Happy New Year! We can’t believe it’s January, 2023! The students returned from Winter Break remembering the routines and working diligently. They have become very normalized and we are happy to see them working and learning. Each day they make a plan for the day and get straight to work. Most will choose a work from each subject...Read More
We are closing the 2022 school year studying the Months of the Year in LS and the Days of the Week in LN. In these units the students will learn, practice and review the order and the origin of these subjects. Along with this unit, we always study the month that we are currently in....Read More
Despite the busy time of year, our students have been keeping busy! This week, students were introduced to two new units: Zoology and Word Study. In Zoology, students were presented with amphibian work. They explored the nomenclature regarding the external and internal parts of a frog along with their functions. In addition, students also...Read More
Welcome to December! We introduced a new math unit that involves money. Students work on identifying all of the coins and paper money. The younger students will practice counting small amounts of coins while students familiar with coins learn how to make change. On our Geography shelf, we have introduced our unit on biomes....Read More
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 holiday. Our...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...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
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 we...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, sweepers,...Read More
