Friday, May 3, 2013
Junior high students at Da Vinci Waldorf School in Wauconda go on service trip to South Dakota Indian reservation, the second poorest county in the U.S.
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Friday, May 3
Da Vinci Waldorf School students have left the comfort of their suburban homes in Lake Zurich, Barrington and other northwest suburbs for a week service trip to the Lakota Nation Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. While there, students in sixth, seventh and eighth grade will help clean and repair homes on the reservation. The students will also provide service at the Lakota Waldorf School. The Pine Ridge Reservation is situated within Shannon County where the per-capita income makes it the second poorest county in the USA with an average annual income of $3,700 and an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Almost 50 percent of the residents on the Pine Ridge Reservation live under the poverty level. There are still residents on the …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Free film screening that explore's nature's powerful role in children's health.
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Tuesday, February 12
"Mother Nature's Child: Growing Outdoors in a Media Age" will be shown at Da Vinci Waldorf School, Saturday, Feb. 16, 10 a.m. to noon. Da Vinci Waldorf School is located at 150 W. Bonner Rd., Wauconda. This film explores nature's powerful role in children's health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. It asks the questions: Why do children need unstructured time outside? What is the place of risk-taking in healthy child development? How is play a form of learning? What does it mean to educate the 'whole' child? Topic facilitators from Da Vinci Waldorf: Susan Love and Donna Brooks. Childcare provided. RSVP required and donation requested. Call (847) 526-1372. Concession stand …
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Upper grades students participate in numerous service projects.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
This year, Da Vinci Waldorf School sixth- through eighth-graders have been involved in three service projects. They volunteer with Citizens for Conservation, based in Barrington; Walk on Farm in Barrington, which provides equine assisted therapy; and at Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center—the veteran’s hospital in North Chicago. “It’s very important for adolescents to feel a purpose, a place in the world—that they’re not just receiving from the world,” said eighth-grade teacher Kathy Matlin. The students have been removing buckthorn at Flint Creek Savanna South for Citizens for Conservation. The students service project at Walk on Farm involves cleaning horse stalls and grooming horses that are used in equine assisted …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Students removed buckthorn at Flint Creek Savanna South.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
For the second time this year, as part of their curriculum, sixth through eighth grade students and teachers from Wauconda's Da Vinci Waldorf School provided an afternoon of service for Citizens for Conservation (CFC). On Nov. 9, once at CFC, the students remembered to find a pair of work gloves and were ready to carpool to Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna South. There the students quickly and tirelessly began the removal of invasive multiflora rose and buckthorn. Recalling what they learned from their first service day, the students easily identified the invasives. After a short water break at the workday’s mid-way point, the students removed additional buckthorn and wild rose to make a pile roughly 10 feet by 10 feet…
