April 8 – April 12, 2024

Our highlights from this week:

“My highlight was reading class this week” – William Siebert

“My favorite thing this week was Tigger. Tigger is a service dog in training. He visited the Academy and came into the classroom to say hello. He seemed to like me!”

– Isaac West

“My favorite thing we did this week was going to the yearbook club. We did three different activities which were making a scrapbook, painting a rock for the garden, and painting a flower for the auction project.”

– Devon Mueller

“This week was meeting Tigger the service dog in training.

He was sweet, gentle, and kind.”

– Eva Johns

What we learned: 

This week, I learned about the extinction of the Dodo bird and how the solar eclipse works.”

– William Siebert

“I really enjoyed learning about the tundra, there are so many types of tundra, the climate and land stuff is cool and there is a surprising amount of animals.”

– Isaac West 

“My other favorite was the Oreo moons we made in science.” – Devon Mueller

“This week I learned about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln a fun fact is Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President.”

– Eva Johns 

Field Trip on Tuesday

This week in history, we continued learning about the US Constitution. We learned about the concept of federalism and talked about the last three articles of the Constitution that discuss the amendment process, the Supremacy Clause, and the process for ratifying the Constitution.

This week in ELA we explored the writing styles of Nathaniel Hawthorne with his short stories “The Golden Touch” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”. We learned that his Puritan upbringing had a major influence on the moral lessons found within both of his tales. Next week we will be looking at a variety of pieces by Emily Dickinson.

We wrapped up our unit on Terrestrial Biomes this week in Environmental Science,  as we learned all about the driest biomes on the planet, the Tundra, and the Desert. We will be finishing Chapter Five over the next two weeks as we cover the Aquatic Biomes. Students will be receiving their study guides for the end-of-the-year exam by the end of the month! Group 3 will be working on an end-of-the-year project- be on the lookout for more details soon!!!

This week in history, we continued learning about the American Revolution. We talked about George Washington’s role in leading the colonists to victory, and Benjamin Franklin’s role as the first Postmaster General, and we started learning about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.