Month: March 2016

REMINDERS & SHOUT-OUTS

REMINDERS & SHOUT-OUTS

Our Middle School students have a wonderful opportunity to see their work published. Open Roads, our literary magazine, is looking for poetry and narrative fiction or non-fiction no longer than 2 pages, double-spaced and photography or fine-art (drawings, paintings,...

SPECIALISTS’ CORNER

As we know, middle school is a time of growing minds and increased awareness of the world around us. Something as simple as turning out the light and going to bed may suddenly feel like a challenge to your adolescent. Similar to how we helped our very young children...

HEALTH & WELLNESS UPDATE

HEALTH & WELLNESS UPDATE

This past Monday during morning meeting, the Health and Wellness team presented their March wellness theme.  The theme entitled "March Madness: Swoosh Your Stress Away" focuses on the benefits of exercise as a tool for stress relief.  Students volunteered to read...

ARTS CLASSES OVERVIEW

Our Arts classes continue to offer our students rich, robust experiences that stretch each child in creative thinking, doing, and performing. Drama 7: Students are finishing up theatre terminology. They will soon engage in a backstage tour and lesson with our DE...

GRADE LEVEL HAPPENINGS

In Grade 8, students in English classes are wrapping up their study of To Kill A Mockingbird and continuing to refine topic sentences and thesis statements.  Students are also learning grammatical concepts in order to help increase the specificity of their arguments,...

MESSAGE FROM KATHY

Folks: Wow: the level of activity here in the Middle School continues to be of high quality with plenty of intellectual challenges and academic experiences for every student! As we head into Spring Break, I share below some of the good stuff that I get to see every...