This week, students studied the Geologic Timeline in history. 5th years began their study of Botany, and 6th years began studying human systems. Students continue to work on math operations and delve into new lessons. We had our first Literature Circle discussion Thursday. This is an opportunity for students to show what they know! They...Read More

It has been a wonderful first few weeks of school! Your children’s kindness and excitement for school is invigorating. We have had a lot of fun diving into work and building a community. This week, we are in full swing! We began Spelling, Language, Writing, Grammar, Geometry, Math, Reading, Geography, Science, History, and Spanish. For...Read More

  Hello Parents and Families! This week we are finishing up “end of the year works”, such as things we didn’t get to study earlier this year. For example, students were offered a lesson on Multi Base systems. This entails counting by Base 5, which would have us count 1, 2, 3, 4, then “skip”...Read More

This week we’re wrapping up our units. History is focusing on the American Revolution, including battles at places such as Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Lexington Concord. The students are using informational cards to write paraphrased summaries of such events. In science, we’re working with K’nex to build fixed and moveable pulley systems to measure our...Read More

Hello families! This week we continued our work on K’nex to explore the concepts of lift, force, gravity, inclined plane, simple machines, and so on. We have projects each week that involve intricate building schematics, and we work together cooperatively to meet our goals. In addition, we have our biology and botany lessons this week,...Read More

  We’ve started our week out with Book Buddies and Biology/Botany. The students have “buddies” across grade levels, and each Tuesday, we either do a Peace Lesson together or read to each other. Your child will be reading with anyone from a kindergartner to a middle school student. We all choose picture books that satisfy...Read More

This week we started our Science unit on Simple Machines. Yesterday the students learned the concepts of force, work, distance, and lift by experimenting with various household objects–including a wall! We lifted books, pushed chairs, and did other work with simple machine knowledge. We’re also working on integers, cubing binomials, forming decimals, and squaring. Students...Read More

  This week we celebrated Pi Day! As many of you know, the number is infinite and non-repeating, so we had plenty and plenty of activities to do. Each activity represented a part of our normal curriculum (Language, math, geometry etc.). Students constructed Pi number lines by measuring the circumference of various circular objects. Students...Read More

  This week students have studied Colonial Government, exceptional weather, binomials, square roots, carbonic acid, collective and proper nouns, types of prepositions, and so much more!  We have also had some impressive homework presentations this week that demonstrate new learning, initiative, creativity, determination, and interests. I appreciate the time and energy you put into the project...Read More

We started this week with a focus on Biomes in science. First, the students researched a selected Biome through information cards that they then matched up. Afterward, they answer five questions, in complete paragraph form, for a short essay on the topic. Finally, they created a wooden diorama of their biome with an insert of...Read More