Middle School

General News We can’t believe it’s the weekend again already! We got a lot of great learning done in our two days together. 🙂 Our field trip planning for March 3rd and 4th is still in the works, but we have secured brave volunteers for chaperoning! (Thank you!) We’ll keep you posted as plans firm up. Reading/Writing Update We made the most of our weird, short week! We had a wonderful discussion about our new novel, Feathers! Kiddos seem to be really enjoying this book and using it to dig into the deeper “why” behind why people participate in religion. […]

Math The 7th graders covered finding the area of triangles and quadrilaterals on Tuesday. On Wednesday they had a lesson about finding the area of composite shapes. Thursday, they worked in groups of 3 to solve problems in a round table format. The 8th graders worked on a unit review Tuesday and Wednesday and started their check-in on Thursday. The Algebra students had 3 lessons over graphing exponential functions, exponential function applications, and geometric sequences. Humanities The week we worked to finish our examination of Warhorse and the experiences of World War I. Students prepared and completed Literary essays that

General News We had a short week due to the holiday, but students are settling nicely into a groove in our new downstairs classroom. A huge thank you to everyone who helped with campus cleanup last weekend. It was such a great feeling to walk into such spic-and-span classrooms on Tuesday morning! Reading/Writing Update This week was all about picture books and world religions as we prepare to write our own books in the coming weeks! We read four different books that feature religion. We took notes as we read to observe when the books mention: house of worship, prayer,

Math: This week the 7th graders practiced finding the area of a circle. They ended the week by designing rooms, calculating the square footage, and the area of the furniture inside their rooms. The 8th graders learned the angle-angle criterion and how to identify if triangles are similar. They practiced sorting triangles into similar and non-similar and with task cards reviewing the unit. Algebra students learned how to deal with negative exponents. They practiced the entire unit with a review game and a scavenger hunt. monomials. Humanities: It was a week filled with emotions as out our novel War Horse

General News We had a great (we mean capital G-R-E-A-T!!!) first week! Considering the amount of change we’ve all ingested, it was actually a freakishly wonderful first week. The honeymoon may end, but we said that the entire last year and it STILL continues. Thank you! Here’s a snippet from our first week’s student survey that will give you an idea of how the kids are feeling. (We’re off to a good start! ❤️) Reading/Writing Update Same as math, we didn’t have a ton of time devoted to structured ELA class this week as we were busy with community building