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Program Update: Social Studies – May 2025
SOCIAL STUDIES Grade 6 (Daniela) Sixth graders just finished up a unit on Evolution of Writing Systems. In this unit we examined different types of writing systems, pictographic, hieroglyphic, and alphabetic, along with reading about the “world’s oldest complaint letter” written in Sumerian cuneiform, which is considered to be the world’s first written language. In…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Language Arts and Latin – April 2025
LANGUAGE ARTS Grade 6 (Cilla) Sixth graders are building the foundations for their five paragraph literary essay. Last week they explored thematic topics in the novel One Crazy Summer, such as sisterhood, prejudice, childhood or identity. They chose one topic to investigate and have been reading and rereading the novel, gathering a list of passages…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Drama and PE – April 2025
DRAMA It’s Show Season! Hooray! We’re in full performance mode across all three grade levels and can’t wait to share the incredible work students have created! Please see below for important details about performance dates and arrival times. As space is limited, we kindly ask that families and students attend only their own child’s performance.…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Science and Math – April 2025
SCIENCE Grade 6 (Kristin) Why do radios and cell phones lose reception when you go through a tunnel? How does a remote control turn on a TV? These, and other questions related to the electromagnetic spectrum, are top of mind in 6th grade science right now. What do all these different size waves do, and…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Art and Music – April 2025
VISUAL ARTS (Sarah) The pace of productivity in the art room remains high! The favorite activity of the semester is, naturally, ceramics. Our first firing This is what the kiln looks like when it’s ready to fire. The bluish coating is an overglaze which turns to clear, glossy glass at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Grade 6…
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