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School Life

Learning together. Making things. Asking questions. Growing up.
Students working together on watercolor paintings at Dawn Treader Academy

A Day at Dawn Treader

Not a rigid schedule. 

School doesn't always look like bells ringing every 50 minutes. Students move between direct instruction, discussion, independent work, labs, art, and reading as the needs of the day--and the students--require.

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Learning Looks Like this

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READING & DISCUSSION

A senior helps middle schoolers review for a science test.

(They all passed, so she did a good job!)

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EXPERIMENTING & DISCOVERING

Using hammers and vinegar to replicate weathering. That poor limestone!

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MAKING & CREATING

Students painting and sharing stories around the watercolor.

What We're Learning

In Literature

Macbeth

The Hobbit

The Courage of Sarah Noble

In History

The Constitution

Settling of the 13 Colonies

Geography of Africa

In Science

The Earth's Crust

Structure of the Atom

Day 1 of Creation (Light)

In Language

Fables & Narratives

Long Vowel Sounds

The Alphabet

BEYOND THE DESK

Come See for Yourself

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