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Back to School: 3 Ways Parents Can Support and Empower Their Children
This infographic provides suggestions for how parents can support and empower their children when it’s time to go back to school.
Back to School: 4 Ways to Prepare Your Kids
This blog, written by first grade teacher Katie Leviton, provides suggestions for how parents can prepare their children for “school season.”
Here We Grow Again! August Construction Update
Construction at Bennett Day is on time and on schedule for the first day of school on August 26!
Kids Co-designing for Kids: 7 Hands-On Explorations with Osmo Kaleidoscope
PreK-4th grade children at Bennett Day School worked together to design a new app for Osmo explorations. Co-designed with their Tinkering and Engineering Sciences (TES) Lab teacher, this collaboration resulted in the creation of Osmo Kaleidoscope for hands-on creativity and learning. Now available for free download on the App Store, this app empowers all Osmo users to design…
Summer Academics: Guest Blog by Senior Kindergarten Co-Lead Teachers, Katie Gertler and Julia DaSilva
Now that it’s summer, it’s important to ensure that your child is still receiving some type of academic consistency while on break. By no means does it need to be intensive or the main focus of the summer, but it is necessary to prevent what teachers call “The Summer Slide.” This is when your child…
Here We Grow Again! Spring 2019 Construction Update
We are thrilled to share the enormous progress made in the exciting expansion of the Bennett Day School Campus at 955 W. Grand Ave. Located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood at Morgan and Grand Avenues, Bennett Day is the fastest growing independent PK-12th grade school in the City of Chicago. As you can see, the expansion is coming…
Junior Kindergarteners Channel NPR with Podcast on the Human Body
Inspired by the children’s doctor-themed dramatic play and the Bennett Day “Get Wellthy” Challenge, Mr. Nearpass and Ms. Simmons’ kindergarten classroom spent three months researching the body and medical professions to better understand how to keep themselves healthy.
What in the World is Executive Functioning? Why Should Parents and Teachers Care?
Here’s one for the messy kid who can never find two matching socks. The kid who says “nothing” when asked what they have to do tonight; who forgets what you asked them to do five seconds ago. The kid whose backpack is stuffed to the gills with wadded up pieces of paper and the remnants…
Mentors Make All the Difference: A Reflection on Student-Teacher Relationships at High Tech High & Bennett Day Upper School
Bennett Day School is the only school in Illinois to receive the New School Creation Fellowship from High Tech High, the progressive, project-based school featured in the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed.” Representatives from Bennett Day Upper School spent a week at High Tech High in San Diego for the second phase of the fellowship….