Last Week of our 2017-18 School Year1

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 6/4 – 6/8

Thank you all for another wonderful school year! Our last week has been jam-packed full of pillow fighting, augmented reality art, parks, Harry Potter, Batman Trivia, a splash pad, spontaneous performances, Aurelia’s 11th birthday, a hike, picnics, arcade games, an inflatable tree, a potluck party, and more!!

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Take a look at these photos for a peek into our magnificent last week of school!

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Have a wonderful summer, we’ll see most of you next year, and good luck to those moving on to new adventures!

VFS Staff

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We’re almost there!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 5/29 – 6/1

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This week we have been winding down our classes and projects to get ready for next week’s adventure week!

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The Bill Nye Science class made potions and learned about chemical reaction. Room A Cooking made chocolate chip cookies! Leif taught an amazing Philosophy class special just for this week.

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Home Ec. Class had a burger cooking competition and provided hot lunch at the same time!

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Community Clean-Up Day went great! The space is looking good and we even got a visit from llamas at the park! Big, super, duper, special, amazing thank you to parents who were able to help us out cleaning. Also thanks to all the students who came and did an awesome job. We had a great turnout and were able to get our whole space into good shape. After clean up, some students dressed up super cutely in Heathers costume!

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Martin will be graduating tomorrow. Congratulations to him!!!

Have a great weekend and see you next week for our last week of the schoolyear!

VFS Staff

Make a Wish!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 5/21 – 5/25

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It’s hard to believe our Spring term is almost over! Our schedule has been packed with many fun activities and individual projects. We started off on Monday learning about the importance of recycling with Ashley from the organization Trash for Peace. With her help, we made a new recycling bin out of plastic bottles! After that, we made wishes at the Wishing Tree and played at Irving Park for the rest of the day.

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We have been making lots of art, cooking, and finishing final projects.

We had visitors from The Frazier Community School on Friday morning. We gave them a tour and took some time to chat with them about our school and theirs.

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In Room A Cooking we made miso soup! Yum!

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We had a Spring Gardening Class Feast at the park on Friday afternoon. We ate vegetables that we grew ourselves, turning them into salad rolls with yummy almond butter sauce!

Have a good weekend

VFS Staff

VFS Artsy Week!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 5/14 – 5/18

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We’ve had a great week after our amazing All School Sleepover! We hope everyone who attended had a great time and got some rest afterward, during the long weekend.

We had an easy start to the week, staying here on Monday for a visit from the owner of Fingerbang! Nail Salons & our alum Miranda, who came to visit and give a makeup tutorial.

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Zoe Keller, a local artist came in on Thursday to host a drawing workshop, and share animal and habitat themed art with us. She even left us with some books she made and illustrated!

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In DIY Everything class, students made some string nail art with Rachel and Karl!

They look so beautiful!

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In Zoology, students have started working on their final projects. They are currently studying vertebrates.

The Bill Nye Science class learned about Food Chains. Did you know that all food chains begin with the sun?

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On Friday, Chorus Club went to KBOO to record their hit single! It was so much fun. We learned that becoming a musician really takes a lot of patience and practice. It took us more than 10 takes to complete a song! Soon our VFS song (debuted at the Grand Reopening) will be featured in the website and our very own Podcast!

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Have a good weekend

VFS Staff

Sleepover at School!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 5/07 – 5/10

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We’ve had a short week at school following our last two days of Family Conferences! We’ve been spending more and more time outside in the beautiful weather, and getting a chance to meet lots of new people trying out experience days!

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We’ve been doing lots of cooking projects lately. Gardner hosted the Room A Cooking class on Wednesday and taught us how to make caramel, and Henrik and Joseph made cake for Home Ec.

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We made a poster for Noppawan to deliver to The Brooklyn Free School while she visits this weekend!

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See you in the morning!

VFS Staff

Learning Gardens Lab!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 4/30 – 5/04

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We had a great time climbing the giant Grandfather (Horse Chestnut) Tree at Learning Garden Labs field trip this Monday.

We also learned about how the garden is used by the community, did a scavenger hunt, tried some edible herbs fresh from the garden, and made some wooden crafts there! It was so much fun!

Lots and lots of us have been going to the park in the afternoon every other day this week. We have been really enjoying our outside time, playing Everybody’s It Tag, climbing trees, and so forth!

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Bill Nye Science class learned about super saturation. Room A Cooking made limey berry popsicles!

We had Family Conferences on Friday and will continue with another round on Next Monday. This is already our last round of conferences for this academic year. Time does flies! Looking ahead, there’s not many weeks left for the school. We hope everyone enriches their VFS experience to the fullest. Our fun time is definitely not to be over soon!

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Have a Springy weekend!

VFS Staff

Clean Up Anarchy!

VFS Weekly Update

for the week of 4/23 – 4/27

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This week we spent a lot of war, sunny days at the park. After some consideration, climbing our tree here at school is back with some new safety regulations. We’ve also been using our outdoor space for other activities, like log ball, and four-square. Check out our new beautiful mural in the stairwell!

All-school Meeting voted to experiment with our current Clean Up Time routine, by making the previously mandatory clean up jobs optional, with interesting results. At a discussion during Friday’s morning meeting, some observed that many people were picking up the slack for others and taking on more responsibility than they might have otherwise, while other people noted that some jobs (such as Kitchen Crew, Tutti Duty, and Bathroom Crew) still don’t feel optional because of health & safety concerns.

We had several cooking projects this week, including southern-fried chicken, pizza, and blueberry muffins.

Have a beautiful weekend!

VFS Staff