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Program Updates: Language Arts – June 2025
LANGUAGE ARTS (Lisa) Grade 7 Our seventh-graders closed the year with choice novel book groups. Students had the opportunity to choose a text and then regularly gather with peers to practice thoughtful discussion of their novel. Throughout seventh and eighth grades, students are in a process of learning to read not just to complete a…
Read MoreProgram Updates: PE/Health – May 2025
PE (Terra) In PE, the 6th and 7th grade students have been playing “The Box Game,” which is a game similar to Capture the Flag, but with frisbees, with the goal of trying to get as many as possible in the opponent’s “box.” The students seem to love playing this game. Some of the students…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Science and Math – May 2025
SCIENCE Grade 6 (Kristin) You push and push for 20 long minutes trying to get a car out of a ditch. You’re frustrated and exhausted when it hasn’t moved an inch. Imagine your dismay when your science teacher tells you that you haven’t done ANY work on the car: ZERO! That’s because, in Science class,…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Art and Music – May 2025
VISUAL ARTS (Sarah) Springtime at Explorer West means Arts Night! We’re bursting at the seams with artworks and we’re preparing for the art show where all that creativity goes on display and artworks go home. Students are busy working on our final projects of the year. Ceramics and Ancient sculpture for the 6th; ceramics and…
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For the last two years, EW has provided an exciting opportunity for our 8th graders to (potentially) earn high school credits for World Language. The state of Washington offers testing to earn World Language Competency-Based Credit, including Latin! Washington uses a test called ALIRA, the ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment, as a tool to assess…
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