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Lewis and Clark

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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Seven Minutes of Terror

This spring the three seventh graders participated in a class called Seven Minutes of Terror. The launch window for the Mars 2020 mission opened July 17 and closed Aug. 5, when Earth and Mars are in the proper positions in the solar system to enable a direct interplanetary journey. The rover was scheduled to land Read More >>

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Animal Classification Spring 2022

This year was the continuation of an animal class that had begun 2 years ago. Many of the activities of the class continued through this year.  However, we had several new students join us and our group size became 11 children.  We continued to read books and have discussions on Wednesday mornings at snack.  As Read More >>

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Lego Class

In Lego class 2nd graders used Legos to learn about simple and powered machines using hands-on activities. First, they investigated structures and forces, incorporating both rigid and flexible shapes in building deck chairs and drawbridges.Applying principles they learned about levers, they made drumming machines. Attaching a motor provided more opportunities to explore. For example, the students Read More >>

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Mystery Powders

Students in grades 3 – 5 took part in a chemistry unit titled, Mystery Powders. They had to observe and learn about the chemical and physical characteristics of white powders (cornstarch, baking soda and plaster of paris) in order to solve (infer) a “Who-did -it” mystery. Students were told that there had been a robbery Read More >>

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Atoms and Molecules

This semester the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders spent 5 weeks learning basic chemistry! We started with the structure of the atom and decoding the information in the periodic table of elements, atomic numbers, atomic masses, etc. We then discussed the importance of electrons and covalent bonds. We started drawing simple organic and inorganic molecules Read More >>