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				<title><![CDATA[100 Days of School!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This past week, Valley School celebrated our 100th day of school! Students in all grades had a chance to reflect on all their favorite memories, how much they’ve learned this year, and the great fun they’ve had with friends new and old. The week wrapped up with a celebration of what Valley does best during our annual “Playful Learning Day”!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AT VALLEY]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, September 24, Valley students and teachers from all grades marched to the small park near the intersection of Madison Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. Waving signs about climate change – The seas are rising, and so are we. Save our earth, save the women. Plants, not profit – our students gave voice to their concerns about the impact of the environmental crisis on people and our planet.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:29:52 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[100 DAYS OF SCHOOL (and growth!)]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Valley School celebrated 100 days of school on February 15th. Over the past 100 days, our students and staff alike have grown, have learned, and have played. We have made mistakes, made new friends, and made entirely new games. It’s not as straightforward to quantify experiences or progress as it is time, but counting the passage of time invites reflection. What have we learned? What games were our favorites? How have we grown?]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:28:07 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Apply by January 15 for the 2026-2027 School Year!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Experience the Valley School
•Campus tours for adults on Wednesday mornings
•Family Playdate  on Sunday, February 22
•All School Meetings on Friday mornings (all ages welcome)]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:55:00 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[LIFE AT VALLEY COLLABORATORY]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recent research about how kids learn has repeatedly shown that academic learning and social-emotional learning are deeply interconnected, and that, in fact, when the two are deliberately intertwined, as they are in playful learning, kids not only experience academic and social growth, they learn how to learn. Learning how to learn not only helps prepare students for 21st century opportunities, it prepares them to be lifelong learners.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:58:04 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Dispatches From the Playground]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week during recess something spectacular happened!  The first graders found long boards and combined them with the swings to create thrilling, dynamic seesaws.  Watching them experiment with how to make these new toys work was a treat.  Great questions spilled out of the first grade tinkerers:  Where should we balance the board?  Where should we each stand to make this work?  Can we add different numbers of people to each side?  Can we swing and seesaw at the same time?]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:36:51 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Curriculum Corner - Science Lab]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the science lab, Valley scientists are encouraged to practice curiosity and ask questions. Students learn that science is all about asking questions and then designing experiments and conducting research to answer those questions.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:08:51 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Terrific Colorific Experiment]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our science lab is bustling with the excitement of a new year! Students are exploring the lab and making it their own by adding to our list of field notes (animals and plants that Valley students observe in the wild) and putting questions on our “I wonder…” wall.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:47:11 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Purposeful Play in our Second Classroom]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kindergarten students took on a big collaborative project during recess.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:01:55 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Curriculum Corner: BRAIN LAB]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Valley School 4th Graders Dissect Sheep Brains
Stinky. Awesome. Scientist. Wow. Fun. Maybe. Smelly. Slimy. Smooth. Weird. Surprising.
These are some of the words our fourth graders used to describe their hands-on science lab this week after they dissected sheep brains in the lab with Katie-Rose and Erica.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:47:03 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[La Vida en la Escuela del Valle]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[At Valley, the primary goal of the Spanish language program is for children to enjoy learning and practicing Spanish together.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:01:26 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[THE BENEFITS OF A SMALL SCHOOL]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By early October, I know each of the children at my school. As Head of The Valley School in Madison Valley, I get to greet our students by name each morning at the gate and ask questions that let them know I care about them.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:59:44 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[FORTIFYING COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it takes someone from the outside, someone with an objective mind and fresh perspectives, to remind us of what we’ve got.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:30:10 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fourth Graders Create Mural at MLK Fame Community Center!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As an arts-integration with their classroom study on Washington State, the fourth grade designed a mural for the nearby MLK F.A.M.E. Community Center.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:14:02 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[BOOK REVIEWS BY KIDS FOR KIDS!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Valley School Book Reviews are at The Elliott Bay Book Company!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:50:51 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[ENHANCING OUR LEARNING PROGRAM: A Strategic Plan Initiative]]></title>
				<link>http://www.thevalleyschool.org/apps/news/article/694932</link>
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					<description><![CDATA[On most days of the week, I carve out time in my day for a “walkabout,” my tour of the Valley campus and of each classroom. Always my favorite part of the day, this tour lets me see for myself what kids are learning.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:41:45 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Math Day Was A Huge Success!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The very first Valley School Math Day had an overwhelming crowd and lots of positive feedback!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:10:14 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[MEET SALLY]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Lora Kolmer,  Director of Admissions and Community Relations

