This week the lower classrooms added a fun art activity to go alongside our Antarctica/Polar Region Unit. Lower North is painting a polar bear and Lower South is creating an orca. We are continuing our unit on flags, but have narrowed the focus to the United States of America Flag. With this unit the students...Read More

In lieu of the winter season, students this week were given new geography lessons. In Lower North, children are exploring the Arctic and Polar Regions. During this unit, they will be learning about different Arctic animals as well as the physical features of the Arctic by studying a map of the area. Students will also...Read More

As our month of January continues and nears the end, many of our students are well-established and know the routine of the classroom.  We hope you saw this during your visit on Thursday at Curriculum Night.  If you were not able to join us, please take some time to visit during a school day and...Read More

    We hope everyone enjoyed their three-day weekend.  It made our work week shorter, but we have plenty of new cultural work to keep us busy.  The children are excited! On Tuesday, your child began studying a new vertebrate in zoology, the bird.  The initial lesson involves the use of a stuffed duck and each part...Read More

We have introduced the Tangrams to our students. Tangrams consist of 7 flat polygons, called Tans, that are put together to form shapes. The goal is to copy a pattern given without overlapping the pieces. Puzzles are great brain work. On our Geography shelf, we have extended our biome activities by adding our maps. We...Read More

Happy Holidays! This week we have been talking about different holidays that are celebrated around the world.  We have talked about St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah, Poinsettia Day, and St.Lucia Day.  The students have enjoyed learning more about these holidays! New work in the classroom this week, (yes, we continue doing work the week before school is...Read More

On Wednesday, the Wood County Hospital Wellness Program brought a 7-foot, overstuffed, blue haired doll to our school to kick off our science units on the Circulatory System and the Respiratory System.  Stuffee turns “inside out” to reveal all the major abdominal organs.  On the shelf, students are learning how the body works. Some of the...Read More

Welcome back. We hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving break! We are back into the swing of things here in the classroom. For our Language work, we have added antonyms to the synonym work on our Word Study shelf. For the Writer’s Workshop, we are beginning opinion writing. Our students are exploring Biomes for our...Read More

This week students were introduced to new word study units. One new unit covers synonyms. This unit allows children the opportunity to learn about many words that mean the same thing. Some of these works include matching synonym work along with worksheets to heighten the understanding of synonyms. This language unit not only encompasses children...Read More

In our Lower Elementary classrooms, we rotate most of our cultural units in a 3-year cycle, with the exception of the Botany and Zoology units. Work on the shelf progresses in difficulty, and rarely do students progress through all of the work on the shelf In their first year.  This week we have introduced the...Read More