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Sep7Thu6:00 pm Curriculum Night: Primary @ Annex: Primary ClassroomCurriculum Night: Primary @ Annex: Primary ClassroomSep 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pmThis is an opportunity to learn more about your child’s classroom for this year. Teachers will share the daily schedule and their content topics. These are appropriate for both new and veteran parents to each classroom. We will provide the … Continue reading →7:15 pm Curriculum Night: Lower Elementary @ Annex: Primary ClassroomCurriculum Night: Lower Elementary @ Annex: Primary ClassroomSep 7 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pmThis is an opportunity to learn more about your child’s classroom for this year. Teachers will share the daily schedule and their content topics. These are appropriate for both new and veteran parents to each classroom. We will provide the … Continue reading →
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Category Archives: science
Planting the Garden in Lower Elementary
A handful of students in Lower Elementary planted their classroom’s gardens yesterday. This was part of a combined Science and Practical Life unit that has been ongoing for the past month, and has seen students selecting which seeds they … Continue reading
Posted in Lower Elementary, outside, practical life, science
Learning About Balance in MindUP
Students in Lower Elementary have a lesson in their MindUP curriculum every Wednesday in place of Specials (Art, Music, and PE). The MindUP curriculum teaches the latest scientific information about the brain to offer strategies for helping students to … Continue reading
Posted in Lower Elementary, science
Learning About Fish in Primary
Students in Primary recently continued their exploration of the animal kingdom by discussing fish. They used a fish skeleton to see that fish are vertebrates, with a clearly defined backbone. They saw that fins help a fish balance, steer, and stop. They observed metal discs in … Continue reading
Lower Elementary Learns About the Movement of Earth
In Science, our Lower Elementary students have been studying the ways that earth (lowercase e) can be moved by natural phenomena. Recently they talked about how wind can move earth, and they also watched a Bill Nye video on how the earth’s … Continue reading
Posted in Lower Elementary, science
Examining the Cardiovascular System in the Upper Unit
The students in our Upper Unit had a chance to dissect pig hearts and lungs last week as part of their study of the circulatory system. After exploring the heart and lung system as a whole, students examined and dissected heart structures such … Continue reading
Posted in Middle School, science, Upper Elementary, upper unit
Spiders, crustaceans, worms, and more!
In Primary, we have been exploring animals that don’t have backbones, but aren’t insects. Animals as diverse as jellyfish, coral, sponges, horseshoe crabs, lobsters, mites, ticks, spiders, starfish, worms, centipedes, snails, slugs and millipedes are also invertebrates. They’re having fun … Continue reading
Posted in guest speakers, McGuffey, Primary, science
Primary Students Learn About Tardigrades
Last week Primary received a visit from the Upper Unit science teacher, Susie! She came to talk to them about tardigrades, also known as water bears. These microscopic creatures are one of the most resilient forms of life on Earth. Because they are … Continue reading
Tiny Life
This unit of Science really takes some imagination! Last week Primary students were talking about the living things that exist that we can’t even see. Just in time for cold and flu season, they talked about viruses and bacteria. While some of … Continue reading
Studying Human Anatomy in the Upper Unit
Ligaments and tendons and bones, oh my! The Upper Unit is studying Anatomy and Physiology in science. They are currently working on the Musculoskeletal System, examining how their own muscles exert force in specific directions, using atlases to look up … Continue reading
Posted in science, upper unit
Examining Pinecones in Lower Elementary
Lower Elementary students are studying seeds this week in Science, and specifically, since there is an abundance of them in the outdoor classroom, pinecones. They are investigating the conditions under which pinecones “open” and “close” their scales. To make an experiment … Continue reading
Posted in Lower Elementary, science