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Archives for November, 2010

Team-building in Phys. Ed. Class…A Cornerstone for Life!

By Cathy Harder-Bernier, Inly Physical Education Instructor and Athletics Director
Recently, Inly’s phys. ed. classes featured the building blocks and skills needed to learn how to work as a team.  From a developmental perspective, younger children are simply not ready to work or play as a team.  So, Children’s House preschool students first [...]

Inly Upper Elementary Students Explore Movement Through Poetry

By Colleen Quinn, Inly Movement and Theater Instructor
Recently the Upper Elementary students in grades 4–6 explored movement in a different way: through a writing project. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem, I Hear America Singing, we talked about where we see dance movements in everyday life: the teacher’s hand twirling while writing [...]

Frequently Asked Questions About Montessori Preschool

In this installment of the Head’s Podcast Series of 2010–2011, Donna sits down with Annika Voynow, the assistant head of school at Inly, to answer frequently asked questions like “Why it is important to send a young child to preschool instead of day care?” and “Isn’t five mornings a week too much for my three-year-old?”
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Diary of a Middle School Golde, Part Four

By Ali Z. (8th grade)
This week, we rehearsed the bottle dance from Fiddler on the Roof. It is so good! They even used real bottles. I am pleased to report that there is no broken glass on the barn floor.
At one point in the play, we sing “Tradition, Tradition, Tradition” and we have to hold [...]

From One Tevye to Another: Perspectives on Fiddler, Middle School, and Photography

It was a stroke of good luck that the Tevye in the upcoming Inly Middle School production of Fiddler on the Roof had the chance to meet and interview the Tevye from 2003 while they were both at Inly last week working on separate projects.
Mac M. (8th grade) was at Inly for a week-long “behind [...]