Quiet, shy, introverted: these are not words you would associate with Valley alumna Sally Roberts. In the middle of the summer, Sally stopped by Valley to visit her former school and see all the changes that had taken place in the ten years since she had graduated.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:01:24 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[STAY PUT, STAY SMALL, CELEBRATE WOODCHIPS]]></title>
				<link>http://www.thevalleyschool.org/apps/news/article/649784</link>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Alan Braun, Head of School
During my time at The Northwest School, I knew lots of Valley graduates.  I always admired the fondness they had for their elementary school. There was something special about Valley that always led them to consider this their favorite school.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:53:45 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[KIDS AND THE NEWS]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[___
The topic of how kids respond to the news keeps coming up. A recent faculty meeting, a lunch for Heads of School at the NWAIS All Schools Conference, sidewalk conversations with parents – these are all settings where conversations have turned to the anxiety and confusion about the impact of news on our children.]]></description>
				


				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:21:27 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Marilyn Nicolai, Valley Librarian

In our meeting before the start of the school year, the faculty discussed teaching about the upcoming presidential election. Would teachers handle this contentious election any differently than previous elections? How can we promote Valley’s values of kindness and empathy in an environment where the adult discussion is often angry and insulting? The current state of politics is definitely not following our school rules!]]></description>
				


				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:10:57 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[VALLEY SCHOOL AND SNOW!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[All the Valley School children who have been wearing their pajamas inside out and backwards, and sleeping with a spoon under their pillow, have gotten their wish. Snow has fallen in Seattle! Valley opened at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 9 to celebrate their success at the Friday All-School Sing. Congratulations kids!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:01:30 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Why A Strategic Plan?]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[“If I were to ask you to describe The Valley School using single words or short phrases, how would you do it?”]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:28:56 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Valley Third Grader is Making a Difference]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Moira is a Valley third grader who is happy to be a kid in America, but she understands that not all girls in the world have the chances and opportunities that she has. When she learned about Razia Jan and her Ray of Hope Foundation, she decided this was a way she could make a difference.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:57:58 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Playground Provocations, by The Valley School Playground Committee]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another great year at the Valley School! We are excited to begin the year with a renewed passion and dedication to our fabulous playground. We have formed a Playground Committee to help ensure that the children have an exceptional outdoor experience and they are able to use our “second classroom” in varied and exciting ways during the year.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:12:15 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[A Profile of Maintenance Mike, The Valley School’s Jack-of-All-Trades]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Some things you can see….Some things you can’t see. I am very proud of that.”

