This week, we started Camp Willson narratives, researched nature from Camp, and jumped back into math, geometry, language, spelling, and vocabulary. In History, we participated in a simulation of fictional societies. Some societies were competitive, some focused on justice, and others centered on art. Students also stretched their imaginations this week! In their free time,...Read More
This week, our students have been diving into fascinating topics such as migration patterns, polarized lenses, personal narrative details, and sentence analysis. Our Weekly Woods and Tree Top Newspapers continue to be a big hit. At the end of each literature circle book, students showcase their imagination with a ‘creative component.’ Some students are filming...Read More
This week, students studied light in Science and got to do their lesson and follow up in the dark! In Biology, 5th years are researching a plant they are interested in growing. In history, we studied migration; in language, we studied comma splices and sentence fragments. Two students have been excited about geography lately; this...Read More
We’ve had a busy week testing. It’s not the most exciting, but students have been taking it seriously and we are impressed with their hard work. 4th years have been practicing paragraph writing using the “burger method.” For our next assignment, students will write about “the best burger in the world.” In order to help brainstorm sensory details,...Read More
We have practiced the scientific method and filled the classroom with experiments, became a civilization, started growing food for survival, worked on computer Google Drive licenses, studied the human skeletal system, brought down Mr. Bones from the attic, had Jasmine’s ferret visit, watched a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach molt (fun fact: until their keratin hardens, they turn completely white),...Read More
We are getting into the swing of things in Upper. This week we studied matter and energy in Science. We also had some fun with water molecules and surface tension last week. In biology students created different “departments” for body systems, worked on the phylogenetic tree of life, and studied kingdoms. In spelling we are working on...Read More
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
