by Leah | Jun 5, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
In mid-April all our students but one brand-new student took the Iowa Assessments Form E. These are national-standard tests, each set for a grade level. We use the tests to assess how well we are teaching, not to rank students against each other. The value for...
by Leah | Jun 1, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
May 21, 2022. In the culmination of more than a year of preparation, students in grades 3 through 8 presented the full-hour play, James and the Giant Peach, based on the story by Roald Dahl. Siblings, parents, grandparents, and teachers packed the school courtyard in...
by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
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All year students and teachers have been gathering pictures and stories about our lives in the Academy. Students then worked with former teacher Kelly Lin (now in California) to create this year’s yearbook. It’s full of hundreds of images arranged artistically and...
by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
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Friday, May 27, 2022. We always end the academic year with a picnic in the park. Especially in COVID-19 times, this is a most enjoyable way for all of us to socialize freely and celebrate all that we accomplished this year – students, parents, teachers,...
by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
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Spring semester 2022. Students in grades 3-8 each created their own books about the Solar System – our Sun, Moon, and planets. Distilling their learning over the semester, they illustrated each celestial body and wrote many telling facts about each, in fine...
by Leah | May 30, 2022 | events, News, News and Events
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Friday, May 27, 2022. We’re back into live performances! With due caution against COVID-19 out students were able to sing, recite, and act outdoors in our second courtyard. All grades were up there, K through 8, before a packed audience of parents, grandparents,...
