La Se帽ora Wallace came to the Lower Campus Spanish classes on Friday and talked to students about the Dominican Republic. Students learned about its location, environment, crops, tourism, etc. With the information given by Mrs. Wallace they also compared and contrasted school here in the United States with school in the Dominican Republic.聽 Once again […]
First grade students recently participated in their annual Amazing Animal Display. They researched an animal, made story boards about their animal, and presented their information to students, teachers, and parents in the gym. To coordinate their study with Spanish, the students looked up their animal in books during Spanish class and found out how to […]
Second grader students are studying prehistoric dinosaurs in science. During science lab, students rotated to four different science stations where they measured dinosaurs, discussed vocabulary relating to dinosaurs such as herbivores and carnivores, and examined various dinosaur models. At the last station we made salt dough imprints of prehistoric creatures to take home! […]
First grade is jumping right in to the wonderful world of poetry this month.聽 We have some great ideas for where 鈥淚ckle Me, Tickle Me, and Pickle Me, too鈥澛� disappeared to – just look for the flying shoes in our classroom!聽 We also enjoyed meeting Shel Silverstein and learning that we have more money smarts […]
In celebration of Easter, our PreK classes held an Easter egg hunt and a picnic! Check out all the fun we had with our families:
We released Ladybugs to kick off our bug week in Kindergarten. We have been watching ladybugs & butterflies change as well as how spring brings new life and new growth. Students have been learning about the life cycles of ladybugs and butterflies and we are anxiously waiting for our praying mantis case to hatch! […]
Kindergarten students experimented with physics during their egg drop extravaganza. Students created contraptions to protect an egg from a 10ft fall. Students created all kinds of inventions to keep an egg from breaking and we got to see it unfold together!
Our fourth grade students visited Pine Cove last week聽for some outdoor education. Students took five, one hour classes for two days. Some of their classes covered Aquatics, Earth Science, Critter Class, Orienteering and much more. All of the classes were hands-on activities with a workbook that required students to generate independent answers. We spent two […]
The 91猫先生 Lower School Library recently purchased over 200 new books. We appreciate the generous support offered by parents, grandfriends, and faculty during our Scholastic Book Fairs. We earned enough to purchase many award winning聽and high interest books such as the new Caldecott winner and honor books, Texas Bluebonnet Award books, Superman series, Interactive […]
The Lower School chapel service included praise and worship music along with a very special message, “Reflections on Easter,” from music teacher, Kevin Pierce.聽 Mr. Pierce explained that Jesus died on the cross for all our sins and offers us grace from the burdens of our sins if we are willing to accept God’s gift […]
In Kindergarten we did a science lesson about eggs where we tested聽the strength of an egg. We started by having a few classmates try to crush an egg with their hands. Next we set a book then a stack of books on the eggs to see if they would break. For our final test the […]
The 91猫先生 Lower School’s fifth grade service project this year was to collect duffel bags for the Duffels for H.O.P.E. organization.聽 Duffels for H.O.P.E. is “a non-profit organization that seeks to provide proper transitional containers for the belongings of children entering the foster care system.”聽 Many of the duffels were filled with items that […]