This week, students wrote one scene scripts, which they all got to act out together Friday afternoon. We also began our Solar Oven...

A week in the sunshine with Upper El was amazing. We wrote fanfiction stories this week, and our unit on radiant energy came to a close...

This week, our weekly stories were all about mysteries, and we continued learning about light and how it travels. For stories, in the...

This week, our main focus was on finishing our Science Fair reports and boards, which we did! On Thursday, we explored the next lesson on...

This week we discussed adding details to our setting in our stories and put a lot of work into our Science Fair Project. On Monday, we...

This week we explored two different categories of writers and how that might help each student work through their stories. We also moved...

This week we dove into creating character growth in our stories, made progress on our Science Fair reports, and began our new unit on...

This week’s focus was on why stream restoration is necessary. We discussed how streams are altered to accommodate human use, such as...

This week, whether on zoom or a field trip, students learned about the importance of riparian zones and how they function. We also...

We finally got to launch our rockets this week, and it was a blast! 😂 In writing stories this week, we learned about all the different...

Our first week back after the break, we wrote new stories, began building bottle rockets, and learned how chemical energy is used in the...

Riparian zones are intriguing and valuable ecosystems, which happen to be an essential part of your child’s experience at DGS. Throughout...

We had a lot of fun in our last week before break. We did an experiment to help with our Bottle Rocket project (which we'll start when we...

This week, we explored how chemistry and chemical energy is at work in our bodies. We also dedicated extra time towards our Science Fair,...

This week, in the afternoons, was denoted as "spy week." Our weekly story prompt was "spy," we learned how to make invisible ink and...

This week we repeated the writing assignment of writing speeches, learned how to make molecules, and felt the difference between...

We continued our study of maps this week by focusing our attention on topographic maps.  Students learned about contour line...

* We also had a Falcon right above us during class on Monday. Not the best picture, but it was so cool! This week, we introduced our new...

This week was a lot of fun! Students completed their two-week story, we finished our unit on Elastic Energy, and we launched our...

Our Middle School has begun its micronation project.  Mapping their “nation” is one aspect of this collaborative project.  Taking the...