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

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