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Middle School Program News

  • 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
  • Finishing Red Scarf Girl Sorry for not posting during this unit. We got pretty busy at school. However, the main reason I didn't post much was because I borrowed heavily from someone else ...
    Posted Mar 27, 2018, 6:15 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 2 News

  • Extension Week: Poetry Book e This week Grade 2 will be focusing our final efforts of the school year on poetry. We've been talking about poetry and figurative language all month and even ...
    Posted May 20, 2018, 7:15 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This week: Now and Ben Sorry for the late post. Last week, Grade 2 read about Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin (Ben) Franklin is a very important figure in American History. He is considered one of the ...
    Posted May 20, 2018, 7:12 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs This week in Grade 2 we are reading a very cool narrative nonfiction story about a woman named Mary Annig who had a very special dog named Tray. Tray had ...
    Posted May 8, 2018, 6:31 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • Graduation is near! It's almost that time of the year. The time when our 6th graders finish up their last days as students of the ASLA Program and, for some, their last ...
    Posted Apr 30, 2018, 2:41 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 15, 2018, 6:52 PM by Jason Brunken
  • Our Finished Website So the kids finished their websites and showed them off for ASLA parents and students this past week for the ASLA Student Expo. It was great watching the kids take ...
    Posted Apr 15, 2018, 6:47 PM by Jason Brunken
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