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Newark private schools find creative ways to reopen this fall
August 31, 2020As the Christina School District plans for online learning through at least mid-October, several local private schools are finding creative ways to bring at least some students back into classrooms. The University of Delaware Lab School, an early learn …
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Get Moving
June 16, 2020UD interns host virtual children’s exercise party Did you know there is an international event to help kids get their wiggles out? Every year on the first Wednesday of May, millions of children across the world participate in Project ACES, which stands …
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UD Lab School Shifts to Virtual Learning
May 1, 2020Serving children ages six months to six years, the Lab School helps UD students learn to teach Young children thrive off routine. The daily rhythms of group time and singalongs may seem like child’s play, but activities like these, conducted in classro …
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Now Enrolling 2020 Play & Grow Together
January 3, 2020We are now enrolling for the Winter/Spring 2020 Play & Grow Together program. This is a 12 week program with sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays designed for infants from 6-24 months and a caregiver. Tuesday, 9:15-10:45 am – February 18 – May 12, 20 …
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Fire Safety Demonstration Day
November 5, 2019The children at the Lab School had a visit from some special guests today. Firefighters Dam and Leo from Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Fire Company shared an informative demonstration about fire safety. The program was coordinated by the UD Health & …
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Edible Forest Garden
June 24, 2019UD students learn and help staff teach children where food comes from On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. …
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Teaching with Bird Houses
May 14, 2019Early childhood education and engineering majors collaborate to build bird nesting boxes On a chilly morning recently at the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus, a few dozen children — guided by undergraduates — took hold of screwdrivers to buil …
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Engineering for Fun
September 20, 2018Students design and build toys, pitch to Melissa and Doug representatives Engineering students at the University of Delaware recently pitched their own inventions to representatives from a major toy company. A trio of professionals from Melissa and Dou …
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Delaware Biotechnology Institute Family Night Promotes Science Education
June 29, 2018UD’s College School and Lab School join drugmaker AstraZeneca at the event The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), in partnership with AstraZeneca and the University of Delaware’s College School and Lab School, hosted a Family STEAM (science, techn …
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UD Lab School centers on outdoor learning
May 30, 2018Children in the Nature Preschool class spend most of each morning in the woods, wetlands, a meadow and stream adjacent to the UD Lab School building. The curriculum, developed by Master Teacher Katie Pollock and her staff, will address all of the liter …
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