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 some of the acreage generally off limits to the little humans so that it can provide habitat […]

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 child wrote something they loved about living in Appalachia or something they were thankful for on a […]

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 and spend this time with your children, learning outside from a place of joy and passion! So, […]

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 to make observations and use our growing understanding of mountain ecosystems (spiced up with a sense of […]

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. Also, we are going to start transitioning to fall and winter clothing. Every cutie needs orange as […]

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.  They were not exaggerating, we tortur….no, I mean to say we taught them all about how heavy […]

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 down real mountains, poured water on them to see where it goes, and constructed mountains out of […]

Hello all! Welcome to our first post about the adventures of in-school Mountain SOL day at MLA, told from the point of view of storyteller and tangent-extraordinaire Jen-Osha! The brief version: tomorrow is our first day of in-school Mountain SOL at MLA.  We will be starting off the year learning about mountains!  Please be sure […]