In honor of Earth Day, after reading many books on the topic, each 2nd grader chose a problem they were passionate about.  They created a superhero to help save the day!  They wrote about what they would do to help the earth as this superhero.  They then created comic strips about an adventure they had […]

If you give a child the chance to inquire, explore, and collaborate, amazing things happen in the classroom. The fourth grade has spent an hour each week doing just that. Our first Investigation project was “Where do big ideas come from?”. First, we inquired about our everyday lives looking for problems that would lead us […]

At the beginning of the school year, the sixth graders wrote their reading autobiographies, chronicling their reading lives from as far back as they could remember to current time. They included favorite stories that Mom and Dad read to them during their toddler years, the first chapter book they read on their own…as well as […]

Mrs. Tirella’s seventh grade Literature classes did an investigative study of William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre.  Using a Station Rotation model with Blended Learning on the computer, our class researched ten facts about Shakespeare’s life and ten facts about the Globe.  They also became “groundlings for a day” and read a selection about visiting […]

World Read Aloud Day was founded in 2010 as an opportunity for people all around the globe to celebrate the joy of reading aloud and advocate for literacy as a fundamental human right that belongs to everyone. This year, grades 1-4 celebrated this event together on Wednesday, February 5.  Students met in the Commons and […]

The sixth grade Math Workshop classes at Oak Hill Academy, a New Jersey Independent School, have been studying the mathematics of nutrition.      Each student brought in an empty cereal box with the exact cost written on the box.  They collected much data about their cereals, including the brand, the weight of their box, the cost of […]

The Cambridge Latin Course has replaced our previous Latin text, Ecce Romani. I was introduced to the Cambridge Latin method this past summer at a workshop I attended, along with other local Latin teachers from High Tech and CBA.  The Cambridge course has two main objectives; to teach comprehension of the Latin language for reading […]