Hello, families! This week Mike McMaster from the Wood County Historical Museum taught us about Native American History in our local area. Ms. Kristine continued to share her work on Native American History as well. We learned about the French and Indian War, the Indian Citizenship Law, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. We...Read More

Hello families and parents! We have been busy this week in the Upper west! This week our students continued to master their math division facts. They worked together across grade levels for these skills cooperating with each other. Our sixth-year students are studying human biology and learning to identify different body parts. In class, we...Read More

This week is a short week because we don’t have school on Friday. Also this week we finished our literature circle books and have to present them in some way. Some groups are doing a board game, an interrogation, or a puppet show. We are also doing a 3-D map of Ancient Egypt. There are...Read More

Greetings, readers! This is Matthew Bostic. I’m here to inform you about the top news about Upper West! We have gotten 2 pets over the last few weeks. Olivia H. brought in praying mantis eggs, and our teachers, Mr. Dave and Miss Natasha, got two hermit crabs from the middle schoolers! Those are some pretty...Read More

Upper West has been busy creating headbands for our Egypt History follow up. We have to draw the correct animals and shapes for each of our nomes and whether we are in Lower or Upper Egypt. We’ll add these to our Khats and Manats and dress up as real Ancient Egyptians! We’re continuing work on...Read More

There have been a lot of things happening in this short week. Starting out with Valentine’s Day. We had an hour to pass out valentines and decorate our valentine bags. It was very fun. When we were done with passing out valentines we had some of the candy and did a Wordle. Also, the reason...Read More

This week at school was the week right after a big snow storm, leaving lots of children to jump and play in the snow. Also, a good classmate Olivia has brought in little itty bitty praying mantis eggs that should hatch in the spring. In P.E. class, the American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge has...Read More

Today we finished our history projects! Our history projects were about ancient civilizations. There was one group that did the Mayans, another that did ancient China and another that did ancient India.The final project was making a clay sculpture, a paper dragon or anything that relates to the group that you are in. The other...Read More

This week we just got our new lit circle books. We were all in the same groups we were in before winter break. We just have new books.  The books we got to choose from were , Woodsong, A Dog’s Life, Superfudge and Number Of The Stars. Nobody got Number Of The Stars but the...Read More

We’ve had an eventful beginning of our week. Many of us are working on complex sentence analysis work. Some of us are working on squaring. We are all enjoying the little warmer weather outside for recess because Lake Montessori is still there. In Spanish we learned about the Three Wise Men, or Three Kings, that...Read More