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...
by Rebecca Dwyer | Oct 25, 2025 | 2025-2026, grades 6-8, science, Uncategorized
During the fall of 2025, the older students at school have been studying the microworld. We started learning about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who made the first single lens microscope in the 1670s. We then made our own magnifying glasses out of water bottles filled with...
