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Middle School Program News

  • 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
  • Historical Perspective When learning about conflict in history, perspective is very important. People are complicated, and in history, people rarely fit nicely in to Good Guy and Bad Guy roles. Real life ...
    Posted Oct 21, 2018, 7:22 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 2 News

  • Final Extension: Collaborative Poetry Project It's that sad time of year where the school year is coming to an end. It has been a great one, and I have had a lot of fun ...
    Posted May 19, 2019, 7:37 PM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Now and Ben This week Grade 2 is reading about Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin (Ben) Franklin is a very important figure in American History. He is considered one of the Founders of America for ...
    Posted May 12, 2019, 8:37 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The Mysterious Tadpole This week Grade 2 is reading a wonderfully fun book by Steven Kellogg called The Mysterious Tadpole. This is the wacky tale of a boy who gets a tadpole from ...
    Posted May 5, 2019, 6:25 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • This Week: Graduation Prep and First to Fly This week, Grade 6 is reading First to Fly, a wonderful narrative non-fiction piece about the the Wright Brothers being the first people to ever fly in a powered ...
    Posted May 5, 2019, 6:30 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Extension Week: Book of Poems For the next week, the Grade 6 class will be writing poetry and preparing for graduation. All this week will be devoted to learning how to write poems and working ...
    Posted Apr 21, 2019, 6:47 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: All Alone in the Universe This week, the Grade 6 class will be reading a wonderful short story about friendship from our text called All Alone in the Universe. This story is for anyone who ...
    Posted Apr 14, 2019, 5:27 PM by Jason Brunken
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