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Middle School Program News

  • Unit 1: South Africa and Apartheid Welcome to a new year in the Program for Upper Level Students at Happy Kids. Each year I try to plan unique, interesting, and challenging students of this class. This ...
    Posted Sep 17, 2018, 6:20 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Activities and Discussion Questions for M. T. Anderson's Feed We are nearing the end of our unit on Feed. I know some of out there are curious about the different assignments we are working on on in class. I ...
    Posted May 18, 2018, 1:09 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Feed This week we started our fourth and final unit of the year. Our guide material is the novel Feed by M. T. Anderson. Feed is an interesting book. It is ...
    Posted Mar 27, 2018, 6:49 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 2 News

  • 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 7, 2018, 7:15 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Diary of a Spider This week Grade 2 is moving on in Journeys to Diary of a Spider. This is a wonderful little book by Doreen Cronin that takes a comical look at life ...
    Posted Sep 30, 2018, 3:01 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Extension Project: My Family Coat of Arms My apologies for the late post. This week, we took a break from Journeys and did our first extension activity: a family coat of arms. A long time ago in ...
    Posted Sep 27, 2018, 10:09 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • This Week: More ACES Phone We got behind on our Fruit Bowl Project and had to take most of this past week to get it done. We are finished now though and I will be ...
    Posted Oct 7, 2018, 7:26 AM 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 30, 2018, 2:59 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Extension Week: Our "Fruit Bowl" Project It's finally here! This week, the 6th grade class will begin its first extension activity: a "fruit bowl" project. This activity comes straight from our reading last week. The ...
    Posted Sep 27, 2018, 10:11 PM by Jason Brunken
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