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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

  • This Week: Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble We are reading a very interesting and funny story this week called Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble. It is a book about a principal who loves ties but loves his ...
    Posted Apr 6, 2020, 2:35 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Working in Space This week we are reading Working in Space, a nonfiction book about some of the many jobs astronauts do in space. This reading selection is interesting for the kids and ...
    Posted Mar 9, 2020, 7:34 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Now and Ben and more Welcome back! It's been over five weeks since I have last seen the kids in class. I'm so happy to see everyone back and healthy for the first ...
    Posted Feb 19, 2020, 6:11 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • Graduation Pictures! Congratulations to my awesome class! It was a great year. I'm so proud of each and every one of them. As you all know we had a professional photographer ...
    Posted May 29, 2020, 1:25 AM by Jason Brunken
  • 2020 Website Project For the next few weeks, the sixth grade class will be working on a very special project. They will be using Google Sites to build an original website about an ...
    Posted Apr 6, 2020, 2:38 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The Hero and the Minotaur This week in Grade 6, we will be exploring Ancient Greece as we read a version of the well-known Greek myth "Theseus and the Minotaur" called The Hero and ...
    Posted Mar 9, 2020, 7:37 AM by Jason Brunken
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