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Halloween Party 2018

Halloween Party 2018

31 October 2018, when else!  Students Janaki and Erika planned a gala for all the students, aided by teachers and a number of parents.  They created games galore, with rewards. Many people took photos and videos.  Seventy-seven of Vince and Lou Ellen's still images...

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Dia de Los Muertos, 2018

Dia de Los Muertos, 2018

2 November 2018: The  plaza in the Town of Mesilla came alive, in two senses, with remembrances of the dead, in the traditional Day of the Dead.  Our students visited and took away a different view of death.  We value diverse cultures in our school, with its very...

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Intriguing chemistry classes – the full story

Intriguing chemistry classes – the full story

29 October 2018: We wrote up all the details of the experiment of the previous two weeks, exploring the chemical reaction of beautiful, rose-red phenolphthalein dye (not misspelled!  It's fen-ohl-thay-leen), for which we ranged beyond chemistry to electronics, light...

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Fun with chemistry

Fun with chemistry

15-26 October 2018: Here, our students in grades 4-7 science measure the rate of a chemical reaction, the decolorization of beautiful rose-red phenolphthalein.  We did a lot of background study of light, electronics, chemistry, math, and construction techniques.  At...

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Vignettes of classes

Vignettes of classes

15 October 2018: students play tennis, sing in Spanish (they also know Chinese, English, and a bit of other languages, all starting in kindergarten), and watch our piano being tuned as a real-life experience.  Our piano is being readied for our end-of-term student...

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Students at work in small classes

Students at work in small classes

10 October 2018.  We've split up classes so that there's even more individual attention.  Here are classes in early K/K (easy to guess which one; Arielle is the teacher), grades 1 & 2 (teacher: Kelly), and social studies 4-7 (Elizabeth). [unitegallery...

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