Our Lower School students participated in the international “Hour Of Code” last December. GSA has been participating in this program for several years and we enjoy the materials provided at www.hourofcode.org. Since the international Hour of Code is only one hour long, we don’t get a chance to look at all of the coding options […]

These kids rock! Evan and Julian are 7th graders at Garden Street Academy. They’ve been working on their own songs before/after school under the guidance of our Music Director, Ian Putnam. They wanted to lay this track down in our recording studio, so we setup some iPads to video their session. Ray, a senior stuck […]

Last Friday the 2nd-5th graders received a visit from the Santa Barbara Symphony Music Van, which is a mobile music studio full of orchestra instruments. The docents for the Music Van, including our very own GSA parent Andy Radford, introduced the students to the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instrument families. The docents demonstrated each instrument, highlighting the variation in […]

The 6th grade Technology class is beginning their unit on 3D printing and design this trimester. The overarching goal is to design their own wind turbine blades. Students will print and test how well their designs capture wind energy from a large fan. They will do this several times, trying to improve the performance of […]

For the past month and a half, the Upper Painting class has been consumed with the object of painting their own portraits. The process, though lengthy and trying, has turned out some rather catching pieces. With a raw cotton canvas roughly twenty by eighteen inches and a digitally manipulated photo of themselves, students began it all […]

The K/1 class studied a science unit on Trees this fall. They observed and compared trees on campus and identified the parts of a tree, learned the similarities and differences of trees and helped plant and care for a live tree in the classroom. They also studied leaves and compared size, shape, texture, and colors […]

Check out the Mannequin Challenge we filmed as a preview for our school’s Open House on January 28th, 2017. It was a nice way to bring our students and staff together on our last day before Thanksgiving break. The Open House begins at 10:00AM. Parents and students alike are welcome to visit our campus and get […]

Last Friday, our botany and biology classes were visited by Kelton Temby, an entrepreneur, engineer, and the Director of the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association. Kelton has merged his engineering background with a childhood passion for bees to create a new approach to monitoring the health of bee hives, called “EyesOnHives.” He showed our students video […]

The 4th-8th grade classes had a fantastic field trip to the Reagan Presidential Library last week. Students were able to get an inside peek at Reagan’s life and legacy as an influential president. They walked through Air Force One, touched a piece of the Berlin Wall, and took a stroll through a replica of Reagan’s […]

Twenty years ago, the idea was conceived to establish a small, innovative school that would be an intellectually, emotionally and physically safe space for kids to follow their passions. Fifteen years ago, that idea sprung to life as our first community of learners came together to embark on an exciting journey of living and learning. […]