Hello Families, Here’s the weekly update from the MSBG Adolescent Classroom! Below you’ll find important upcoming dates, followed by highlights from our work together this week. In the Classroom History This week, we start our discussion of the Columbian Exchange and what happened on the global stage because of it. In order to balance the...Read More

Dear Lower Families, We have started to see great progression and development across all areas for many of our students! We have introduced our unit on fish onto our Zoology shelf, as well as continuing many individual lessons in both math and language. We have wrapped up our Small Moment unit in Writer’s Workshop and...Read More

Here are the highlights from this week in Upper: 1. The quail eggs are due to hatch! 2. The students are learning about coordinate grids. They are working on and finishing their coordinate grid projects this week…..look for them in the hallway! 3. 4th and 5th graders have a field trip to hear about the BG1 community book on...Read More

This week, we had many Sensorial works, including color box 3 for grading colors into light, medium, and dark. The geometric cabinet drawers were all open for exploration and vocabulary of the names of shapes. The large hexagon box was shown, introducing the hexagon, rhombus, and parallelogram. In practical life, the students used knives to...Read More

We have reached a new month, and with entering the first week of November, many students from both Lower communities have learned new information. In Botany, students have been exploring parts of a leaf along with different types of leaves. This week, teachers introduced an extension unit on the topic of leaves. With this unit,...Read More

Sensorial experiences were a large part of learning in Early Childhood East this week! We introduced the binomial cube, the triangle box, and the geometric cabinet. All of these works reinforce visual discrimination, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills. The next unit, My Family, was added to the Geography shelf, while Living/Non-Living was introduced as...Read More

We have reached a new month, and with the entry of the first week of November, many students from both Lower communities have learned new information. In Botany, students have been exploring parts of a leaf along with different types of leaves. This week, teachers introduced an extension unit on the topic of leaves. With...Read More

What a fun and busy week! Our new food preparation work was ladling vegetable soup and then tasting it! Shaving cream on a table was a popular work choice, this multi-step work encompasses pouring water, cleaning up, sensory discovery, and fine motor skills! Students also polished a variety of gourds. Sponge squeezing was introduced in...Read More

Hello Families, Here’s the weekly update from the MSBG Adolescent Classroom! History The students will be finishing up their Silk Road Projects this week, allowing us to move on to our conversation about the Columbian Exchange. Ask your adolescent what they are producing about the Silk Road. Science In Diversity of Life, we will be...Read More

This week, our toddlers worked on a craft activity inspired by the cultural celebration of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). In our classroom, we discussed this holiday to help promote cultural awareness and foster a sense of appreciation and unity. The children used markers to color their skull pictures, an activity that...Read More