Bowling Green Rotary Club member, Antonn Smeltzer, presented personal dictionaries to our third-year students. These paperback dictionaries are for the students to keep and encourage developing their literacy. This is a project the club does each year for our third-year students. We prepare a feast for lunch each year to celebrate the Thanksgiving...Read More

The students are learning about ways to identify leaves based on the leaf type (simple, simple-lobed, or compound), leaf vein and leaf margin (toothed, wavy, or smooth).  Our Word Study shelf is focusing on synonyms. We are learning that synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning. The students are practicing finding these words in their...Read More

  This week our new History lesson stems from the Second Great Lesson, The Coming of Life. In this new unit, students can explore the different eras; Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and more. On the shelf, students can examine works about the Timeline of Life and discover various fossils. Students will match these fossils with their...Read More

Our students are learning ways to identify leaves based on the leaf type (Simple, Simple-lobed, or Compound), Leaf vein, and leaf margin (Toothed, wavy, or smooth). Our Word Study shelf is focused on synonyms. Students are learning that synonyms are words that have almost the same meaning. They also practiced finding these words in their...Read More

This week our new History lesson stems from the Second Great Lesson, The Coming of Life. In this new unit, students can explore the different eras; Cenozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and more. On the shelf, students can examine works about the Timeline of Life and discover various fossils. Students will match these fossils with their eras...Read More

  Thank you for meeting with us last week during conferences. It is so important to us to keep communication open for your children’s needs and education. If you still need to, please be sure to send back work notebooks or Writer’s Workshop folders.  This week we introduced our Fish unit for Zoology studies as...Read More

A lot has happened in the past two months within our classroom communities. The students have learned so much already, and normalization within the classrooms has begun. This week students were presented with new math and language lessons. On the math unit shelf,  children could start exploring work on expanded notation. Some of the works...Read More

  Practical Life activities are for the children to learn everyday life skills.  In the Lower Elementary rooms, students apply what they learned in the Early Childhood classrooms and take care of their environment with classroom jobs.  The classroom jobs/responsibilities are chosen by each child and change bi-weekly.  Examples of jobs include table washers, trash helpers,...Read More

Fall is here! With the weather change and the attempt to get students outside as much as possible, please check the weather every morning before school. In past years, some families have found it helpful to keep a pair of waterproof boots at school throughout the week.   We will be going outside even in a...Read More

    This week we expanded on our grammar lessons. We gave a whole group lesson on articles. While this was a review for some, it was a new lesson to others. Articles include the words the, a and an. On our grammar shelf, students are able to choose activities that include matching a noun word...Read More