Día de los Muertos Trip

Homework: 4th Math: Multiplication Packet; 5th Math:10,11 in packet Practice typing! Spelling practice. For those of you in Words Their Way, that means get your folks to read your words and you try to write them in your packet. See how you do!  

Routine, and Why It Matters

Full disclosure: It is 2:30pm on Friday, and I’m just now sitting down to write this blog that is due to Carmen, our Communications Director, at the close of the day. As a procrastinator, the adrenaline is all too familiar. Along with my procrastinating peers, I can argue that I do my best work under […]

Upcoming Events

Homework Tonight: 5th grade mathematicians should do pages 3 and 2, in that order. Sorry for the out of order packet. Also, try using the number line strategy! Don’t fall back on the algorithm! Cultural Studies: finish the Pilgrims packet Read, as always, and your next reading group assignment in due Friday An email that […]

Who was Christopher Columbus?

Students visited five different stations during cultural studies today. Each had a reading from a different text that portrayed Columbus and the world of his time in a different light. A poem gave perspective on the enslavement of the Taíno people. Columbus’ words were captured in a wood carving from when he returned to Spain, […]

Respect and Inclusion

All parenting adults will eventually witness their children trying out sarcasm for the first time, attempting to tease as a way to engage socially, and expressing a strong desire to belong by behaving in exclusionary ways. In the process, you might hear comments like these: “Oh dude, I figured this out — no thanks to […]