Gardner Weekly Newsletter
February 18th, 2025
Gardner Quest / Gardner Market / Focus on Learning: Multiple Intelligences / FROGS News / Winter Extracurriculars / Campus Photos / Events
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PARENT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & GARDNER QUEST 2025!
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This short week following the Presidents Day holiday is a busy, eventful one for everyone on campus. We look forward to welcoming parents to conferences on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon; those conversations are central to the home-school partnership and serve as a timely touchpoint for communication about student experience, growth, and achievement.
In spite of the change in class schedule for students on conference days, dismissal will be at the normal time this week.
While classroom teachers are meeting with parents, students will work in multi-grade teams on the annual Gardner Quest. This year's challenge involves creating a dramatic group production of a favorite book or story. Students will work and play together in the afternoons this week on those presentations, which will be delivered during Community Meeting on Friday afternoon.
We look forward to seeing parents on campus! Please reach out if you have any questions about the conference schedule or dismissal times for students.
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Gardner Market, one of our school's oldest and most cherished annual events, is coming up on Friday, February 28th!
Each year, students and teachers engage collaboratively on this significant project, which combines community service with authentic learning about money, economic systems, consumerism, and public communication/relations. Classes choose items to produce and sell at the market, and all participants have the opportunity to both sell and purchase items, which typically range from food to more utilitarian items.
The students voted earlier in the year on the selection of an organization to which they will donate at least 50% of their proceeds. The lucky benefactor for Gardner Market this year is the Word Central Kitchen, which works on the front lines of humanitarian, climate, and community crises to provide meals to those in need. We are proud to support this amazing organization and hope you will assist our effort by attending the Gardner Market on 2/28. The general public, including parents, grandparents, neighbors, and friends, will be open for one eventful hour beginning at 2:30 p.m. We look forward to seeing you!
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FOCUS ON LEARNING: MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES (part 3 of 9)
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Teaching and learning at Gardner is characterized by engaging the whole child in the process of learning about self, others, and the world. Among the progressive educational theories that inform our practice is the Multiple Intelligences framework developed by Howard Gardner in the mid 1980's. Gardner suggested that people demonstrate intelligence not only in terms of traditionally recognized cognitive problem-solving, but also across the following eight categories: visual/spatial; linguistic/verbal; logical/mathematical; body/kinesthetic; musical; interpersonal; intrapersonal; and naturalistic.
People who are strong in logical-mathematical intelligence are good at reasoning, recognizing patterns, and logically analyzing problems. These individuals tend to think conceptually about numbers, relationships, and patterns.
People with high logical-mathematical intelligence have excellent problem-solving skills, enjoy thinking about abstract ideas and concepts, take pleasure in testing hypotheses and conducting experiments, and are able to solve complex, multi-step problems. Their great strength lies in analyzing these problems through mathematical or scientific operations. Career choices for logical-mathematical types include engineer, scientist, researcher, mathematician, programmer, and community planner.
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THANKS TO ALL OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEERS!
Next meeting (8:30am in the GREAT ROOM):
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for upcoming events.
Check the links below to sign up and lend a hand!
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Dungeons and Dragons Club - Next Session Starts February 20th.
- Thursdays, 4-5pm
- Beginning February 20th, 2025
- Each "campaign" runs 6 weeks
- $75 per campaign, and you get a set of polyhedral dice to keep!
- $40 additional one-time charge if you want your own Players Handbook to keep! (We will have copies for use during club time)
- Run by Jared Renfro (Science teacher), Andrew Buckner (Pahto parent), and Lisa Linderman (Director of Campus Operations)
- To enroll your student, please contact llinderman@gardnerschool.org.
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Tuesday-Thursday, February 18th-20th
K-6 Parent Conferences
Monday-Wednesday, February 24th-26th
Mazama Parent Conferences
Wednesday-Thursday, February 26th-27th
Tumtum Parent Conferences
Friday, February 25th
Gardner Market
Thursday, March 6th
School Picture Day
Friday, March 7th
Parent Coffee in the Farmhouse, 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday-Wednesday, March 10th-12th
Wy'East to Camp Gray
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