Spanish students have been thinking about one word they want to define their year. After students found the word they wanted their life to be marked by this year, students then translated that word into Spanish and created a poster that represented that word and the year ahead! What a great way to integrate Spanish […]
In Mrs. Brunson鈥檚 Biology classes, students have been studying invertebrate groups. These animals include sponges (porifera), hydras (Cnidarian), Planarians (Platyhelminthes), Ascaris (roundworm), grasshoppers (arthropod) and crayfish (arthropod). They recently used the 鈥淟ife Process Charts鈥� in their lab books and completed them in class. They then visited the lab to watch a number of preselected videos […]
Our second graders are starting the New Year off with a whole lot of shaking. 聽Students are learning about the states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. In our science lab today, we went on a field trip by just sitting! Students had the opportunity to name and pick out different solids in our science […]
6th grade students in Mr. Roquemore’s Humanities class worked in pairs to complete a character analysis for their current novel, “Little Women”. Using evidence from the novel, the students had to describe the attributes of a main character, sketch a relevant item, and find quotations which best exemplify the personality of the character. Activities like […]
From the description alone, can you identify this antiquated technology used by earthlings so long ago? 鈥淭his artifact is a dark box.聽 The box has plastic armor protecting the filmy belt that makes up its insides.聽 There are strange markings 鈥� some numeric, some ancient writing 鈥� When tested, the item emitted a strange tune.鈥�*(Val […]
Eighth graders conducted a rotation lab on solubility where they tested different mixtures to classify them as a heterogeneous mixture or a solution.聽 They also determined the solvents and the solutes in the different mixtures.聽 Students also looked at solutions to see if light could pass through the solution and compared magnets attraction to paper […]
Our physics class created a plasma torch as a part of a lab this week! Although learning takes hard work, we love creating opportunities like this to show our students how the principals and ideas they’re learning in class relate to the real world. Check out this video to see the plasma torch for yourself: […]
聽聽 Scholarly Achievement Bridger Allen, Cade Chesley, Josh Collins, Nate Dahn, Maddy Fath, Jacob Frisbie, Owen Funk, Landrey McNeel, Reed Overbeek, Reagan Steele, Hannah Timmons, & Maeci Wilson Godly Character Brooklyn Davis, Grace Derryberry, Mia Fair, Emily Gragg, Luke Graves, Gemma Lake, & Ashley Nguyen Leadership Joshua Gillespie, Grayden Goates, Maddox Nelson, Jackson Simmon, […]
Second through fifth grade students are learning about the Dewey Decimal System by completing a scavenger hunt in the library this week! Students learn how to locate fiction and nonfiction books
Second graders read the book, The Courage of Sarah Noble. While reading this historical fiction novel, students used dictionary skills to find unfamiliar words to share with the class. This is the first of many dictionary activities that we will use this semester in second grade to聽expand our students’ vocabularies!
We had Christmas parties galore at the lower school this week! Students went on scavenger hunts, had pajama and pancake parties, learned about how different countries celebrate Christmas around the world, and celebrated the past, present, and future coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! You can see more photos on Facebook here:聽https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.996872743673179.1073742148.126194957407633&type=3&uploaded=66
Two Versions of The Night Before Christmas were read during chapel this week at the Lower School.聽The 1823 familiar poem written by Clement C. Moore, was read by librarian, Ila England. The other version read by the Lower School Principal, Sandra Fritcher, was The True Night Before Christmas by Timothy Penland and illustrated by granddaughter, […]