Early childhood introduced two new science units this week! East studied animal tracks as they watched the snowfall outside and West discovered items that were magnetic or non-magnetic. Speaking of snow, a winter snow scene, cutting a snowflake and positive/negative snowman were additional art works and concepts explored. Both classrooms added the cubing chains to...Read More

Dear Parents, It’s the first week back from break! Everybody has a full schedule again. This week is a normal week. We have Music on Monday, Writer’s Workshop on Tuesday, P.E. and Writer’s Workshop on Wednesday, Spanish, Art and History on Thursday, and on Friday we have Writer’s Workshop again. -Nora Vanneman”Read More

Welcome back from break and to 2022! We hope that you all enjoyed your time with family and were able to stay healthy. The students were excited to share some of their experiences and activities with us. They were also excited for our new unit on the Zoology shelf. We are exploring with the next group...Read More

Hello, and Happy New Year! We haven’t had a full class yet because some people are out sick or still on trips for winter break. On Monday we started our lessons like a normal day. Monday is always math lessons for all grades and biology for the 4th and 5th graders. After winter break we...Read More

Welcome back from break and to 2022! We hope you all enjoyed your time with family and were able to stay healthy. The students were excited to share some of their experiences and activities with us. They were also excited for our new unit on the Zoology shelf. We are exploring with the next group...Read More

Happy New Year!  EC began our week with new cutting and tracing work, using snowflake shapes!  We introduced a new Geography unit:  My School.  In East, new work on the art shelf included cutting a positive/negative space snowman, and using chalk to draw a snowy scene.  Metal insets were demonstrated as well, using only the inset...Read More

This week has been a busy one for sure! Though winter break begins next week, the students were still introduced to a couple new units. This allowed for the children to not only be excited about the holidays, but also continue their excitement of learning new things. For the math unit, students made the transition...Read More

This week has been a busy one for sure! Though winter break begins next week, the students were still introduced to a couple new units. This allowed for the children to not only be excited for the holidays, but also continue their excitement towards learning new things. For math unit, students made the transition from...Read More

Upper West Weekly News This week everybody has been presenting their projects in front of the class. The projects range from the Beatles, to building, tying knots, to interesting foods. Other things people have done are a log cabin showing how people lived in the 1800s, some very interesting facts about Jeff Kinney and his...Read More

This week the Spirit of Christmas is in the air! Friends enjoyed many festive works including wrapping gifts and delivering them to a friend. This gave them  the opportunity to experience the meaning of gift-giving and use their imagination as to what they received. We made paper chains as a decoration and countdown to Christmas. Each...Read More