recent posts
- October 29, Sukhomlynsky describes the need for joy in early childhood education
- October 24: How we started to design the Longhouse Outdoors oven
- November 1, 2025: Glimpses of one week of volunteering through the eyes of one high school student
- October 25, 2025. An exemplary student
- October 24, 2025: Learning Group Processing Skills and Project-Based Learning
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This post is written by Heidi (AKA Kitten). We never have to worry about an unexciting dinner when Lori is with us! She’s the type of child who believes what she thinks and says is important and she needs to be heard out. Hallelujah to that spirit! I learn from her! “Did you know that…
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12:00pm, Lolita, in front of the Dewey House, watching the kids play during recess. I’m not “on duty”—just observing “recess” for the pure pleasure! Finally finished and posted at 4:00 p.m. I love our kids!!! They are so smart, beautiful, inquisitive, and sincere. I could include a dozen other suitable adjectives. May their smiles never…
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This post is written by Guy, our Longhouse School Co-Director and one of the Park’s owners. Yesterday started off as a kind of write-off day. Everyone had stayed up late to watch the Bills-Raven game on Sunday night. Me, too! It was such a great game with the Bills coming alive in the final quarter…
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We’ve been in a lot of back-and-forth discussions about whether or not to keep the two classes (12 first graders, 12 second graders) together as one mixed-graded group of 24. Well, today we think we stumbled on a novel solution. While the weather is still nice, we will take the kids to the pool but…
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Consider this a Part Two to my prior post. Yesterday I huddled for a long time with Guy and Bernie (my lead teachers). We started by reflecting on the sleepover at Letchworth State Park. It had been off-and-on, chilly and wet. So we sat bundled up on the porch and just listened to the sounds of…
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My ESU mentor has my running permission to read and comment on my posts at the Longhouseschool.blog. I also email her additional short essays that explain our work more fully. In turn, she has given me permission to quote her emails to me as well as to paraphrase the one-on-one conversations we have. She was…
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Lolita I am always amazed by how much I had missed in my earlier readings of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky’s My Heart I Give to Children. It was on Monday night when I reread the section “Nature—the source of health” (p. 54). How did I forget all this when we were blocking out the first few days of school?…
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Our Planning Group is having so much fun getting ready for the opening of the new school year. Our big task for the week is just to plan out a single day for both the first and second grade classes. We are looking at the day through many lenses: curriculum, state standards, state of the…
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I am always amazed by how much I had missed in my earlier reading of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky’s My Heart I Give to Children. It was on Monday night when I reread the section “Nature—the source of health” (p. 54). How did I forget all this when our Team was blocking out the first few days…
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By Anita, Heidi, Lolita, Michael S1, E1: “Sitting Down with the Creators” An open discussion with Heidi, Lolita, and Michael, high school “rising” seniors and former campers and staff members at the RV Park Day Camp. All three of us are best described as “non-traditional learners.” Joining us is Anita is Michael’s mom—and a veteran…
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