Posts Tagged ‘NASA. Explorer West’
Program Update: Social Studies
6th Grade-Daniela First quarter has been all about building skills. Students have learned how to take notes both in class and from websites, determine whether a source is credible, study for and take tests, and the importance of seeing historical and current events and people from multiple perspectives. To end the quarter, students wrote their…
Read MoreAthletics Update: March 21, 2023
The girls’ basketball season wrapped up last week Tuesday against Seattle Girls School, who played their 8th graders against our mostly 6th and 7th grade team, but from what I heard, it was a fun game, and all was good in the world today during lunch when they had their end-of-season lunch in the gym. …
Read MoreRome Dispatch 2023
Our first post-COVID trip to Rome was a smashing success. Today, we’ve heard raves from the 8th graders about their time in Rome. Everything from catacombs to futbal games to basilicas was listed as highlights of the trip. From Sarah: “One of the best things about going to Rome as the art teacher is watching…
Read MoreProgram Update: 7th Grade Latin
Seventh-grade Latin students are learning two new verb tenses: the perfect tense, which expresses completed action, and the imperfect, signifying repeated or ongoing action. These are both in play as our textbook characters, Indus, Gisco, and Catia, reminisce about their lives in Roman Britain. Gisco and Indus were Roman soldiers stationed near London. They recall…
Read MoreProgram Update: Math with Scott and Virgil
6th Grade: Students are using divisibility rules to Identify primes and factors of target numbers. You might ask for an example of how to use Factor Trees, Prime Pools, and Factor Towers to find and check all the factors of a given number (60 could make a good example…). We worked on building useful Multiple…
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