This week we started our Science unit on Simple Machines. Yesterday the students learned the concepts of force, work, distance, and lift by experimenting with various household objects–including a wall! We lifted books, pushed chairs, and did other work with simple machine knowledge. We’re also working on integers, cubing binomials, forming decimals, and squaring. Students...Read More

This week we studied contractions for Word Study. The students are learning how to write words as contractions and go from a contraction to two separate words.  We continue to explore Simple Machines for Science and the Western States for Geography. Next week, the 2nd year students will have a separate lesson on the Western...Read More

This week we continued with our Colonial America simulation. In Science, we began our study of simple machines with the definition of work (W=FxD). In Writing, students are working on memoirs. In math, students work on square roots, fractions, and decimals. Finally, in Language, students are working on adverbial modifiers and types of adjectives. We...Read More

This week we celebrated the first day of Spring by making dirt pudding!  The kindergarten students prepared chocolate pudding; each child used a mortar and pestle to crush cookies to make “dirt.”  We used our practical life tonging skills to add gummy worms on top.  On the art shelf, we added spring cutting activities as...Read More

This week we studied contractions for Word Study. The students are learning how to write words as contractions and go from a contraction to two separate words.  We continue to explore Simple Machines for Science and the Western States for Geography. Next week, the 2nd year students will have a separate lesson on the Western...Read More

Happy Spring! We celebrated the first day of Spring by making dirt pudding with worms! Children helped make chocolate pudding, crushed Oreo cookies, and tonged worms. We also had many new units this week! We are learning about the human body in science and money in math. Human body study includes learning about our organs,...Read More

  This week brought on many St. Patrick’s Day-themed works! We had a green-themed sensory bowl, sponge-painted a stencil Irish hat, and used a straw with paint to “blow” paint on a shamrock. In Practical Life, we continued learning about tools as we learned about using the ratchet and screwdriver. We also used tools such...Read More

Only a couple of months of the school year are left, and still many units for the students to be presented with and explore! This week students were given new history lessons. Students were presented with the unit over U.S. presidents. Students will be learning about different presidents, such as Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow...Read More

  This week we celebrated Pi Day! As many of you know, the number is infinite and non-repeating, so we had plenty and plenty of activities to do. Each activity represented a part of our normal curriculum (Language, math, geometry etc.). Students constructed Pi number lines by measuring the circumference of various circular objects. Students...Read More

Only a couple of months of the school year are left, and still many units for the students to be presented with and explore! This week students were given new history lessons. Students were given a lesson on Famous Americans. As this history unit is out, students will have the opportunity to learn about different...Read More