Sheridan School Showcase

On Thursday, December 16, the Lake Forest High School Holiday Wind Ensemble visited Sheridan School and provided some fabulous entertainment during the lunch periods. Mr. Koch captured some of the instrumental performances from this fine group of musicians and edited together a video (11:21) featuring: 1. Jingle Bells (2:23) 2. The First Nowell (1:35) 3. [...]

As a creative thinking activity to support the reading of The Mitten, by Jan Brett, first graders were asked to write a “speech bubble” or “thinking thought” for one of the pages with no text. In the picture, Babba, is holding two mittens. Students wrote and recorded their thoughts with Mr. Koch in three separate [...]

What a fabulous response we have received from the Sheridan School community in response to the Africa Library Service Project! When we announced our goal of collecting 100 books at our Sheridan School Sharing Day on November 19, we never dreamed that with one week still to go families would have donated more than 220 [...]

Mrs. Thoune’s second graders have been busy learning about urban, suburban and rural communities. Mrs. Newtown worked with the students in the computer lab to create their own Pixie projects complete with art work and text. Students put the finishing touches on their projects by recording audio segments for each of their reports with Mr. [...]