Red Cedar Middle School Students Design Buildings and Bridges

Middle school students recently spent time designing buildings and bridges as part of a mathematics project aimed at exploring proportional reasoning and comparisons of scale and ratio. Students worked as architects do by calculating scale factors and matching the form of their design to its intended function. Creativity was encouraged as students learned and applied the mathematics of Pythagoras, the Golden Ratio, and Pi to their concept drawings and scale diagrams. These blue prints were then transformed into scale models which are on display at Red Cedar School.

Middle school students with completed designs and models.

Eliot's Sod/Eco House takes form.

Eliot focused on the details of his environmentally friendly, lean-to inspired home for four.

Margot's stone foot bridge under construction.

Margot's detailed drawing of the pylons and arches of her stone bridge.

John with his timber framed dairy barn.

View of the inside of John's barn. The cows must be out to pasture?

Parker's scale drawings.

Parker along with his fortified castle, Burg Dracheshlof.

Detail of Parker's Burg Dracheshlof.

Parker's concept drawing.

Miranda works on the details of her model hotel, the Selinger Inn. Clearly a five star!

Miranda's scale drawing along with calculations.

Adrian along with his model of El Hotel Magnifico.

Patrick's model. The A.I. Institute for Robotics whose mission is to make great advances in the field of Robotics and related technology.

Kellen with his model home. Tinderbox.

C takes a break from working on the his waterfront Lake House Restaurant complete with docks.

Red Cedar Gets a Bus!

Late this winter, a dream came true for the school with our purchase of a school bus. We will now be able to get out into 'the field' much more easily. Whole classes can readily use the bus to go on all kinds of field trips, and make local communities and the natural world even more a part of the hands-on learning that students experience at Red Cedar.

We are also going to begin providing transportation for Chittenden County students at the beginning and end of the school day. We have a growing number of students coming from the north. Red Cedar's location on the northern end of Addison County makes it accessible to students who live in Chittenden County. The bus will soon begin daily runs to Williston with stops along the way in Monkton and Hinesburg. Families who live further north or east in Essex, Jericho, or Underhill will meet at the stop in Williston Center. Next year we plan to add a stop near the interstate by Tafts Corners for families in Burlington, Colchester and Essex.

Surely the most adorable bus in the world.

The bus arrives late on a snowy afternoon.

Winter Fun at the Red Cedar School

Bo takes a test run.

Xzavia

Quinn

Charlie

Isaiah

Nadine and Jezriel

Quinn.....Look out!

Isaac

Bo

Red Cedar Students Learn to Ski and Snowboard

Red Cedar School students took to the slopes and wooded trails of Bolton Valley this past January and February during our Wednesday afternoon ski and snowboarding workshops.

Schuyler takes a breather at the summit!

Louis demonstrating the free heel technique.

Nimaya, Amanda, and Ark pose for a family shot.

Isaac takes in the scenic beauty of the Bolton Valley forest .

Isaac and Sam race down the hill.

Bill takes to the air!

John prepares himself to shred some powder!

Brendan in a winter wonderland!

Adrian, Ryan, and Kellen getting psyched for the terrain park!