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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: Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon This week we pay homage to the arrival of fall by reading another great Henry and Mudge book called Under the Yellow Moon. This story is about how Henry and ...
    Posted Sep 16, 2019, 5:29 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: My Family Hello! This week the Grade 2 classes will be reading My Family by George Ancona. George Ancona is an acclaimed photographer who has made and contributed to many children's ...
    Posted Sep 10, 2019, 7:00 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Henry and Mudge This week, the Grade 2 class will be finishing our postcards to our pen pals and reading and doing lessons related to the first chapter of Cynthia Rylant's first ...
    Posted Sep 1, 2019, 6:15 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • This Week: Knots in My Yo-Yo String This week the Grade 6 class is reading Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli. This book is an autobiography. Mr. Spinelli writes this book telling us about ...
    Posted Sep 16, 2019, 5:27 AM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: The Fruit Bowl Project Hello, Grade 6! This week we are reading The Fruit Bowl Project. It is an interesting story of a class of students who, using the same seven elements, create a ...
    Posted Sep 10, 2019, 6:58 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Our Class Constitution! During the first week of school, I tasked the class with examining what our values as a class were. I then had them brainstorm how those values would look as ...
    Posted Sep 10, 2019, 6:56 AM by Jason Brunken
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