It has been wonderful having the students back this week and hearing all about their vacations. Please join me in welcoming a new student to our community: Blake! He is in fourth grade and is excited to be part of our school. This week, we’ve seen some incredible homework project presentations, including cross-stitching, woodworking,...Read More

We’ve had such an exciting week filled with holiday cheer and creativity. The students have been busy making holiday crafts, conducting festive science experiments, exploring holiday traditions from around the world, putting on a music performance, and writing persuasive essays. Thursday, we dived into the fun of building gingerbread houses! A big thank you to...Read More

This week, students have been conducting many interesting science experiments, researching an ancient civilization of their choosing, practicing graphing, dissecting marigolds, and enjoying writing. Upper will be visiting the Toledo Museum of Art today, as part of our study of ancient civilizations. Join us on Monday, December 16th, from 9:00 to 10:00 AM in Oberheu for a...Read More

This week, students have jumped back into the classroom routine with exciting lessons across multiple subjects: they explored energy transformations in science, delved into factoring and fractions in math (with some fun Taylor Swift songs to help with math facts), learned about organism evolution in biology, studied the timeline of ancient civilizations, and practiced collective...Read More

This week students practiced visiting other societies during history to understand how difficult it might be to migrate to a new society. In science students learned about how sound can travel in waves. They also learned the difference between light and sound waves. In biology, 4th graders just started their microscope studies. Students also chose...Read More

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