By Soni Albright, Admissions Director and Cyber Civics Teacher If you have not yet seen the documentary Race to Nowhere, you now have a fabulous opportunity to screen this film for free in your home through January 31, 2020. I strongly …
Gentle Ways to Ease Separation Anxiety and the Transition Back to School
As we begin the new school year, which for many may be a new experience, it is important to remember that each child will approach this transition differently. Separation anxiety can vary with the child’s age, their normal response to …
Eighth Graders Study Revolutions
By: Sarina Yospin, 8th Grade Teacher 2015-16 This week in 8th grade, we began a new block: Revolutions! We will be exploring revolutions from the 1700’s and 1800’s. This is one of those blocks that meets the children so beautifully. …
Grade 8 Language Arts Benchmarks
By the end of the year, students can: Independently read a wide variety of young-adult-appropriate texts including non-fiction, magazine articles, newspaper articles, novels, poems and reports. Independently write all content in main lesson books Accurately summarize main lesson presentations …
Grade 8 Math Benchmarks
By the end of the year, students can: •Manage the four processes with negative numbers • Create and interpret bar graphs, pie charts and grids • Understand and apply the order of operations rules • Solve basic algebraic equations …
Fifth Grade Skills
By: Darcie Steeves, Grade 5 Teacher The skills listed below are introduced, reviewed or mastered during the fifth grade year at our school. I thought this would be useful in preparation for 6th grade. LANGUAGE ARTS mastery of reading and …
Sensory Screening
By: Kerry Miller & Mary Hatch, Educational Support Today brings one of the truly brisk, cold days of autumn, which can also herald a shift in the playtime of the children. The teachers notice more time spent in the elaborate …
Looking Back at Grade 6 Trip to Eagle Bluff
By: Sarina Yospin, Grade 6 Teacher The grade six class may have seemed a little less energetic than usual at the end of last week — it’s only because we were all happily exhausted from our three-day trip to Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning …
Reflections on the 2013 Pentathlon
by Jason Burnstein I was once told that whenever there is a pentathlete of Greek descent at the Pentathlon, the sun always shines. In fact, the superstition proved true for many years. However, this year, it was struck down (perhaps …