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Month: April 2020
President’s Notes: Safety and Program Update
To the Chewonki community, For over five weeks Chewonki Neck has been empty of students while spring has slowly pushed winter aside. Birds are singing, grass is greening, and the first gardens have been plowed on the farm. Those seasonal changes are so familiar, but the quiet without students is certainly not what we expect …
Covid-19 Update from Chewonki
For over five weeks Chewonki Neck has been empty of students while spring has slowly pushed winter aside. Birds are singing, grass is greening, and the first gardens have been plowed on the farm. Those seasonal changes are so familiar, but the quiet without students is certainly not what we expect at this time of …
Distinctive “Apple Moss” Spotted on West Shore of Chewonki Neck
Natural History Faculty, Eric McIntyre, made a surprising observation last week while walking on Chewonki Neck: a colony of moss featuring slim, protruding orange stalks topped with tiny, lime-like globes. “I’ve only knowingly come across this moss one time before, but it jumped out again last week on a rambling run through the forest and along …
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Faculty Featured in Maine’s Bicentennial Curriculum Initiative
We are proud to announce that a lesson plan created by our visual arts specialist, Coreysha Stone, has been included in Maine’s Bicentennial Curriculum Initiative. The project, called “Maine’s Beneficial Bugs: Insect Sculpture Upcycle/Recycle S.T.E.A.M. Challenge,” was the first remote art lesson completed by Chewonki fifth and sixth graders at the end of March and …
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Izzy Janzen: Finding Her Way to Waypoint
Izzy Janzen joined the Chewonki Waypoint Program in September as the leader of the third cohort of Regional School Unit 1 (RSU 1) students to participate in this experimental program. Janzen is leading the seventh-grade cohort this year in extra-curricular activities designed to support them and help them develop high expectations of themselves. Janzen works …
As the Crow Flies
Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program educators are looking forward to giving people a greater appreciation for American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) with the help of our two new resident crows, A and Z (proper names to come). They arrived at Chewonki from a Verona, Pennsylvania, wildlife rehabilitation center, where both were delivered as hatch-year birds in …
A Whale of a (Skeleton) Tale!
Join Chewonki wildlife educator Jess Woodend to learn all about the skeletons of the largest animals on our planet: whales!