By: Darcie Steeves, Grade 5 Teacher The skills listed below are introduced, reviewed or mastered during the fifth grade year at our school. I thought this would be useful in preparation for 6th grade. LANGUAGE ARTS mastery of reading and …
Guess Who? Meet Martha Mathis
By: Becky Larson This photograph of Martha Mathis, Administrative Assistant, was taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma around Christmas time. Martha is shown here with her best friend Sally, who she’s known since they were four years old. “Sally and I never went to …
Guess Who? Meet Peng Liu
By: Becky Larson This photograph shows Peng Liu, our Mandarin teacher, as a Kindergartener. She remembers that her mother had made all her clothing, her shoes had a little hole and the apartment building was brand new. “Chinese people like …
Guess Who? Meet Amy Laederach
By: Becky Larson Many of you instantly recognized Amy Laederach, Early Childhood Assistant in the Willow Kindergarten class, in this photo from 1988, the year our school was founded. She’s hardly changed a bit! Amy and I sat …
The Nine Year Change
By: Lauri Pierce, Grade 4 Teacher At a recent parent meeting, I gave a picture of child development, starting with a John Steinbeck quote from East of Eden: “When a child first catches adults out – when it first walks …
Guess Who? Meet Jason Burnstein
Guess Who? Meet Jason Burnstein By: Becky Larson Did you recognize our movement and games teacher Jason Burnstein in this photograph from 1988, the year our school was founded? This picture was taken on a family vacation to Mazatlan, Mexico …
Guess Who? Meet Kelly Larson
By: Becky Larson Kelly Larson, our 8th grade teacher, has been at City of Lakes Waldorf School for ten years and spent the previous 13 years teaching middle school in public and alternative ed programs. She grew up in California, …
All School Meeting Presentation
On April 18, our Board of Trustees hosted our last All School Meeting of the year. We heard from Dan Nelson, Treasurer, about the school’s finances, Caroline Askew, Admissions Director, about present and projected enrollment. Ann Burk, representative from the Development …
Guess Who? Meet Lori Daniels
By: Becky Larson Lori Daniels’ golden curls were a dead giveaway for this Guess Who- there were very few incorrect guesses! Our Willow Kindergarten teacher and I sat down to discuss how babysitting was an early indication of her love …
Guess Who? Meet Marcee Hansen
By: Becky Larson This photo may have been a little blurry, but many of you still recognized Marcee Hansen, our Grade 7 teacher. In this photo she was teaching in Jamaica for an anthropology field course in college. She spent …