Friends School of Minnesota is a K-8 progressive education school grounded in Quaker values. FSMN was founded in 1988 and is located in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, convenient to South Minneapolis. We are a diverse community with students from a broad range of religious and non-religious backgrounds, including ten percent from Quaker families.
For many families and students the start of school really is a homecoming after a summer away. This transition can feel like a blessed return to structure and routine, but it can also be difficult to shift out of summer habits and routines. As always, we are here to celebrate this return with our families […] Read more
This year I have witnessed this exploration of community by driving the bus on the field trips that support the Prairie and Forest classrooms’ community unit. First and second graders exploring how communities work at such depth is truly astonishing. Committees Brainstorm Possible Field TripsFirst our grade 1/2 students divided themselves into committees for health […] Read more
FSMN is committed to hands-on, experiential learning. This hands-on learning is impactful, and allows students to connect their learning with something real, as opposed to a virtual dissection or pictures. The discovery and learning bridges the human body system unit to the evolution unit, as students compare the human organs to the rats organs and […] Read more
A Visit From A LibrarianAfter topics were chosen and thesis statements were written and approved, Mike and Chrissy, FSMN’s humanities teachers, invited a librarian from the U of M’s Wilson Library to come in to teach our students how to find sources on the U’s library catalog and on ELibrary Minnesota. A Field Trip To […] Read more
