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Middle School Program News

  • Welcome to the 2019-2020 School Year! Hi! This website is your home for the Happy Kids Program for Upper Level Students. If you are a new parent to this class, know that you can stop in ...
    Posted Aug 29, 2019, 7:41 PM by Jason Brunken
  • Getting Started on the Crusades with Blood Red Horse We are into a new unit in the PULS. This unit, featuring K. M. Grant's excellent novel Blood Red Horse will center around the historical event known as the ...
    Posted Jan 8, 2019, 4:33 AM by Jason Brunken
  • A Pail of Oysters and A Big Project on Transitional Justice A major topic going forward in class this year is transitional justice. Transitional justice are the actions countries take to address large-scale human and civil rights abuses in order ...
    Posted Oct 28, 2018, 2:46 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 2 News

  • Extension Week: Letters to Our Pen Pals For the next two weeks, the Grade 2 classes will be spending their time writing multi-paragraph replies to our pen pals in Tanzania. We received copies of postcards from ...
    Posted Oct 16, 2020, 7:29 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Ugly Vegetables This week we are reading Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin. Ugly Vegetables is a fun little story about a family that lives in a neighborhood where everybody plants a garden ...
    Posted Oct 13, 2020, 7:52 PM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Teacher's Pets This week the Grade 2 class will be working out of Journeys reading Teacher's Pets, a funny little story about school and pets by Ann Dodds. While it is ...
    Posted Oct 4, 2020, 10:08 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • Extension: Preparing the 2020 Haunted House An annual Happy Kids tradition in my 6th Grade or the past 10 years has been for the students to help prepare and then perform in the Haunted House for ...
    Posted Oct 16, 2020, 7:23 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The Meyers Family This week the Grade 6 class will be reading "The Meyers Family", a biography of Walter Dean Meyers and his son, Chris Meyers. Walter Dean Meyers is a prolific black ...
    Posted Oct 4, 2020, 10:06 PM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The ACES Phone Hello Grade 6! This week we are moving on in Journeys to The ACES Phone. This is a wonderful science fiction story by Jeanne Duprau. Duprau is a popular science ...
    Posted Sep 26, 2020, 6:23 AM by Jason Brunken
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