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Program 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…
Read MoreProgram 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…
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