This newsletter offers a peek into the experiential, creative, and joyful

moments captured on the Crane campus over the course of a week.

It is just a glimpse of the magic that happens daily. Enjoy!

November 15, 2022

Lower School

(kindergarten - fifth grade)

The Downtown District was hopping last week as second grade business owners opened their stores. Family members, Staffulty, and fellow students shopped for pet supplies, plants, sports equipment, and more. Like true entrepreneurs, second graders put heart, sweat, time, and much creativity into writing business plans, opening their stores, and counting their earnings.

Bravo, Second graders!

Upper School

(sixth - eighth grade)

This year's all-school art theme, "Beyond Limits!" has allowed students to collaborate with the science department and follow the exciting technological advances and observations being made in space as well as look at this theme through artistic eyes.

Seventh and eighth graders collaborated to create three murals. Eighth graders painted the backgrounds and seventh graders added invented space objects out of colored paper.

Crane Values in Action

Each of our students is capable of anything, but that only matters if they know it and believe it about themselves. Learning in a safe and supportive environment allows our students to try new things while knowing that failure is an essential step on the path to success, building confidence through ongoing creativity and curiosity.

First graders are finding out that fables can teach us about the Crane values. As they read various versions of the classic story, The Tortoise and The Hare, students added "confidence" to their Fable Vocabulary Word Wall and made text-to-self connections by thinking about times when they have been confident like the tortoise or overly-confident like the hare.

As Seen on Social Media

(click the image to see the post on Instagram)

Crane in the the Santa Barbara Independent

Direct link to the article: https://www.independent.com/2022/11/09/making-values-into-actions/