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16245 Westside Hwy SW
Vashon, WA, 98070

206-466-7398

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.

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daily schedule

"To see the world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wildflower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, 
And eternity in an hour."

                                --William Blake

9:00 am – 3 pm  Monday -Thursday

  • 9:00 - 9:30 ROLLING START

  • 9:30 - 10:00 OPENING CIRCLE

  • 10:00 - 10:25 CHORES -

  • 10:25 - 10:45 SNACK

  • 10:45 - 12:45 MORNING LESSONS: HUMANITIES, MATH, SPANISH, WRITING/READING LAB

  • 12:45 - 1:45 LUNCH AND FREE TIME

  • 1:45 - 2:45 AFTERNOON ACTIVITY All hands-on -planting, building, art, letter writing, sensory awareness games, artisan crafts…

    • Thursdays 9:30 - 3:00 FIELD TRIPS and CIVIC ACTION: beach clean-up, food bank volunteering…

  • 2:45 - 3:00 CLOSING CIRCLE

We bring our minds together with Opening Circle, a time for gratitude, singing, movement, storytelling, and poetry. Each child holds a direction around our circle where we begin and end each day, eat lunch and gather for community celebrations.

Chores bring us into relationship with the animals and plants we tend and build skills in communication, cooperation, and collaboration and provide opportunities for big muscle movement. Daily stewardship builds awareness of our impacts on the more than human beings we share this place with.  

Morning Lessons: humanities, math, science, writing, reading, Spanish, and illustration. Lessons follow six-week unit themes (unit/theme examples are: geography, migration, plant cycles, climate justice, Black Lives Matter, Renewable Energy, Food Webs… ).

Reading /Writing Tutoring Laboratory (Mon. and Wed. mornings): students work individually and in small groups with learning specialist Amy Mercer.

Math and Project Block Time Tuesday mornings with Margaret Strader

Afternoon classes explore the current unit theme through group and individual hands-on activities that include science projects, permaculture/gardening, building, land stewardship, emotional literacy, fiber arts, visual art, and sensory awareness games.  

Closing circle is a time for spirited singing and students’ apples (something sweet), onions (not so sweet) and carrots (an act of kindness).