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The 10 Best Winter Books for Kids

Winter Reading Round Up: Faculty Book Recommendations As the days get colder, snuggling up next to your child with a delightful book becomes more and more appealing. We compiled a list of some of our classroom’s favorite winter reads that your child will love. We find that books makes fantastic gifts during the holiday season as…

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Chicago Toy and Game Fair & Our Black Friday Picks

  Our Bennett Day School outing to the Chicago Toy & Game Fair was exciting indeed. We discovered fun, friendship, creativity, ideas for gift-giving, and many acts of kindness.  Our students were notably thoughtful and responsible within this very festive environment. One could easily observe the thoughtfulness and adaptability being used by Bennett Day School students…

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A Busy Autumn Season at Bennett Day School!

Join us for a myriad of events this Fall at Bennett Day School!

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Bennett Day School at the Second Annual Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire!

Bennett Day School is proud to be participating in this weekend’s Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire! Join us!

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Digital Citizenship Week and Kids

It is Digital Citizenship Week.  At Bennett Day, we use technology as a tool to document our student digital portfolios and to understand how things work.  We use technology to build, break, dissect, explore, document, and reflect.  We use technology, not to isolate, but instead to facilitate collaboration and human interaction as we foster social…

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How our students helped to develop a coding tool used in 15k schools

As many of our Bennett families already know, we have a wonderful relationship with Northwestern’s Tangible Interaction Design and Learning Laboratory. Our students, with the help of JK Teacher and Special Projects Leader, Frances Judd, were thrilled to be able to assist these three young innovators featured in last month’s Red Eye article.

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Springtime Robotics and Green-Screen Event at Bennett Day School

“These are exciting times in the field of early childhood education. Creative teachers are discovering effective ways to offer children a healthy blend of sensory-rich tactile investigations, artistic creativity, meaningful collaborations, and high-tech tools geared toward problem solving and documenting a child’s work/play. The advent of touch-screen interactions allows screen time to be both engaging…

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Bennett Day Grandparent Shares Her Thoughts on School

At the Winter Harvest Festival, Sharon, a Bennett Day School grandparent, had a chance to experience a day in a life of her grandsons. She was thrilled by the level of curiosity and development of our students, and excited about her grandsons’ future at Bennett Day.  Hear from Sharon in the video below:

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Cameron Smith discusses changing landscape of Chicago schools with WBEZ

WBEZ education reporter Becky Vevea visited Bennett Day School recently to address the changing Chicago school landscape with our Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Cameron Smith.  Cameron discussed with Becky the need for schools that foster a collaborative environment, principally focused on each student’s educational needs — especially with the growing presence of entrepreneurial companies such as Google and Yelp in the city. Didi Lewis of the Neighborhood Parents’…

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