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Animal Cells

  This four week for our oldest students unit looked at the structure and function of a typical animal cell. The animal cell’s organelles were described and discussed. Students constructed Read More >>

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Letter Writing

This spring, students in grades 3-4 participated in a unit on writing a persuasive letter.  We read informational articles to gather baseline information about how littering affects the ecosystems on Read More >>

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Emerald Atlas

This spring, students in grades 4-7 participated in a book club for The Emerald Atlas(Books of Beginning) by John Stephens.  We began this class by creating group discussion rules that Read More >>

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Spectra: Energetic Escape!

Students enjoyed four activities that explored friction, kinetic and potential energy and how energy is transferred. In each experiment students considered a key question and after setting up an experiment Read More >>

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Making the World a Better Place

We spent the first half of the year being inspired by people like Ghandi, Wangari, and Malala, and their stories of how they made the world a better place. We Read More >>

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Creation Myths

Since January, we began a class with the younger half of the school reading a wide variety of myths from Native American, South American, and African cultures that give voice Read More >>

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Story Time at DeWitt Library

Our kindergarten students look forward to Tuesdays. That’s the day they walk to the library for story time. They join several other children to listen to stories, and sing and Read More >>

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Crocodile Lyle

This winter, our Kindergarten students explored the fun of Bernard Waber’s lovable crocodile, Lyle. Each Thursday we read a Lyle book and then drew and wrote about one part of Read More >>

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Layers of the Earth

This spring, students in grades 2-4 participated in a unit on the layers of the Earth.  We read The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, by Joanna & Bruce Cole Read More >>

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Silly Sentences

Once a week during journal time, the youngest students are part of a class called Silly Sentences. Here they play with puzzle pieces to make sentences that are bound to Read More >>