by Miranda Hine | May 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
While we were preparing for a mock trial on the 1969 Tinkercase, the oldest students explored music and poetry that changed the world! As we listened and read songs by John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke we asked ourselves ‘What is a lyric?” “How are...
by Miranda Hine | May 8, 2026 | 2025-2026, Community, Grades 5 - 8, Social Studies
This spring after learning about the Constitution and the three branches of government, we turned our attention to the Bill of Rights. Next we focused on the 1969 Supreme Court ruling on the Tinker versus Des Moines School District case. At issue was whether freedom...
by Miranda Hine | Oct 25, 2025 | 2025-2026, grade 2, grade 3, language arts
Adrian, Caelum, Arcadya and Cora were part of a book club reading Alexander McCall Smith’s Akimbo and the Elephants. Children were assigned to read a chapter of the book each week. Some children read independently, and others read out loud to a teacher. In class we...
by Miranda Hine | Oct 25, 2025 | 2025-2026, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
Our Reconstruction unit started with a few simple questions: What is History? Who cares? Why Study it? The overarching theme to the students’ answers was that we study history to learn from it and to not repeat it. Then students considered the Declaration of...
