Hello families! This week we continued our work on K’nex to explore the concepts of lift, force, gravity, inclined plane, simple machines, and so on. We have projects each week that involve intricate building schematics, and we work together cooperatively to meet our goals. In addition, we have our biology and botany lessons this week,...Read More

As we approach the end of the school year, excitement and anticipation begin to take over. However, there is still work to be done in the classroom.  Our 3rd-year students continue working on their Imaginary Island project, and our 2nd-year students are finishing their Western State research projects.  Once they are finished, they will present their final...Read More

  We began our next food preparation-egg slicing this week!  A special thank you to Miss Bev, who provided both EC classrooms with freshly boiled eggs for this fun work.  We tonged, peeled, sliced, and enjoyed eating our food preparation.  Also, this week, we colored eggs using a cool whip!  Our class enjoyed an egg...Read More

  We’ve started our week out with Book Buddies and Biology/Botany. The students have “buddies” across grade levels, and each Tuesday, we either do a Peace Lesson together or read to each other. Your child will be reading with anyone from a kindergartner to a middle school student. We all choose picture books that satisfy...Read More

  Students continue to learn about Famous Americans in History, contractions in Word Study, and graphing for our Math Unit.  Our new unit this week was in Zoology.  We have concluded our study on fish and are now learning about mammals.  It is the last classification of vertebrates that we have in our course of study. We...Read More

  Students continue to learn about presidents for History, contractions in Word Study, and measurement for our Math Unit.  Our new unit this week was in Zoology.  We have concluded our study on fish and are now learning about mammals.  It is the last classification of vertebrates that we have in our course of study. We borrowed...Read More

This week we continued our polishing skills by polishing a ceramic bunny and an egg. Our next geography unit was a world focus on the continent of Australia. The Estimation Jar was introduced for another mathematical concept of “making your best guess” about a quantity. In movement, we used our sense of touch to match...Read More

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