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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: Half-Chicken This week we are taking a short break from our Market Day Project and reading a folk tale translated from Spanish, Half-Chicken. The story tells of a chicken who ...
    Posted Apr 6, 2021, 7:08 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Extension Project: It's Market Day! Sorry for the late post. These past couple of weeks, our students (both Grade 2 ASLA classes) and our pen pals in Mr. Gaffney's class at the International School ...
    Posted Mar 31, 2021, 11:28 PM by Jason Brunken
  • This Week: Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend This week we are reading a charming sorry about being new and friendship. "Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend" is actually a short story out of the book The ...
    Posted Mar 10, 2021, 7:00 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • Extension Project: Surviving the Applewhites Website My apologies for not posting the last two weeks. The class has  been busy getting started on a big project. For the couple of weeks, the sixth grade class will ...
    Posted Mar 31, 2021, 10:16 PM by Jason Brunken
  • Surviving the Applewhites: A partial novel study For the rest of the month of March and the beginning of April, the sixth graders will be working only with Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan as part of ...
    Posted Mar 10, 2021, 7:02 PM 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 Feb 21, 2021, 11:40 PM by Jason Brunken
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