Everyone in Jennifer’s homeroom who was able to get to school by 5:30 this morning had an adventure they’ll remember all their lives — a ride in a hot air balloon!     Big thanks to Patrick’s family, who provides hot air balloon rides as Southern Arizona Balloon Excursions!

Inside balloon before the flight

After [...]

Aidan's dragon

Nick demonstrates his gigantic puppet

Don't drink the ecosystem

Wyatt shows off his bowl

A passionate interlude from the drama group's performance of "The Real Inspector Hound"

Libby says some of the kids decided to surprise Butterscotch with a newly decorated chicken coop, but she is so curious she keeps trying to sneak in to see what is going on.

Meanwhile, Charlie is getting help planting a new palo verde tree. [...]

Last week nine Kino students and two chaperons made their way to the Chiricahua Mountains for the annual writer’s retreat. Vanessa has  been giving high school students  interested in creative writing the opportunity to go on a  four-day-long retreat for  three years now, and they were  a feature of Chris’s and Felice’s  creative writing classes [...]

Howling at the moon

The day before rodeo vacation is always special for Kino primary students because it’s the day of the rodeo cookout. Students stay at school until seven o’clock. Under the palo verde trees as the sun goes down they do a little square dancing and a little roping, and [...]

It’s just a typical day at Kino, riding an elephant, and going up in the rigging of a pirate’s ship.

That is, when the typical day includes a trip to the Renaissance Faire.

Author Eleanor Davis talks about Kino in an interview here.