan music instructor, "Listening is learning!" This Spring, Valley School fourth and fifth grade students are doing a lot of listening, playing and learning as they participate in weekly steel pan music classes at the MLK Community Center.

On Saturday, March 19, nine members of The Valley School Chess Club participated in the Knightmare's Gauntlet Regional Chess Tournament at The Evergreen School. Over 200 children from the Seattle area, grades kindergarten through 6, participated in the tournament.

As part of 4th grade social studies, students are exploring what life was like in colonial Boston. This student-created mural takes us back in time as students visualize what a colonial village might have looked like back then.

Reading for our yearly Valley School Book Award is underway! While the fifth grade works on completing the list of nominees, the rest of the school is reading and discussing the six books that have been selected so far.

What do an Ili pika, a spider monkey, and an Asian elephant have in common? Just ask a 5th grader! Laura’s 5th grade classroom has been turned into a research laboratory full of fifth-grade researchers collecting and summarizing data about endangered animals of the world.

This week the Pre-Kindergarten curriculum helped Valley School decide on our fundraising efforts in connection to our 100th day of school. Tricia Lapitan, founder of Heroes for the Homeless, met with Pre-K as part of their superheroes and everyday heroes unit.