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16245 Westside Hwy SW
Vashon, WA, 98070

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The Vashon Green School is a place-based multi-age learning community located on 7 acres of farm and woodlands, on Vashon’s Westside. We offer a hands-on, hearts-on embodied curriculum rooted in practices that promote social intelligence and connection to the natural world. Our curriculum seeks to provide children with tools and support for living a full, balanced and creative life by giving equal value to each of the four windows of knowing: feeling, imagining, sensing and thinking. Mentors honor each child’s unique gifts and learning styles, supported by our small mentor-student ratio. VGS children, mentors and families journey together to create a learning community rooted in compassion, connection and gratitude.

Online Lessons

Field Guide Journal

Dana Schuerholz

For this unexpected week of no in person school I would like everyone to spend time each day reading, writing and drawing about your nature name. Last week we made booklets that will be part of the final creation that is your field guide. First there is research, which can be done with books and on the computer.

There are seven sections that you will first learn about , then write and draw in the back of your main lesson book. Last week most of you completed About the Author written in the third person and a self portrait.

Description: what group/phylum of animals they belong to, physical characteristics, unique traits/adaptations, status(common, threatened or endangered)

Habitat: tidal zones, and intertidal types of habitat ( rocky, sandy, kelp forests…)

Diet / Food Chain: Who they eat and who eats them and how this changes over their life cycle from egg to adult

Life Cycle: reproduction, life span, migration

Diagram / Illustrations

Cover

About the Author: written in third person and a self portrait

Here are examples of what I am learning and writing and drawing about my nature name, the Shield back kelp crab. Have fun and remember all of the work you are putting into your main lesson book is a rough draft and we will help edit and correct spelling and grammar for your final draft that you will put in the books you all made last week.


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