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Upper Elementary Overnight Adventure - Sound to Sea
Our Sea and Sound explorers made many wonderful discoveries as they learned about the barrier island’s variety of ecosystems and the...
kathleen McIntyre
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Upper El (Mr. D): Point A to Point B
Upper El may be on their field trip, but that doesn't mean nothing's happened this week! Last week, students finished writing their...
Derek Henig
Oct 29, 20212 min read


Upper El (Mr. D): Great Observers
Our afternoon's this week have introduced a lot of new things. First, on Monday, we started what I'm calling our "Field Notes." We went...
Derek Henig
Oct 15, 20212 min read


Upper El (Mr. D): Characters Speak!
Writing stories involves a lot of different pieces. This week, we spoke about... speaking! In what ways can we use dialogue in our...
Derek Henig
Oct 11, 20212 min read


Upper El - The Slalom (Ms. Shannon)
In searching for a theme of the week, ‘variations’ may be a good choice. In fact, it felt a bit like a slalom. In the News As a...
shannon7481
Oct 8, 20213 min read


Upper El (Mr. D): New Species
Our afternoons this week were full of writing and continuing our Evolution Project with a fun "game" I created to better understand...
Derek Henig
Oct 3, 20212 min read


Upper El (Ms. Shannon) - “Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all….
“Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all, my worries seem so very small, with my waterfall.” Jimi Hendrix The highlight of the week for the...
shannon7481
Oct 1, 20212 min read


Upper El (Mr. D): Natural Selection
This week we started new stories and continued our quest to explore the topic of Life by diving into Darwinian Evolution. For our...
Derek Henig
Sep 24, 20212 min read


UE (Mr. D): Paper Bridges
This week, in the afternoon, we finished our first stories for the year and had fun with our first Engineering challenge! Before we began...
Derek Henig
Sep 10, 20212 min read


UE (Mr. D): Stories and Bangs
This week we started our story writing and explored the origins of our Universe! We started things off on Monday by introducing our...
Derek Henig
Sep 3, 20212 min read


Upper El: First week!
We're back, and it's been a great first week! We dove into our science theme for the year and explored our creativity and how it applies...
Derek Henig
Aug 27, 20212 min read


Upper El: Our last weeks
It's been an amazing last couple of weeks with our group—field trip to Green River, finishing our engineering project, and some heartfelt...
Derek Henig
May 25, 20211 min read


Upper El (5/3-7): Static Flyers & Visitors
Well, this was a short week! The biggest part of the week was, of course, our group's trip to Green River! I was so excited to hear about...
Derek Henig
May 7, 20212 min read


Upper El (4/26-30): White Water Center!
This week was full of a lot of fun! We learned a couple of different methods for coming up with ideas for our stories, we looked for some...
Derek Henig
May 2, 20212 min read


Upper El (4/19-23): S'mores!
A lot happened this week! Students finished their Historical Fiction short stories, we finally got to cook in our solar ovens, introduced...
Derek Henig
Apr 25, 20212 min read


Upper El (4/12-16): Convection!
This week we started a new story writing assignment about historical fiction, and we explored convection and its effect on our World....
Derek Henig
Apr 16, 20211 min read


Upper El (3/29 - 4/1): Testing Ovens
"This week"—I know I'm writing this a bit later than usual—we started our unit on Thermal Energy, finished building our solar ovens,...
Derek Henig
Apr 11, 20212 min read


Upper El (3/22-26): Science Fair!
We finally had our Science Fair this week, and, "wow!" am I impressed with our group! Thank you to all the parents for coming to support...
Derek Henig
Mar 26, 20212 min read


Sustainability in Action!
Middle Schoolers took a fantastic trip to Boomerang Water, where Jason Dibble inspired them to be change-makers in the world. He...
kathleen McIntyre
Mar 21, 20211 min read


Upper El (3/15 - 19): Building Boxes
This week, students took a recap quiz on our Radiant Energy unit, wrote stories with the same ending (given by Mr. Derek), completed the...
Derek Henig
Mar 19, 20212 min read
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