Primary 1 put their engineering skills in gear this week with a STEM challenge! The goal was to make a paper chain taller than themselves. They were given no direction other than the goal, the materials provided, and a ten-minute time-frame. 1 piece of construction paper ...
Last month, Spanish Middle School students learned about Gracia Festival in Barcelona and created their own neighborhood decorations! ...
Children of the World - Namsel's parents visited class to talk about Nepal, their home country. Click on a picture below to start the slide show [envira-gallery id="482"] Thank you to Namsel's parents for visiting class to talk about Nepal. The children really enjoyed looking at the pictures on the IWB...
Design Thinking was the focus of Wednesday's professional learning. Design Thinking focuses on developing a mindset which is not problem-focused but solution focused. During this session, staff members worked in teams to solve a complex problem to create a more desirable solution. Teachers were highly engaged...
Elementary honor choir students write about what singing in a choir means to them....
Grade 7 is both celebrating successes as well as thinking forward with two questions during advisory - What am I doing well? and What can I work on improving? - understanding that self-reflection and metacognition are important parts of learning. Students celebrated things like: "I am doing...
Grade 5 Tackles Service Learning Scenarios During our Monday morning elementary assembly we welcomed Clare Bennett who came to share her wealth of Service Learning knowledge. After a very educational discussion with all of our elementary students Clare led a scenario based problem solving session with...
The children participated in a sensory touch walk in the garden. They described the texture and tried to guess the contents of each tray. Click on a picture below to start the slide show [envira-gallery id="432"]...
