School News

This week the Elementary students have worked on dissecting flowers.  They took apart lilies, discovering the calyx (group of sepals), corolla (group of petals), stamens, and pistil.  Some have also opened up the ovary and discovered seeds inside!  They took home a lily that has yet to bloom so they ...
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              Welcome back from Easter break! Before the break began, we had our own Easter egg hunt.  Students made their own colorful Easter bags and dyed hard-boiled eggs with the help from on of our room mothers, Mrs. Cooper. They were ...
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One of the most anticipated celebrations in our Primary class is Valentine's Day.  This year, the children and I spent the whole week preparing for this day, specifically their beautiful Valentine basket.  They were all excited to give away the presents they lovingly prepared for their friends, and ...
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On Monday, Chance and Kelly presented the Chinese New Year to the Primary and Elementary classes.  They both celebrate this holiday with their families, and they talked about the new year celebrations in China and how this is the year of the monkey.   The pictures they presented showed traditional ...
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"My habit of measuring things led me to begin to count the number of times she repeated the exercise.  Then I thought I would see how far the strange concentration she showed could withstand disturbance, and I told the teacher to make the other children sing and move about.  They did so, but the ...
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The children of our Primary Class were so glad to have their parents see their work last Friday for the Parent-Child Night.  They have been preparing and practicing the materials they were going to show to them for weeks on end leading up to this night.  They were indeed very excited and proud of ...
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