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 >>
Bubble Science
This fall, students in grades 6-8 participated in a unit on bubbles. We started this unit by creating a small and large frame that could help us explore soap solution. Read More >>
Power, Privilege, Persecution, Persistence and Poverty
As the oldest students started to create a annotated time showing the century from 1850 – 1950, they revisited and reviewed last year’s study of the Industrial revolution. Here we Read More >>
Bloom’s Taxonomy
The oldest students were part of a short unit where we explored Bloom’s Taxonomy. What better way to learn about higher and lower level questions than to write your own Read More >>
Civil War
This year we are doing a small group class on the Civil War with a small group of middle school students. As a part of this class our goals are: To Read More >>
Sewing
Six of the oldest students just completed an exciting sewing project! First the children had to get certified by the Fayetteville Free Library’s staff. An hour long course taught them the parts of Read More >>
Spanish with Amanda
Spanish this semester went so well! Ace, Ben, Greer, and Jonas were all such wonderful students ready for each class with great participation and questions! We started off the semester Read More >>
Things too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry
Over the past six weeks the students in sixth and seventh grade have been reading the book Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught. This book Read More >>
The Microscopic World
In December 2016, Students in grades 6 & 7 began a unit on exploring microscopes and discovering things too small Read More >>
Variables and Inequalities
In Math class the 7th graders have been developing their abilities to solve for a variable in a equation and have recently been introduced to solving inequalities. The amount of Read More >>