On Tuesday, March 8th, both Primary and Junior classes went up to Wintergreen Resort to see the sugar maple trees. The Wintergreen Nature Foundation has been experimenting with collecting maple syrup. Virginia has sugar maples along ridge lines and at higher elevations. This maple syrup experiment is on a small scale – last year, they […]
A few more from St. George
Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker try to fix St. George with a very large pair of scissors. When that didn’t go as planned, The Fool revived St. George with some fresh greenery. This year’s play included four new dragons, who recited lines from the hymn “Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New”: […]
St. George 1, Snow 0
The 27th annual performance of St. George and The Dragon drove both the dark and the snow away. Snow canceled Thursday’s dress rehearsal, but the students performed St. George as scheduled on Friday to an enthusiastic audience. This year’s extravaganza began with a reading of poems, the first by Early Primary and Charlotte. Then Charlotte […]
Thanksgiving 2010
The first part of this week was spent preparing the Thanksgiving soup. Everyone contributed vegetables and by Monday we had a generous pile to add. Students spent the week chopping vegetables with soup directors Lisa and Elizabeth. The older kids made cornbread, and on Tuesday evening we also had freshly pressed cider along with the […]
The new school year begins!
Students returned to North Branch last week on September 8th. We were lucky to have lovely cooler weather for the start of school. Everyone is enjoying being outside in the mornings and catching up with friends after a long summer break. A newish (in the last several years) North Branch tradition is running or walking […]
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