This week in Upper Elementary, students studied the Universe and are working on 3-D examples of everything from the Earth’s place in the Solar System to types of particles. In history, we examined the Incas and Mayans. Next week, we have a guest speaker from the Wood County Museum to share Native American of Ohio...Read More

So much happening in the classroom right now! The culminating activity for the Egypt simmilaton  was full of hands-on activities. Both upper elementary classrooms combined to work at 12 different stations around the room. Some of the activities included; building a pyramid, earth cosmetics, clay cartouche, laundry, and the embalming process. Our Spanish students performed...Read More

Fourth grade students enjoyed the Ag Fest sponsored by Ohio State University Extension and the Wood County Commissioners. Students experienced a petting farm with animals from the BG FFA, learned about the latest technological advances in farm machinery (drones), were educated on care of horses and  learned advances in farm practices that promote healthy water...Read More

Each year the 6th grade students go on a field trip in the last week of school. They are responsible for picking the destination and financing the trip. This year they chose to go to The Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village. To plan the trip they had to first decide on a location that they could...Read More

Today the students presented their science discoveries to the class. Each group made a slide presentation showing all processes of the scientific method. The experiments were on the properties of liquids. The titles included; A Slow Race (viscosity), Spreading Colors (Chromatography), Liquid Mixes (solution, emulsion, suspension, Miscible), Drops on a Penny (surface tension) and Graduated...Read More

This week the class began their Monday morning celebrating Pi Day. We had a “pie” themed riddle for our question of the day that challenged their geometrical thinking! Our 4th year students explored the Decanomial, while our older students studied Integers and Cubing. We ended the day with the Animal Kingdom and Music. On Tuesday,...Read More

If you step into the 9-12 year old classroom today you will think you are in ancient Egypt! The students are engaged in a simulation of ancient Egypt. They are working in collaborative groups to create a 3-D map that includes major cities, geographical features, houses, farms and fields and of course the famous landmarks....Read More

This week is Montessori Education Week! We started out on Monday dressed as our favorite book character. Some of our classmates were dressed as Harry Potter, Red Riding Hood and lots of others! Our class had Music and math lessons. Tuesday we celebrated “Hats Off to Parents!” and read a book called “Caps for Sale”....Read More

Tuesday was language day for our class. You had a language lesson here, and one there, everybody was doing language because, as I said, Tuesday is a language day. The day first started with a morning meeting. We always start with a morning meeting everyday. I think we did breathing for our mindfulness part after...Read More

This week our class went back to normal after many people were sick for the past week. After getting back on track the class has been racing to finish our ancient civilization projects whether that means doing last minute research, finishing drawings, or completing sculpting projects. This week we also had our first meeting for...Read More