Month: September 2019

Join Chewonki alumni, participants, families, staff and faculty for a meetup at the Common Ground Fair in Unity Maine on Saturday, September 20, 2019. We will assemble near the stone sundial in the center of the fairgrounds at 12 noon. Please join us and say hello! If you miss the meetup, there will still be …

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Maine Coast Semester students visited Pemaquid Point for science field lab earlier this week. They explored Maine’s rocky intertidal zone, learned to identify species and draw an ecological site map in their field journals.

As we roll into September, Chewonki is feeling the full shift in the seasons: dry air, cool nights, and the return of our Outdoor Classroom programs. This week, we have a “full house” on Chewonki Neck with more than 150 students attending from four schools, Applewild School, Friends Academy,  The Pennfield School, and Providence Country …

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This summer, Chewonki traveled all over the state of Maine visiting libraries that were participating in a shared reading theme “A universe of Stories”, and bringing our new portable planetarium (known as the StarLab) with us to reveal the nighttime sky to curious observers.  We taught about planets, the moon, the stars and their patterns, …

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Semester 63 jumped into their first week at Chewonki with both feet (and hands). Their arrived on campus coincided with the annual potato and onion harvest on Salt Marsh Farm, and “all hands” were on call to help bring in the spuds.