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 […]

We live in a time where paper maps have become a memory of days gone by.  If we want to find the directions to where we are going, it is as simple as typing an address in our telephone and letting our GPS do the rest.  It is definitely a lot easier to get from […]

Monmouth County’s best private school, Oak Hill Academy (OHA), has participated in the State of New Jersey’s Cybersecurity Awareness Poster Contest. The purpose of the contest is to spread awareness about how to stay safe online. OHA students discuss Cyber Safety during their computer class. They talk about using the computer with a trusted adult, not […]

Before winter break, students in third grade shared their love of reading and the season with their Pre-K buddies.  The children picked their favorite winter or holiday themed book and practiced their fluency and read aloud strategies, while entertaining their buddies.  We are happy to be building relationships and friendships between the older and younger […]

Navigating through the Nordic countries with the first stop at Norway. Students have taken roles as topographers, navigators through the fjords, designing tools to eat Norwegian foods, constructing snow covered mountains from marshmallows and measuring heights. Creative and one-of-a-kind trolls help tell the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and unique bridge building.  Other […]