By Alyssa Castellini, 3rd Grade/STEM Teacher, and Jacquelyn Thomason, Pre-K Teacher, Woodstock Elementary School We teach at opposite ends of the building, one of us with three- and four-year-olds, the other with third graders, but this year our two classes ended up sharing one story. It starts on a hillside on Mount Peg, where our preschoolers hike every Friday for what they call Forest Fridays. Their favorite thing to do up there, without question, is slide down the hill on

Scott Ellis has infectious enthusiasm for getting outside to learn and explore in nature. He taught at the Cardigan Mt. School in Canaan, NH, the Greenwood School in Putney, VT, the Keystone Science school in Keystone, CO, and the Daniel Webster Council Boy Scouts of America. And Scott was recently hired to launch and lead the new Thetford Outdoor Program at Thetford Academy (TA). The mission of the new Thetford Outdoor Program is to ignite academic curiosity and foster env