During Read Aloud, at the end of the day, the older students listened to William Pene du Bois’ fascinating book 21 Balloons. This book chronicles the adventures of Professor William Read More >>
Mesopotamia – The Cradle of Civilization
For the oldest students (grades 4 and above), our study of “Mesopotamia” – the land between two rivers – began with a discussion of “How do we know what we Read More >>
Bugsocopter Science
To start the year, the oldest students were challenged to learn as much as they could about bugscopters – a t-shaped, paper, helicopter-like creation of Larry Schafer, formerly professor of Read More >>
Motel of the Mysteries
The oldest students listened to a book at read aloud this fall called Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay. In this book, it is the year 4022 and all of the ancient Read More >>
13 Colonies
After studying the early explorers to the New World we turned our attention to the people who decided to settle in the New World – the early colonists. Read More >>
Probability
For six weeks in September and October students in grades 4 to 7 were part of a class learning about probability. We started the unit by having a mystery bag Read More >>
Book Club: Tuck Everlasting
Many of the older students have been reading the book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Each time the book club met the students were given a set of questions on Read More >>
Writing Workshop: Living Forever
The fourth through eighth graders have been working on a writing piece based off the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. In the story the main character is faced with Read More >>
Graphing
Students in the intermediate grades explored the many ways you can display data. The first information or data we considered was a list of our birthdays. How could we display Read More >>
From Europe to the New World
For the older student, our early American History unit began in September with a study of the early explorers to the New World. The students were divided into four groups Read More >>