This is how Mike Miller (aka Maintenance Mike; aka Director of Facilities of the Valley School) describes the work he has done on the school’s behalf since October 2012 when he was hired, on a part-time basis, to help out with some light construction and maintenance.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:43:58 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Michael Shantz and the Steel Pan Drum Experience]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On a recent weekday afternoon this spring, strains of jazz pianist Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’” could be heard at the Martin Luther King Community Center, a short walk from the Valley School.  This version wasn’t being played by a jazz ensemble, however, but by a group of fifteen Valley School fourth graders on steel pan drums, directed by their teacher and veteran steel pan bandleader, Michael Shantz.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:40:09 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Passion for Pups]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week Valley School second graders held a bake sale to benefit the Humane Society. We thought it best to let the students tell this story...]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:05:15 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Valley School Carnival]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sporting flags, bubbles, and balloons, The Valley School welcomed our community, including neighbors and next year's incoming families, to the second annual Valley Carnival on Saturday May 21st!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 10:17:18 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[It’s NOT Greek to Them!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you add an even number to another even number? How about an odd plus another odd number or an even number plus and odd number? This week our first graders traveled back in time to join Euclid's Secret Math Society and to test some of his mathematical theories.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 11:06:26 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fifth Grade IslandWood Trip ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fifth graders returned from IslandWood (many students reluctantly), spilling over with information to share. They report the four-day trip was both educational and eye-opening. This annual trip for Valley School's graduating class is a capstone event, as they reflect on the transition to middle school.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 11:04:09 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Valley School students and their families descended upon Cama Beach on Camano Island last weekend for the annual Valley School Family Camping Trip.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 11:05:16 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[First Grade Wraps Up Their Unit on Snails]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:01:53 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:55:01 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Steel Pan]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 12:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:09:41 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:33:57 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:05:10 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fifth Grade Students Study Endangered Animals of the World]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:38:54 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[100th Day of School Fundraising Efforts]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:34:20 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Super Dogs To The Rescue ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just another exciting day in The Valley School Pre-Kindergarten with some of our favorite four-legged super heroes. As part of their study of real life super heroes in our community, our Pre-Kindergarten students met the King County Search and Rescue Canine Team.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:40:42 -0800</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you sit down to talk with Valley School Chess Club teacher (and international chess master) Bill Schill, you can be sure that you will be gifted with a story. It will be a superbly-crafted narrative, complete with suspense, villains, heroes, close-calls, lucky breaks, and often the story will turn on a specific move: mostly, a chess move.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:08:30 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Mapping Teaching and Learning with Gillian Toledo, Curriculum Coordinator]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[One fall day this October, Gillian Toledo saw a truck backing up to the Valley School property with a load of hay bales.  Wrong address, she assumed, and as she was walking over to speak to the driver, a teacher reminded her that the bales of hay were a seasonal addition to the playground.  Kids could play on them and use them as they like—one of the many ways that the school activates the space of “the second classroom.”  She realized that the problem solving and imaginative play inspired by those hay bales was going to be part of the teaching and learning in this new setting.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Spaces for Learning: The New 3-Classroom Building in Action]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Light-filled, collaborative, creative, and cozy. These are the ways that third, fourth, and fifth grade students and teachers describe the new Valley School classroom building whose doors opened at the Ribbon Cutting and Ice Cream Social on September 8, 2015, just six months after the demolition of the old administration building began.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:14:10 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Sonrisas Y Espanol! ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can tell from the smiles on these 4th grade faces that the Spanish game, El Museo, is a big hit. Valley students in grades 1-5 immerse themselves in Spanish class two times a week for a total of an hour;  Pre-K and  Kindergarten students experience Spanish once a week for thirty minutes.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:48:50 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Community Alliance of Parents (CAP) Parent Education Committee  ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Community Alliance of Parents (CAP) is a parent-run collective set up to leverage parent talent and time for the benefit of our school, our children, and our community. CAP supports community building, volunteer coordination and support for teachers and administrators. All Valley School families are members of CAP.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:49:30 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Pre-K Visits Dogle City Zoo]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week 3rd graders completed mini-research projects about animals living in different parts of the world. As part of their larger project, which involves learning about countries of the world and what makes them special, each third grade student collected facts about a specific animal living in their selected country.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:50:30 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Second Graders & Fairy Tales]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What do Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood have in common? Just ask a second grader! This month our students are exploring the genre of fairy tales and what makes them so unique and entertaining. Students are reading and listening to various fairy tales and working as a class to identify the different elements of a fairy tale. Some of their unique features include talking animals, royalty, magic, the concept of "happily ever after", some danger, a strong protagonist or hero, and a clear antagonist. Of course they learn that fairy tales aren't real but often include important lessons for us all. We invite all families to cozy up on a dark day this month and share a favorite fairy tale.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:58:35 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Smart Subtraction Strategies!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Third grade math students are reviewing and practicing different ways to subtract numbers.  By third grade, our Valley students should demonstrate mastery in their simple addition and subtraction facts, but, as they move into adding and subtracting larger numbers, it’s essential we revisit the meaning of subtraction and various methods we can use to show the process of finding the difference.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:03:29 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Valley School Auction - Community at Work and Play]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Events like The Valley School auction on November 7th, take the collaborative efforts of many parents and students. The annual auction has historically been a time that parents can contribute to the school in a wide variety of ways. The planning committee is at the heart of it all, organizing and firming up details that result in the event running smoothly. In addition, there were parents in each classroom that headed up the class art projects, including the one in the photograph above, class reps who sent auction communications out, parents who donated to the auctioned items, photo books that were created of all our students, sixth grade alumni who helped at the event, volunteers who set up and cleaned up, and all the parents who helped make the auction a success by bidding on the items.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:54:29 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Traditions]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, October 30th, Valley School students and faculty participated in a traditional Halloween event, by parading around the block of our Madison Valley neighborhood. Parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors, including two neighborhood horses, lined the block to watch the procession. Students and parents look forward to traditions such as The Valley School Book Awards, the faculty Halloween Play, family outdoor camp, Friday all-school sing, Winter Extravaganza, Spring Art Show, buddies, fifth grade camp at Islandwood, and many multi-cultural celebrations throughout the year. Our Community Alliance of Parents (CAP) is creating new traditions, with our second community Carnival scheduled for May. At Valley School, we embrace childhood and recognize it is a time to cherish, not rush.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:11:30 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Buddy Walks and Mosaic Towers ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pre-Kindergarten students have been creating their own pet rock characters, complete with colorful hair, googly eyes and facial expressions. When it was time to build homes for their pet rocks, Jill introduced her students to the book, The Wonderful Towers of Watts for inspiration.  The book tells the story of "Old Sam" who created the towers of Watts in Los Angeles by incorporating pieces of tile, glass, wood, pottery and mirrors into a huge mosaic art installation in his neighborhood. 

