From September to the end of October the Second and Third graders learned about the explorers who traveled across the United States to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean. One of the first things that students learned was that it was that a large part of the U.S. was bought in the Louisiana Purchase. Read More >>
Archives for November 2022
Art Exploration
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have an art class each day. Second grade joins us once a week. K-1 has free art at least once a week where students can work on longer individual projects or experiment with new materials. We have made and colored playdough that the children have enjoyed using, and use Read More >>
Caterpillars, Butterflies, Moths and Bees
We completed a unit study at the start of school on The Life Cycle of the Butterfly and Moth. Children learned about eggs, caterpillars, their metamorphosis within a cocoon or chrysalis, and their eventual emergence as a butterfly or moth. We were able to watch the life cycle play out with four Monarch caterpillars that Read More >>
ABA Class
Students in the middle grades are participating in a class that is using the Jack and the Beanstalk story to explore underlying principles of our system of justice related to fairness and honesty. Students are engaging in activities that encourage their own opinions about fairness and then in class discussions children are exposed to views Read More >>
Lyle the Crocodile
Students in kindergarten and first grade have been listening to stories by Bernard Wabber about Lyle the Crocodile. As we read these stories, we discuss vocabulary such as: useful, desperately, toothsome, frightened, performing, permit and signal. Students are then asked to draw a picture and dictate words about Lyle and themselves. This starts a conversation Read More >>