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An animated periodic table of the chemical elements
The students in grades 4-8 worked with teacher and Board Chair Vince Gutschick to create a very animated periodic table of the chemical elements. It responds to commands from a viewer using 4 buttons to offer any of 5 presentations about the elements, such as...
End of term performances
December 17, 2016, 5 PM onward. Near the end of every semester, we celebrate our students' accomplishments with an evening of much song in three languages - English, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. This time our younger students signed and sang Christmas songs in...
Christmas songs in sign language
December 7, 2016. Early K - K teacher Arielle Lane teaches American Sign Language to our younger students. The Christmas songs are buoyant. cimg4443
Archery is back
November 28 - December 16, 2016: the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is loaning us their trailer with bows, arrows, targets, and safety curtains. Jeremy Lane came back again to help us. Students have fun and learn a fine physical skill with a great deal of...
Scholastic book fair success
Our Scholastic Book Fair started on November 18th and resumed for two weeks after Thanksgiving. Scholastic ships us books to display every year, at our request. Students enjoyed perusing so many books; we made sure that the books covered all our age levels. We gained...
Chemistry experiment
December 7, 2016. In middle-school science class, we're learning about chemical reactions and catalysis with a very quantitative bent. We're synthesizing ethyl acetate from a balanced (equimolar) combination of ordinary alcohol (ethanol) and acetic acid, with some...
Happy birthday in 3 languages
November 17, 2016: For each child's birthday, at snack time we have a little party. Our students sing "Happy birthday" in...