Coincidentally, Jill discovered a nearby home right here in our own Madison Valley which was also inspired by the Towers of Watts and the strange and beautiful artwork of Simon Rodia. Only problem, it was eight, uphill blocks away. Fourth grade buddies to the rescue! The two classes made the trek together and discovered our very own Towers of Madison Valley. This week the Pre-K students are building their own "towers" complete with pieces of wood, sticks and even tile.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:51:44 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Colorful Dream Houses in Kindergarten]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[For a recent Kindergarten art  project, students were encouraged to make their own dream house after we read The Big Orange Splot.  In the book, Mr. Plumbean gets a big orange spot on his house but instead of painting over it and making his house look like all the other houses again, he adds to the splot and creates the house of his dreams.  He inspires his neighbors to create the house of their dreams too and soon all of the houses on the block are unique reflections of the people inside them. 

Kindergartners created their own unique houses by first drawing different lines to create the outlines of their houses. Then they cut out their creation and added areas of color with crayon.  Next, the artists applied watercolors over the line and crayon areas, utilizing the watercolor resist technique.  To finish, they glued their house to a background.  What a creative community!]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:07:57 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fall Educators Conference]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday October 9th, all faculty from The Valley School attended the NWAIS (Northwest Association of Independent Schools) Fall Educators Conference.  We joined our association colleagues for a day built around Transformative Moments: The Journey to Inclusive, Welcoming Schools. There were over 1,000 educators in attendance, over 55 sessions to choose from, and lunch time meet-ups with those who shared an interest or role. Professional Development for Valley School faculty is designed in a variety of ways over the year, with this conference’s intention to bring us together with peers. Opening Keynote speaker MK Asante started off the day with a powerful story of his journey and how he overcame the odds he was born into. Drawing on his own life, he inspired the audience to seek out the heeling, redemptive power of art, education, and personal inspiration.  The attached photo is the graphic facilitation of his speech by Maketa Wilborn.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:52:16 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Celebrating 30 Years in Style]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, October 3, a warm and wondrous fall day in Seattle, Valley School celebrated its 30th anniversary! The campus buildings were open, including the new upper school classrooms for third through fifth grade, the remodeled administration building, and the new library resource center in the lower level of the Big Room building. There was live music provided by Bakra Bata Steel Band (alumni parents Michael Schantz and Ceda Clemmons), and speeches by Alan Braun, Head of School,  Pat Overy, Founder, and Victoria Mabus, President of the Board. And of course, there was birthday cake! Current families, alumni parents and alumni students as well as current and former faculty were in attendance.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:17:24 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Curriculum & Coffee Anyone?  ]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gillian Toledo, our new Curriculum Coordinator, thinks she has the best job in the whole school. She is working with teachers, students and parents to help document, communicate and refine the teaching and learning at our school. This year, with the help of our wonderful Valley teachers, she will create a comprehensive curriculum map to document key ideas, skills, content and assessment types for all grades. These curriculum maps will help us communicate some of the amazing things we do so well at Valley and to learn more about opportunities for enhanced alignment and improvement in the future. Be sure to introduce yourself if you see Gillian anywhere on campus. Rumor has it she loves to talk about learning over steaming hot cups of coffee.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:14:44 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[The Most Smiley Sound]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ask a first grade Valley student to show you her “most smiley sound” and you should hear the long e sound, loud and clear. You will also see a wide, bright smile spread across her face. Our youngest writers are learning how to make certain sounds with their mouths and then connecting the sound to its corresponding symbol. The Wired for Reading program is part of the foundation of our literacy learning at Valley School. This program helps our youngest writers become more independent, confident writers and readers as they learn to recognize each sound and its corresponding letter. So, if you ask Erica, our first grade teacher, how to spell a word like “see” with a long e in it, don’t be surprised if she simply flashes a huge grin your way.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2015 14:50:10 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Full S.T.E.M. Ahead!]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday-yes, that's right, on the second day of school, Valley School 5th graders tackled their first of many S.T.E.M. challenges.  S.T.E.M. stands for “science, technology, engineering and mathematics” and Laura Maier, the 5th grade teacher, couldn’t wait to present this challenge to her new students.  Their job was to save Fred, a tasty gummy worm, from an imaginary body of water using only 5th grade brain power, four paperclips, one gummy life preserver, and one plastic cup. The catch....they could not touch Fred with their fingers! Ask a fifth grader how they managed to keep Fred safe and how he tasted post-rescue. Hooray for S.T.E.M. explorations… and gummy worms too.