This week we attended a stunning performance at the Coterie Theatre – The White Rose: We Defied Hitler. This play is based on the case of Sophie Scholl, a German student who openly defied Hitler by working on a publication…
Welcome to 2020! We started off the new year with a fresh theme (snow) and a fun team building project – story building! We put together a list of snowy ideas, then printed them off and put them into a…
This week’s field trip found us braving the polar vortex and sub-zero temperatures for a performance of “Secret Soldiers” at the Coterie Theatre. The show is about the hidden history of women who fought disguised as men during the Civil…
We celebrated Halloween with our annual party full of food, games and trick or treat walk. It was a fun and busy morning as the kids decorated goody bags, competed in various games, wrapped each other up as mummies, showed…
image courtesy of Theatre for Young America website This week we rocked out to Chicken Little: The Musical, presented at Theatre for Young America in Union Station. This performance took the original children’s story and gave it a modern, musical…
image courtesy of Louisburg Cider Mill We celebrated the amazing fall weather with a visit to Louisburg Cider Mill to enjoy their freshly made doughnuts and cider, the pumpkin patch and play area. While the recent rains and flooding made…
We visited Kauffman Center for the 2018 Young People’s Concert: Composing a Story. This performance focused on how authors create stories with words, while composers create stories with music. Just like authors, composers use setting, mood, the dichotomy between hero…
image courtesy of Coterie Theatre website This week we visited the Coterie Theatre for the world premiere of “Becoming Martin,” a play about young Martin Luther King, Jr. The play is a Coterie commissioned work by noted filmmaker, screenwriter, director,…
image courtesy of Dinosaurs Revealed This week we went to Union Station for the Dinosaurs Revealed exhibit and an afternoon at Science City. The exhibit featured a combination of 26 life-size animatronic dinosaurs, models of dinosaurs dig sites, a hands-on…
A group of our students traveled to Blue Springs for a two-day session for homeschoolers of School of Economics, presented by the Blue Springs school district. The School of Economics is set up like a small international marketplace. Each region…
