It has been a fun week in Upper! The quail have returned, and the students have been doing a wonderful job caring for them. Apologies if your child came home covered in bedding! We have also had four volunteer readers head to the toddler room every week to read to students on Mondays and Wednesdays....Read More
It has been a wonderful first week of school! Your children are extremely kind and hard working. We hope they are enjoying class as much as we are enjoying them. Monday, we did the first great Montessori lesson on the beginning of the universe and today we did a fun archeology dig through the Island of P’sta (we...Read More
Happy last day of school! This year has been a whirlwind of shared experiences. It feels like just last week we were at Camp Wilson or cooking for Brown Bag. Then we were hatching 50 quail eggs, and now we have ten new classroom pets in our room. Remember in December when Nora, Ella, and...Read More
Students worked on anuran conservation, essay writing, and research projects on early hominids this week. A few of our students have been digging deep into algebra as we wrap up the school year. We also saw a few amazing homework project presentations! Remember that homework projects are due this Friday. In addition, 4th-years got to...Read More
I hope everyone is soaking up the sunshine! Students have been enjoying working outside this week. Our tadpoles have started growing their back legs. It’s really exciting to watch metamorphosis firsthand. This week, we learned about frogs’ skin permeability and its connection to ecosystem health. In biology, students learned about the digestive system and created their...Read More
We had a great week with grandparents visiting! Meeting so many special people in your child’s life was so nice. We also had Kiki, the Middle School ferret, visit us this week as Middle Schoolers went to Kentucky to visit the Ohio Caverns. Next Wednesday, The Cocoon Women’s Shelter will be coming to Upper to give...Read More
Miss Sam is back from maternity leave! The kids, as were the teachers, were very excited to see her again. Last week, BGSU students in the Environmental Studies Department came to teach the class adaptation, nature, and botany lessons. Students learned about native plants and made seed bombs; they learned about birds and pretended to...Read More
Our tadpoles arrived! We are excited to learn about their environment, ecosystem, metamorphosis, and how to care for them. We had been expecting African Clawed frogs to arrive, but in the spirit of keeping things exciting in Upper, we received American Toads! It’s not what we had planned for, but it will be a fun...Read More
It’s hard to believe next week is spring break! Students will be off school from April 1-8 (Monday- Monday). Monday, April 8th, is the solar eclipse! Students received a lesson, books, and eclipse glasses this week to prepare for the phenomenon. This week, we pretended to be Paleoartists and reconstructed early hominids from skull pictures....Read More
So many activities have happened in Upper since we last touched base! We had our Literature Circle sleepover; we had Pi Day (two students memorized over 100 digits of Pi!!!); we made leprechaun traps for St. Patrick’s Day and had a Leprechaun visit over the weekend; we had move-up day for 6th and 3rd years, and we had...Read More