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:52:23 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[A Renewed Campus]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, September 8th, Valley School hosted their annual back to school Ice Cream Social. This year it also included a ribbon cutting to officially open up the new Upper School classroom building. Alan Braun, Head of School, recognized the many individuals that made this dream come true. More photos of the new upper school building and the remodeled administration building, as well as the history of our building project can be found on the building project tab under news and events.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:23:35 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That's how Kindergarten teacher Lindsay describes her 11 days of cruising the Svalbard Islands, north of mainland Norway, in the high Arctic (81 degrees latitude). Lindsay reports of not being prepared for the breathtaking scenery and the amazing wildlife. She saw polar bears feasting on a whale carcass, arctic foxes scaling high cliffs looking for bird eggs, puffins in flight, reindeer grazing on the tundra, beluga whales breaching in perfectly flat seas, walruses hauling out on sandy beaches and countless birds. She spent time hiking the rocky, mossy, Arctic terrain, exploring the flora and even swam in the frigid arctic water! She heard massive glaciers calving, saw icebergs that were bright blue in color and made friends with people from all over the globe! Lindsay is looking forward to sharing her new knowledge and experience with us all, but especially with her Kindergarten class.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:52:13 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are many types of approvals you need to secure before occupying a new building. Yesterday, Valley School founder, Pat Overy provided her own stamp of approval after touring  both our new upper school  building (grades three through five) as well as the renovated building which will house administration. In both buildings, natural light filled rooms and clean use of color and form promise an educational environment that will spark creativity, encourage collaboration and inspire both students and faculty alike.  Construction equipment has begun to move out, a new blanket of wood chips makes the playground inviting again and classroom pets are beginning to find their way back to their Valley School classroom homes.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:40:30 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Third Grade went back in time to 1276 visiting the village of Camlann in Carnation. They saw typical village buildings and learned about the daily life of a medieval villager. They saw the Forge and learned how a blacksmith heated and shaped iron to make pots, pans, and arrow heads. They ate a ploughmans lunch on a 'trencher' (a piece of bread used as a plate) while Roger, the tour guide, played the lute to them. They also got to meet Murial the sheep, who provides the wool for the village spinner and weavers.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:48:19 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Growing into our Potential]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Maintaining the intimate setting and the close-knit community that are the hallmarks of Valley, 2015 brings a campus expansion that bolsters innovation in teaching and enrichment activities for the entire school. The campus refurbishing project will establish newer, larger classrooms; create a library learning center to enrich the student experience; improve effectiveness with a fully-functional administrative hub; and provide a cohesive master plan for Valley’s future.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:12:33 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Dissection Investigation]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Students dissected pig hearts in 2nd grade this week!  Children used their senses to explore the hearts while they learned what it does for a body. Currently 2nd graders at Valley School are studying the human body. Three amazing parent volunteers brought in the pig hearts to dissect in small groups with the children in this exciting hands on experience.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 15:26:10 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Second Annual Valley School Art Show was a great success! Each student at The Valley School exhibited a favorite work of art.  It was a sight to see all the artwork thoughtfully presented together! There were drawings, prints, paintings and sculptures. Artworks inspired by Matisse, Dubuffet, Op Art, atmospheric perspective and artist’s books, color mixing, Eric Carle, portraiture, contrasting line and color, and more were all represented. There were even some sculptures inspired by the building project at Valley. It was an awesome display of the creativity and talent at The Valley School!]]></description>
				
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					<description><![CDATA[Our first graders shared their wealth of knowledge on snails this week with older students around school.  They showed off their science learning with live displays of snail weight, diet, habitat, reproduction, and speed.  In addition to the science that fills first grade, the class has also worked on snail inspired art, literature and writing.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:12:46 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Valley Alumni Spotlight: Petra Thompson]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of class of 1996 alum Petra Thompson’s fondest memories of The Valley School was of the quiet time she got to enjoy in aftercare with Roanna. Growing up in Madison Valley, Petra walked to and from school every day and because both of her parents worked she was lucky enough to spend extra time in what she describes as her “home away from home.” Her relationship with Valley endures today not just in the friendships she made but also in her current role as Valley School Board member.

