Feb 18, 2021 | courage over comfort, Design Thinking, IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, idea-featured, IMAMUSTANG, Innovation, Inquiry, Maverick, Preschool News, Share the Well
Contributed by Preschool Learning Architect Liz Aull The teachers in the four Toddlers and Infants classrooms are dedicated to their children, their children’s families, to each other, and to Mount Vernon. Unfortunately, schedules and COVID safety parameters often...
Nov 10, 2020 | courage over comfort, Fine Arts, IMAMUSTANG, Impact, Innovation, Maker, Maverick, Multiplier, Preschool News, Share the Well
Contributed by Preschool Learning Architect Liz Aull One of the guiding principles at the Mount Vernon School is the idea that relationships are foundational to learning. While that happens every day in the Preschool, one new relationship that has been forged this...
Nov 2, 2020 | Come to Play, Design Thinking, Have Fun, IMAMUSTANG, Inquiry, Maverick, Multiplier, Preschool News, Share the Well, Upper School News
Coming back to school in 2020 looked different than any other year. In addition to other precautionary measures, all students – even Preschoolers! – have been masked up, every day! But why are masks important? Class of 2024 Shea Griffith wanted to help our...
Sep 29, 2020 | Highlights, IMAMUSTANG, Inquiry, PBL/IBL, Preschool News
Contributed by Head of Lower Campus Shelley Searcy What does Inquiry Based Learning look like in a PK4 classroom? As a School of inquiry who believes curiosity and passion drive learning, our teachers are doing more than observe what young children are naturally...
Mar 4, 2020 | Have Fun, IMAMUSTANG, Inquiry, PBL/IBL, Preschool News, Share the Well
Contributed by Early Preschool Teacher Chelsea Owens The Mount Vernon Baby Project came about very organically. At the start of the school year, we had 13 children in the two-year-old class, and of those 13 children, six of them had infant siblings that...
Feb 26, 2020 | All School, Build People Up, IMAMUSTANG, Impact, Lower School News, Middle School News, Multiplier, Preschool News, Share the Well, Upper School News
In an annual effort to give back, Mount Vernon students and teachers participated in a campus-wide Spring Cleaning drive in order to share the well with those in our local community who might be in need this spring. This year, to broaden our reach and vary our routes,...