Kenny School, located right next to Kenny Park, has a new playground, an outdoor classroom, and an expansive, award winning garden. Our building is wonderfully suited to serving K-5 children with its design and accessability, and it even accommodates a childcare program for four-year olds in its west wing (Fours Explore). Bright, brand-new windows shed a pleasant light in our classrooms. Large Kindergarten rooms appropriately accommodate our younger learners, allowing a variety of simultaneous activities. Our Media/Technology Resource Center, which opened in 2001, offers technology as both a means to deliver instruction and as a curriculum in itself. Anthony Middle School is just up the hill, where former Kenny students continue their learning in familiar surroundings.

Grounds

• 20 acres of parkland with over 300 trees of more than 30 different species
• students convene in the shade of a tremendous sugar maple
• Endless opportunities for exploring literature, environmental studies, and scientific experiments!

Gardens

• Wildlife habitat garden influenced by Japanese gardening techniques
• Annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, bulbs, ornamental grasses, trees, shrubs, bridges, benches, sculpture
• Dry creek keeps schools water runoff on site
• Bird feeding station attracting songbirds, birds of prey, and is even visited by a wild turkey!
• Annual monarch butterfly release

Grass Lake
 

• Hike to nearby, protected, 27 acre wetland bordered by perennial gardens
• University of Minnesota and Fisheries and Wildlife Department (wetland bird foraging study)
• Audobon Society birdwatching, typically 100 different species visit over the course of a year
• Turtles, fox, bald eagles
• shoreland restoration partnership with Minneapolis Park Board Forestry Department (buckthorn removel)
• Earth Day Activities