We talked with Petra during a rare break in her busy schedule working for Fitmob, a fitness technology startup company that launched in Seattle five months ago. Prior to fitmob, Petra spent 9 years at lululemon athletica in leadership and organizational development. We were curious to learn about the path that Petra took from the Valley School to where she is now and to hear about her perspective on and vision for the Valley School today.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:13:07 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[4th Graders Interview New Head of The Valley School, Alan Braun]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[He is a universal blood donor (O+ type). He does not drive a Ferrari (and probably never will). And when he was in fourth grade, he dreamed of becoming a fire fighter. 

These were just a few of the fascinating insights our current Valley School fourth graders drew from the new head of school, Alan Braun, when they recently sat down to interview him for this profile piece. The following is a window into that conversation:]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:13:35 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Tradition endures—and creativity sparks—at Valley]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every student and parent has that one special lesson from Valley, the one they will always remember. Maybe it’s the ritualistic Archimedes bath in first grade where kids literally get their feet wet studying ancient Greece. Or is it the snowy landscape of kindergarten, frozen in a study of the arctic? You’ll still find many of those treasured units in the classroom. We think there would be riots if we took them away! But our incredible faculty are also innovators, pedagogical tinkerers, and they work each year to approach a unit from a fresh angle or to shake things up and bring in topics the students have never encountered. Here’s what’s happening in several of our classrooms right now—from the classics you remember to cool new units that may yet become new traditions.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:13:47 -0700</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Third graders experimented with wheels and axles last week.  They looked at working examples such as bikes, carts, doorknobs and roller skates. In their Greek and Latin Roots class with Jacob they read about the history of the Latin root ‘Rota’. They have continued to design some of their own fantastic vehicles including refreshment carts for the Seahawks Stadium, an animal cart to take stray animals to the vet, and a Microsoft delivery van. They sketched designs and started constructing them out of milk cartons.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:14:01 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Fairy Tale Times]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 5th grade publication of the Fairy Tale Times is hot off the press!  Students explored journalism techniques, refined their peer revision skills, and practiced writing for a broad audience as they re-interpreted classic fairy tales.  They imagined classic characters reacting to real-life situations through writing, advertising, comic strips, crossword puzzles and more in this culminating project.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:14:14 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Math At Our Fingertips]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mathematical learning is literally at the fingertips of our Valley students.   We explore and work using manipulatives and consistently stress process instead of product only.  Having partner and class discussions and using real life situations, hands-on activities bridge the connection between the abstract and symbolic language of mathematics.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:14:35 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Peer Portraiture]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[5th Grade artists got into pairs and they began their work by looking at the shape of their partner’s jaw, noticing that it was more of a U-shape or a V-shape.  They then painted their facial features, noticing the distance and relationships between them. Lastly, they added hair texture and other characteristics unique to them, like freckles and clothing details.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:14:49 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Ancient Rome Storytelling]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Illustrating and authoring comic strips about the myth of Romulus and Remus kept second graders engaged this week in the work of re-telling, organizing and synthesizing the ancient story.]]></description>
				
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				<title><![CDATA[Tree Fort Exploration]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Students are exploring and investigating our plum trees on the upper school playground from a new vantage point this week.  The new tree fort  is creating a special place for student exploration, friendship fostering, and creative play.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:15:19 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Salmon Life Cycle]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After raising salmon from eggs, alevin, fry to parr, 3rd through 5th grade walked to the arboretum and students carefully released the growing fish into their natural habitat for life in the Puget Sound.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 10:15:36 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Ice Castle Build]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Students engaged in playful, imaginative work, science experimentation and community building by constructing colorful structures of ice for a St. Patrick's Day event.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:33:42 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Musical Harmony]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prek-5th grade students preformed a 7 part arrangement of the popular song "Happy" as arranged by our own music specialist, Sari Breznau, at this years graduation.]]></description>
				
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				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:03:26 -0700</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Investigating the Human Body]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kindergarten students explored, studied, and depicted the human body as a working system.]]></description>
				
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