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Middle School Program News

  • Until Next Year... I can't believe the school year is done already. Those 32 classes just flew by. We had a good time this year, and I hope everyone learned a lot ...
    Posted Jun 20, 2017, 2:16 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Anti-Heroes Now that we have gotten further along into Ship Breaker and this unit, we can begin to explore a final lesson on literary heroes: the anti-hero. anti-heroes by ...
    Posted Apr 9, 2017, 7:58 PM by Jason Brunken
  • Ship Breaking This week the Middle School Program began its next and final unit on Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker. This book is set in a future Earth where climate change has ...
    Posted Mar 26, 2017, 3:30 AM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 2 News

  • Thank you! I can't believe the school year is done already. Those nine months just flew by. We had a good time this year, and I hope everyone learned a lot ...
    Posted Jun 20, 2017, 2:13 AM by Jason Brunken
  • 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 24, 2017, 6:45 PM 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 24, 2017, 6:43 PM by Jason Brunken
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Grade 6 News

  • Thank You! I can't believe the school year is done already. Those nine months just flew by. We had a good time this year, and I hope everyone learned a lot ...
    Posted Jun 20, 2017, 2:16 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Countdown to Graduation 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 May 2, 2017, 7:53 AM by Jason Brunken
  • Extension Week: Making a 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 24, 2017, 7:49 AM by Jason Brunken
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