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Take a Peek at How We Spend Our Days!

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Dictation

Students in dictation class have been focusing on reading and spelling words that follow the vowel-consonant-e pattern and comparing them with words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. Students sort, compare, read, and write words and sentences using words with these patterns. We have emphasized spelling patterns for certain consonant sounds at the ends of these types of words. For example, Read More >>

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Fox Book Club

Some of our younger students have been participating in their first book club. We have been reading several of the Fox books by Edward Marshall, including Fox On Wheels, Fox and His Friends, Fox On the Job, Fox Be Nimble, Fox On Stage, and Fox Outfoxed. Each book is divided into three chapters, each a humorous story about Fox and his family, friends, Read More >>

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Variables

Our two 7th graders and one 5th grader have taken a journey into pre-algebra this year.  This class has been called Variables all year, but we have explored so much more than just variables.  One thing that is constant is that there is often an “unknown” or “x” in most of our work, so the name “Variables” has stuck!  Even Read More >>

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Heating and Cooling

The youngest group of students have taken part in a science class on Heating and Cooling. They started the unit by discussing what hot, cold and temperature meant. They classified their findings on a Venn Diagram. The students were introduced to thermometers and practiced using them by taking the temperature of their fist, the room Read More >>

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Government

In January the oldest students started a “Government” unit. For three-months we have studied the needs and rights of individuals, the rights of a community and different forms of government in existence today. Children were first asked to bring in a newspaper article describing some aspect of government. The diversity of topics, from Speaker Sheldon Read More >>

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Explorers

Students in grades K-2 started a social students unit this fall on explorers.  Students were first asked to explain the difference between an Explorer and Exploring and came up with statements such as: Explore means to look for things and Explorer is something or someone that discovers things; Explore means to find things and Explorer is someone that Read More >>

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Multiplication/Division

A group of seven 3rd and 4th graders have been learning all about multiplication and division this winter.  With multiplication, they started with cluster problems which break large problems such as 358×27 into small clusters of easily known multiplication sentences such as: 300×2, 300×20, 50×20, etc.  Once the smaller problems are solved, students figure out which cluster will help Read More >>

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GLIMPSES OF AFTER SCHOOL; FALL

The first day of the After School Program and the weather is lovely.  We ease into the afternoon with tales of summer.  Potluck with families at Ryder Park! We have outdoor fun raking leaves, building fairy houses, playing tag and role playing.  We build structures and cavort in the woods and on the grass, gather Read More >>

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Cells, Trees and ESF (Written by Nora, Neona and Marina)

This year, Neona and Nora’s science class was learning about plant and animal cells. To get a better understanding of plant cells we visited E.S.F. (Environmental Science and Forestry.) We went there for two and a half hours and in that time we visited two different labs.  The first one we went to was Chuck Read More >>