In School Mountain SOL – Late Winter/Early Spring!

From our archive. This was posted in March 2023. For what’s happening now, see our current classes.   Hello Mt SOL families! During late winter and early spring we finished up our unit on songbirds and spring plants! We talked about and listened for and mimicked the calls of: woodpeckers (downy, hairy, red-bellied), Carolina wrens, […]

In School Mountain SOL: Feb 2nd and 9

From our archive. This was posted in February 2023. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families! Wow, we have had some weather extremes these last two weeks.  We have gone out in the snow and then the next week been playing in the creek in short sleeved shirts!  Our afterschool animal […]

In School Mountain SOL: Jan 19th and 26th

From our archive. This was posted in February 2023. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hey hey MLA families! We have been continuing to learn about moon phases as well as different signs of seasonal change. On Jan 19th we did an Oreo exercise to practice learning about the phases of the moon […]

In School Mountain SOL: Jan 5 and 12

From our archive. This was posted in January 2023. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hey MLA families! We hope that you are all having a good start to your new year! Our first week back we decided to go explore a place that each class had not been to yet.  We keep […]

In School Mountain SOL: International Mountain Day!

From our archive. This was posted in January 2023. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hey hey MLA families! Thank you for all of the help that we had for International Mountain day. It was a huge success! Each class chose a tree on campus the week before, and for our celebration each […]

In School Mountain SOL: Oct 27 – Nov 10

From our archive. This was posted in November 2022. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families, I missed a week, oops!  It might be because I am distracted by Mountain SOL receiving a… NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GRANT WOOT WOOT WOOT It is, as always, a blessing to be able to work here […]

In School Mtn SOL at MLA! Oct 13 and 20

From our archive. This was posted in October 2022. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families! So….did your kids tell you about biocrust? Or perhaps sing to you about it? Well, we had an epic magic adventure experiencing first-hand how mother nature can heal herself. Along the way we were able […]

In School Mtn SOL at MLA! Sept 29 and Oct 6

From our archive. This was posted in October 2022. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families! The weather is changing, and we have to change with it. The ticks are still holding on, so please do a tick check for a few more weeks on Thursdays when your kiddo comes home. […]

In School Mtn SOL at MLA! Sept 15 and 22

From our archive. This was posted in September 2022. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families! Did your child perhaps inform you that they were forced to do manual labor at Mountain SOL? Well, it’s true.  We made them carry water to the top of the mountain…just to dump it out.  […]

In School Mountain SOL at MLA! September 1 and 8, 2022

From our archive. This was posted in September 2022. For what’s happening now, see our current classes. Hello MLA families, welcome to our second post about In School Mountain SOL. We have had two classes so far on mountains and then water in mountains. For the younger kids, we have created mountains, walked up and […]