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Wood Shop & Sugar Shack
Christopher Lawler, Woodshop Teacher
“What I love most is watching them learn from nature and actually learn how to make something from nature.”
Sugar + Wood =
Hands-on Learning
Our school sits on land that was once a working farm. We believe kids benefit from hands-on learning, and draw from that history.
Woodshop begins in Grade 3. Students learn how to use hand and power tools and study design principles as they make beautiful and useful wooden projects. Middle schoolers participate in the visual arts, Woodshop, Maker Lab and drama. In the Upper School, seventh graders continue building upon fine art and craftsmanship as part of the whole-grade creative arts foundations course.
The Sugar Shack provides another way for students to learn real skills in a compelling way. Each winter, students in Beginners–Grade 9 collect maple sap and boil it down to syrup here. The unit combines science, history and math. Students learn about the physiology of trees, how to use the proper equipment and how to calculate density and temperature.
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New Canaan Country School
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New Canaan Country School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and are afforded all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, or disability in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, financial aid policies or any other school-administered programs.