Animals, more animals, and ice cream

by Leah | Apr 21, 2022 | Uncategorized

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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,...

Marble mazes by young students

by Leah | Apr 5, 2022 | Uncategorized

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...

Go for the challenge in Math Kangaroo

by Leah | Mar 21, 2022 | News and Events

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

by Leah | Mar 20, 2022 | News and Events

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,...

Kindergarten with art

by Leah | Mar 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

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

by Leah | Feb 28, 2022 | News and Events

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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

by Leah | Jan 30, 2022 | News and Events

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

by Leah | Jan 30, 2022 | News and Events

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

by Leah | Jan 24, 2022 | News and Events

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…. Like the classic quiz game.  Teacher Arielle Lane engages the students in a rewarding...

Christmas cards in Chinese

by Leah | Jan 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

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Imagination – students created Christmas cards in Chinese class in December, 2021.  They generated their ideas, wrote their cards in fine characters, and decorated the...