Student-initiated letter

Student-initiated letter

25 January – 2 March 2019. A recent session of grades 4-8 science on light and energy led naturally  to a discussion of climate change. The ramifications of climate change for society led  6th-grader Erika to propose that the students as a group write a letter...
Fun in school – Valentine’s Day

Fun in school – Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day, 2019: Our school is fun as well as strongly academic. Every day students play at recess, in PE, after school in our extended hours (no charge)…and on special days when we have celebrations. Here are images from the Valentine’s Day party...
A biochemist visits

A biochemist visits

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On Thursday, 14 February 2019 (yes, Valentine’s Day), Dr. Kevin Houston, Kaleb’s dad and a Prof. at NMSU, visited. He engaged the class to learn about DNA being transcribed to messenger RNA and that being translated into the sequence of amino acids, or proteins.  He...
Lunch, Chinese style

Lunch, Chinese style

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5 February 2019: Today we celebrated Chinese New Year with a taste-treat of a lunch; students used chopsticks, some of them for the first time, and got to keep decorated chopsticks that Head of School Dr. Lou Ellen Kay brought back from Japan. We integrate subjects at...
Student-initiated letter

A great start for the Spring 2019 semester

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5 February 2019: The spring semester is off with a flying start. We have 3 new students this semester, in grades 1-2, 4, and 8. One student moved out of state, so we’re at 43 students now. Our diversity continues to grow, and we celebrate that. We’ve also had another...