Sara Mooney (page 8)

Though present conditions threaten to shake our nation’s resolve, moral character and civic virtue will persevere.  Ivywood students, along with students from other Barney Charter School Initiative classical schools, demonstrate what it means to learn the true, know the good,…

One week is not enough time to let our Ivywood Classical Academy teachers know how much we appreciate all that they do for our students!  Their dedication and passion for teaching Ivywood’s virtues-based, content-rich, classical education is seen in everything…

Ivywood is not only teaching our students through distance learning, we are also helping in their mental well being.  Just this past week, we started doing weekly virtual play dates to help our students connect with their classmates, share stories,…

Painting re-creations are happening all over social media these days as people stay home.  Our very own Ivywood Art teacher, Ms. Mason, decided to join in the fun with our 4th graders.  Our 4th graders were assigned the task of recreating…

Our 3rd graders celebrated Earth Day this week by creating robots out of recycled materials. After creating their robots, the students then had to write about their robots, giving them a name, explain their function and why consumers would want…

Ivywood Classical Academy is supporting local area hospitals, who are battling COVID-19, with some much needed kindness and love.  Students and families are making hearts/messages which can be put up on hospital walls to brighten the days of healthcare workers and…

To say that our teachers are incredible just won’t be enough to describe them!  Since Michigan schools have closed, due to COVID-19, our teachers have been working hard to continually provide Ivywood students with learning opportunities.  Our teachers have taken…

This Ivywood parent was disappointed that she was not going to be able to be a Mystery Reader for her daughter’s class since schools are closed.  She decided if the students’ homes are their classrooms right now, then she could…

Mrs. Adkins 1st graders are not letting something like a school closure stop them from learning the 13 Colonies.  Many of the students are taking this time to map out each of the 13 colonies and/or learn a song about…

We asked Ivywood parents what their experience has been continuing the learning process at home and this is what they had to say!  Parent experience #1  Ivywood’s Virtues have become life lessons for us these past few days in our…