All posts in 2014-2015

Newtonite Article

Newton North’s school newspaper, The Newtonite, recently published a wonderful article about the Seeds to STEM program. Throughout the process, two reporters, Emily Moss and Maya Abou-Risk, attended several meetings […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: WOW Week

On Thursday, May 14th, we made our final trip to Orchard Gardens to participate in the WOW- a presentation of all our hard work. Here are student’s reactions to the […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Nine and Ten

Tuesday, April 28th, was the ninth week of the Orchard Gardens apprenticeship. Journal comments from Orchard Gardens Students: “…I love being in this apprenticeship.” —Betty “Today we worked on how […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Eight

Tuesday, April 14th, was the eighth week of the Orchard Gardens apprenticeship. Journal comments from Orchard Gardens Students: Today I was actually drawing the whole time. I had a lot […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Seven

Tuesday, April 7th, was the seventh week of the Orchard Gardens apprenticeship. Journal Entry and Response 3/25/15 Edison— Estoy content que participas en las actividades, aunque no comprendes totalmente que […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Six

On Tuesday March 30th, the team took their sixth trip to Orchard Gardens School. Journal comments from Orchard Gardens students: Liran, gracias usted es un buen maestro para my porque […]

Mr. Murphy to the Rescue

On Monday, we reviewed the technological components of the curriculum so we could begin coding. Everyone present began to run into computer problems, and we all began to worry that […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Five

On Tuesday March  24th, the team took their fifth trip to Orchard Gardens School. Journal comments from Orchard Gardens students: “What I enjoyed about this apprenticeship was drawing a design […]

Apprenticeship at Orchard Gardens: Week Four

The team took their fourth trip to Orchard Gardens on March 17. Journal comments from Orchard Gardens students: “Today was a designing day. Plus we didn’t do much because almost […]