The Shader Croft School

Turning Student Selected Real World Adventures into Stronger Reading, Writing, and Communication Skills.

Day-20: Shader Croft School At WMS 2015

  This land is your land . . . The time has come to say goodbye!  It is bittersweet every year to say goodbye to our Shader Croft family.  We will miss everyone who is leaving us today and we can’t wait to see them again next summer.   One of my favorite...

Day-19: Shader Croft School At WMS 2015

  Get into the groove!   The trips yesterday and today have been all about the fun!  Yesterday the crew hit the Ben & Jerry’s factory and loaded up on some sweets.  Today the gang paid a visit to Skateland in Essex.  After we were all exhausted...

Day-18: Shader Croft School At WMS 2015

  Lifetime Friends One of the best things about Shader Croft is the network one may build within a single summer.  Unlike most teaching environments, SCS attracts staff from all over the world who posses a multitude of talents.  A successful Shader Croft...

Camp Ethan Allen Training Site

This week we visited the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site because Ben is interested in robots. His dad Les Urban showed us a robot, the parts of an IED, Army vehicles and VBS3, a battlefield simulation program. We learned that an IED needs a trigger, main charge, power...

Vermont Institute of Natural Science

       Last Thursday we visited VINS in Woodstock. VINS stands for the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. This was Dylan’s trip because he’s very interested in nature and animals. Here are some of the things we learned and experienced: – A raptor is a...