Middle School

General News Here is the presentation from parent night if you were not able to attend! TLDR, your kids are phenomenal, they are rocking this transition, we are giving them time to grow into new skill sets, and we love them! Reading/Writing Update Five paragraph essays seem intimidating at first but we tackled them this week and got into a great flow! Before we wrote a full on research essay we decided to take a step back and write 5 paragraph essays on topics we are already experts on. The topics were fun and light hearted: how to care for […]

General News Thank you so much for your open feedback on our Parent Support Night survey. If you haven’t filled out it yet–please do ASAP! We’d really love to make your night with us super aligned with your needs and we can only do that well if you tell us what you’re thinking! It’s snappy–we promise! Mark your calendars! Parent Support Night is next Tuesday evening, starting with a parent social at 5:30. With all the changes, we’d really appreciate your participation, if at all possible. Thanks! Big welcome to Lia and family! We’re so excited to have you join

Math: 7th graders added and subtracted rational numbers this week and started on their collaborative mural. 8th graders learned this difference between a rational and irrational number as well as practiced classifying numbers into sets. Algebra finished their first unit with infinite and no solution equations, proportions, and literal equations. The Algebra check in will be Tuesday! ELA: Our readers took a deep dive into our novel, Uprising, as we continued our journey into the immigration movement of the industrial age. Students journaled about their favorite characters and why they may have immigrated, reacting to the quote “No one leaves

General News We’re all still adjusting to the new schedule of upper school! This week we added in flex time, where the kiddos rotate through the upper school teachers after lunch for different short blocks where they play math games, learn technology skills, and talk about social emotional learning topics. We have a new Delta joining our school family next week! Welcome Lia to the year 2 group! Reading/Writing Update This week in ELA we introduced a new method of going over our homework where we check everything together in class. The kiddos seemed to really enjoy this! Though time

Math: This was a wonderful first week! The 7th graders classified rational numbers on Tuesday and created their own nested diagrams. On Wednesday they reviewed how to add and subtract integers, and on Thursday they completed mazes and a solve and color to continue practicing. The 8th grade class reviewed how to convert between fractions and decimals on Tuesday, then dived into square roots. Wednesday they learned how to find the square root of perfect squares and on Thursday they learned how to estimate non-perfect square roots. The Algebra class jumped right in and covered four lessons this week: distribution,