tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22909288155721655592011-08-22T12:48:36.444-04:00For 94 years until its closing in June 2010, Oak Lane Day School's role in children's lives was to honor each child’s individuality and foster intellectual, creative, academic and personal growth within a diverse community of active, engaged learners. Oak Lane enjoyed a dynamic, creative, and nurturing community that promoted intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. We look forward to Oak Lane's legacy that will be carried on by alumni and their families for many years to come.Janet Easlea/Oak Lane Day Schoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09453219642092392244noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290928815572165559.post-26978509125579329892010-07-03T21:53:00.008-04:002010-07-04T22:07:29.207-04:00

The sixth grade class of 2010 enjoyed all the typical Oak Lane traditions in their June graduation ceremony that began and ended with processional and recessional music by the 4th/5th grades. The main event of the ceremony was the presentation by each sixth grader of their individual reflections of the school and teachers. These had been thoughtfully deliberated on through classroom discussions,

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Dan Brown '92, brought his camera and recorded his impressions of Oak Lane on a day we had set aside to celebrate everything good that has come from Oak Lane in this, its final year. Hope you enjoy! And thanks, Dan!

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WHAT A FABULOUS MOLD SYMPOSIUM DAY! Just before spring break, fourth grade students from Oak Lane Day School, Abington Friends School, Plymouth Meeting Friends School (PMFS) and William Penn Charter School congregated at PMFS to share the results of weeks of experiments and discoveries in growing mold.Each school shared a delightful mold song of its own creation, and individually-created mold

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On a Thursday in February, Judith Gratz and her fabulous volunteers from the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association came to Oak Lane to teach students about maple sugar. What a perfect day for this event! Through the creation of four different stations, children learned and participated in the maple sugar process. At one station they saw a maple tree tapped for sap. At a second station

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OVER 70 PEOPLE ATTENDED the February lasagna dinner sponsored by the sixth grade, which raised nearly $1,400 for UNICEF in support of Haitian relief efforts. Diners were treated not only to a delicious meal, but also to a wealth of information provided by their sixth grade hosts regarding earthquakes, the history of Haiti, and the complexity of dealing with a natural disaster in a country with no

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OUR 2ND AND 3RD GRADERS wrapped up their Dance Residency in January, and shared the culmination of their experience with friends and family in an evening performance. The kids were terrific: not only did they learn about dance, but they also learned the importance of listening, following directions and working together, to imagine and create. They also had a lot of fun!

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As of November 5, 2009, Karl Welsh has stepped down as head of Oak Lane Day School after serving the school community in this capacity since July 1999. A hallmark of Karl's tenure has been his care of the physical plant, with significant improvements in the Perch Hankin Building and the Barn, and with special care of the grounds. Karl led the Tribute Campaign that raised funds to build our

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The Board of Trustees recently made the decision to close the school at the end of June 2010. The past several years of declining enrollment and the current economic climate forced the school to sell the land on which it stands in the spring of 2009. In the months that followed, Board members, faculty and staff worked diligently to secure a new location and explore the possibility of Oak Lane

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See us in the Weaver's Way "Shuttle" in the May edition!Click on the link below and go to page 25 --http://weaversway.coop/uploads/File/SHUTTLE2009-05b.pdf

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ON THIS PAST SUNDAY, APRIL 5TH, the Cutler Gymnasium was filled with the spirit of music, art and the Oak Lane community. Nearly 90 people, including current and former families and faculty, alumni of various generations dating back to the 60's and their families, Board members, and family and friends of the Mednicks', gathered for an afternoon of music and art, in memory of Anita and in honor of

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EACH WEEKDAY MORNING I PARK MY CAR and walk through part of our beautiful campus to the main building of our school. It always feels good to be here. Why is that? Well, to begin with, our grounds, which change in appearance seasonally, are beautiful, and I am always greeted with a smile and kind or funny remark by Ray. Perhaps I should just allow these gratifying feelings to exist without any

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Imagine, summer at Oak Lane!Art, swimming, archery, drama, music, cooking, rocketry, science and nature exploration and many, many other fun activities are waiting for summer to arrive when The Camp at Oak Lane Day School will be in full swing.If you value the importance of childhood, the arts, friendship and fun, you found the right place!For parents with children ages 3-12, we invite you to

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My first experience of Oak Lane was as a parent, when my son Jhamir entered Allen Garner's class last year as a third grader. For the first time, Jhamir actually loved going to school.He couldn't wait to get there each morning and was crestfallen every afternoon when we collected him at the extended day program. One typically imagines a child's first year at a new school as a source of parental

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It occurred to me the other day that, as a community, you might not know about all of the "earth-friendly" practices that are taking place at Oak Lane Day School.You might know that we are composting lunch and snack scraps. You might know that we plant and nurture native plants, and remove and discourage invasive plants. You also might know that we have a sustainable garden that uses the compost

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THIS SNOWY, JANUARY DAY has my mind turning towards our sustainable garden at Oak Lane. If you are not familiar with our garden activities, here’s an update: The rain barrel has been put away for the winter (so it doesn't freeze!); the compost pile is constantly being added to and is decomposing (Oak Lane has diverted over 300 pounds of food scraps from trash cans to the compost pile already this

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THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE of this year's Martin Luther King Day resonated in many hearts, including mine. Forty-five years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and proclaimed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." One day after

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LONG AGO STORIES, stories that teach a lesson, myths, tall tales, folk tales, and fairy tales have all been passed down for ages, by word of mouth, from grandparents to parents to children, since before time began. Stories always have a part in Winterlude, and reading, writing, and telling stories is a component of every grade at Oak Lane, but our immersion in the world of Long Ago Stories has

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"I FOUND HIM, I FOUND HIM, he's alive, the boy from The Secret Seder!" These are the words that celebrated children's author Doreen Rappaport ran screaming to her husband after receiving an email from Oak Lane Day School music teacher Marlis Kraft-Zemel. This email informed her that the narrator and central character of her book, The Secret Seder, was veteran Oak Lane art teacher of almost fifty

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IMAGINE THIS - powering your hair dryer or radio while riding a bicycle! Farfetched? Not really, as the 4th-6th grade students at Oak Lane Day School recently discovered in science class. As explained by science teacher Dottie Baumgarten, "the science curriculum this fall, which is focusing on sustainability, is geared towards having the students choose something that impacts their environment in

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