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Program 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…
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.…
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