■ Students will arrive on the first day of school to a newly renovated Hamilton International Middle School. photo/HALLIE GOLDEN
From state-of-the-art classroom technology to lockers organized by grade, when school begins in a few weeks, Wallingford’s Hamilton International Middle School will have transformed as one of the newly reconstructed Seattle Public School buildings. However, as with any change, there were compromises made. Wednesday, August 18, 2010
On a trail at the edge of the wetlands in Magnuson Park, the pristine face of the Pacific Northwest is in bloom. Madronas freckle the landscape, and the wild Nootka roses blush while flickers, robins and sparrows zip through the blackberry bristles. A group of teens armed with pickaxes, loppers and shovels surround a growing pile of blackberry bushes. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The goat phenomenon in Seattle is nothing new, but still, people are amazed to see nature’s weed whackers in their neighborhoods. In mid-May, Tammy Dunakin of Rent-A-Ruminant of Vashon Island and 15 of her goats paid a visit to the bramble patch behind St. John School in Greenwood.
With his class of fourth-graders hard at work in preparation for the upcoming MSP test, Northgate Elementary School teacher Zac Stowell wanted to do something for his students that would both motivate and reward them. Thursday, June 03, 2010
After a year of creative-writing instruction from professional writers in the Seattle Arts & Lectures’ (SAL) Writers in Schools program, 40 area students will read their original poems and stories Wednesday, May 26, and May 27 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. Thursday, May 20, 2010
