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The Lower School Classrooms at Brooksfield School are beginning to look festive!  One 3 to 6 year old classroom is studying Kwanzaa.  They had fun lighting the candles on the Kinara and celebrating the seven principles like unity (umoja) and faith (imani).  They even made their own Kinara to hang up in the classroom!  In…

The Lower School classrooms at Brooksfield School are alive with activity!  For the Artist of the Month, one preschool classroom is studying Claude Monet.  He was from Paris and lived more than 150 years ago.  He painted in the style called impressionism.  He loved to paint outside.  One child even commented, “He made that painting…

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Brenda Kouyoumdjian Virginia Master Gardeners are volunteer educators who work within their communities to encourage and promote environmentally sound horticulture practices through sustainable landscape management education and training.  As an educational program of Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Master Gardeners bring the resources of Virginia’s land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, to the people of…

  Organic Gardening tips from the students at the Brooksfield School: The students at the Brooksfield School, a private Montessori School located in McLean, Virginia, worked and toiled in the campus gardens this week.  If you are gardening this fall remember garlic can be planted now!  Fall is also a great time to prepare the…