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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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
Math Jeopardy
.... Like the classic quiz game. Teacher Arielle Lane engages the students in a rewarding challenge:
Christmas cards in Chinese
Imagination - students created Christmas cards in Chinese class in December, 2021. They generated their ideas, wrote their cards in fine characters, and decorated the cards.
Haiku
May, 2021 - Students in grades 3-8 in Ms. Elizabeth's English class engaged their creativity in both poetry and art to make these haiku. We all appreciated seeing them posted on the wall in their classroom.
Testimonials anew
Our students and their parents have a real affection for the school. Here is a sampling of what students and parents have written to us: I probably haven’t said it enough over these last 7 years – because I just can’t thank you enough for the incredible job that you...