The Nantucket Lighthouse School
Hoe Down and Back to School News
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The Nantucket Lighthouse School invites you to kick up your heels at our Home Grown Hoe Down Saturday, September 27. Enjoy square dancing to nationally renowned Cliff Brodeur
and the Square One Band, authentic BBQ by Jimmy Perelman, unique live and silent
auctions, and mechanical bull rides. The event will take
place at the Lighthouse
School, 1 Rugged Road, from
7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Tickets are limited and may be reserved for $60 per
individual or $100 per couple by calling the Nantucket Lighthouse School at 508.228.0427.
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Hoe Down Live Auction
Sneak Peek
Esther's Island
Retreat
Spend three nights this fall or spring in an exquisite, green retreat situated
on ten secluded acres on Esther's Island.
Renovated by
Scout Capital to a gold LEED standard, with an interior designed
by Linda Woodrum, HGTV's Dream and Green House interior decorator, this one of
a kind vacation destination sleeps 6+.
Value: $6,000
Steamboat, Colorado Vacation
Enjoy seven nights in this 4 season resort town. Visit in the winter for world class skiing, spring for some fly-fishing and white water rafting, summer for hiking or hot air balloon rides in the mountains, and fall for big game hunting. This newly renovated 3-bedroom condo is right on the mountain, across the street from the gondola, complete with pool, hot tubs, and free shuttle into town in season.
Value: $3,000
 Costa Rican Riches
Kick back in Costa Rica with accommodations for four at this cozy poolside retreat. Costa Rica
is Central America's jewel. It's an oasis of
calm and an ecotourism heaven, making it one of the best places to experience
the tropics. It's also mostly coastline, which means great surfing, beaches
galore and a climate built for laziness. We'll send you on your way with surf lessons and round trip airfare to Boston.
Value: $3,000
Plus: Bathroom renovation package including plumbing, tiling, painting, glass and mirror, and artisan tile; David Lazarus painting; Night Out for Mom complete with hair, nails, makeup, dinner for two at your favorite restaurant and a babysitter; and more. Call us today to reserve your tickets to our Home Grown Hoe Down: 508-228-0427.
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A Lighthouse School Education
Dear Friends,
 We are often
asked to sum up what the Nantucket Lighthouse
School is in a nutshell.
This usually means coming up with a few brief statements that don't tell the
whole story:
The Lighthouse curriculum is
'developmentally appropriate.' This
simply means that ideas, information, and skills are introduced when children
are able to make sense of them. We look to the research concerning child
development and the human learning process and we build our curriculum from
there.
We teach traditional academic subjects in
a unique, meaningful and imaginative way. Studies are project-based. For instance, when the Kinderclass
studies the Native American Wampanoag tribe, they are stitching moccasins,
planting a Three Sisters garden, building model wetus, carving arrowheads, and
writing about what they learn. When the Upper Primary Class studies Martin
Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, they recreate and translate what
they have learned by creating an original slide show, writing, illustrating and
taping their own script. Story, art, and writing are integrated throughout the
academic curriculum. In other words, children are asked to be active learners,
continuously making information their own as they practice very basic and
traditional academic skills.
We teach the 'whole child'. We consider the social component of the
Lighthouse curriculum to be as important to an individual's education as the
academic subjects we teach. Each child is acknowledged, valued, and educated in
terms of his/her unique constellation of strengths, talents, and challenges.
The Golden Rule is one known to children throughout the school. From their very
first years at Lighthouse, children learn to express themselves both honestly
and respectfully, whether they are responding to a question in Circle or
negotiating a conflict. Children develop personal responsibility and
accountability in regards to their schoolwork and their behavior. Lighthouse School is a warm and supportive
community where children are respected and learn about themselves as well as
their responsibilities to others, to their community and to the Earth.
Most
importantly, we inspire, develop and
exercise the most essential human creative faculty, the imagination. The
imagination is fundamental to the ability to think, to empathize, to problem
solve, and to give form to that which does not yet exist. It is the bread and
butter of what we do as a school. Is anything more critical at this juncture?
This year, we
look forward to working with the Loring Foundation, the Nantucket Land Council
and Strong Wings Adventure
School on collaborative
science and environmental education curriculum projects. We continue our
partnership with the Nantucket Atheneum and the Nantucket Arts Council in
bringing this year's Lighthouse School
Storytelling Festival performers and educators to the island. This spring
the festival welcomes Richard Lewis, Founder and Director of the Touchstone Center. Whether it be to join us at our
Home Grown Hoe Down this Saturday, our festive Yuletide Fair, a storytelling workshop, or an Open House, we invite one
and all to come and see Lighthouse in action.
Lizbet Carroll
Fuller
Co-Founder/Director
of Education/Teacher
Nantucket Lighthouse
School
PS Our first Open House this year is taking place on Thursday, October 16, at 11:00 a.m. Join us!
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