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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...
Halloween Party 2018, the third gallery
Here are the final 29 images:
Halloween Party 2018, the second gallery
Here they are, pictures 25-48
Halloween Party 2018, the first gallery
The first 24 of 77 still images are here:
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...
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...
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...
Self-portraits
16 October 2018: We've gotta share this - the first- and second-graders made self portraits in Kelly Lin's class!
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...
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...









