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Earth Day posters 2022

Earth Day posters 2022

April 25... a bit of delay to avoid the ferocious winds on the 22nd! Our students in grades 3-8 created their individual posters during the week of Earth Day.  They're passionate about the environment, rightly so. They put a lot of thought and work into their posters....

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Animals, more animals, and ice cream

Animals, more animals, and ice cream

April 21st, 2022: We just finished 3 half-days of the Iowa Assessment tests, so it was time for a break - a trip to Landmark Mercantile in Mesquite.  What's there? For one, a lot of interesting animals, goats, an ostrich, three emus, a pot-bellied pig, longhorn...

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Marble mazes by young students

April 1, 2022. Engineering club for grades 1 & 2: students made marble mazes out of Legos, in clever designs.  Here two students navigate theirs with a marble. Shades of the 1950s! Thanks to our engineer club volunteers Elizabeth Brasher, Jessica Houston, Erin...

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Go for the challenge in Math Kangaroo

Go for the challenge in Math Kangaroo

March 19, 2022. Go for the challenge in Math Kangaroo!  Morgan and Alex, 5th-graders. took the  competitive exam on Saturday, March 19th, on the NMSU campus. This is an international competition, and an event aimed at fun in solving math puzzles of high order.  In...

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Beautiful cursive

Beautiful cursive

March 15, 2022. Our students have been learning cursive writing for years.  Today that gives them a bit of a superpower.  They can take notes faster than by printing.  They can read many historic documents. They'll be able to write checks and read them.  Then, there's...

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Kindergarten with art

Kindergarten with art

March 2, 2022.  Teacher Katie Bushma engaged our 8 kindergarten students in creating art. They get a full and enjoyable program of handwriting, reading, spelling, math, music, art, Chinese, and Spanish.

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Engineering club – egg drop test

Engineering club – egg drop test

February 28, 2022.  See if your parachute works to protect your raw egg dropped from our little viewing platform. Our students in grades 3-8 had a good day, in yet another biweekly run of our engineering and Legos club. Teacher Elizabeth Brasher founded the club,...

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Kindergarten 100 days, words and art

Kindergarten 100 days, words and art

28 January 2022: The kindergarteners created art, particularly studying perspective as they drew buildings various scales and view angles. They also wrote 100 words to celebrate their 100th day of school, and for another celebration of 100 they made collages of 10...

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Choir chimes

Choir chimes

28 January 2022: Another rewarding way to teach music and enjoy it: Yesterday, the choir chime set we bought on eBay arrived.  Such beautiful tones from each of the 25 chimes, which cover 2 full octaves.  The students have all learned to read music from multi-talented...

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