Sept 26

  Announcements - 

• 10/1   6th Grade Picture Day
• 10/2   Lower School Fun Run 9 am (in the lower field)
• 10/10  No School - Teacher In-service day
• 10/13  No School - VI PR Friendship Day
• 10/24  Parent-Teacher Conferences
• 10/31  Halloween Ghost Walk (costume parade) and Boo Bash/Trunk-or-treat
• Just to let you know, I will be out of school 10/16-20.

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Morning Meeting topics: Fun Run support videos highlighting courage, curiosity, and teamwork

• Math
• Square and cube roots, integers (they will have math homework this week)
• MashUp Math brain challenges

• English
• Latin root words: -rupt- (interrupt, disrupt, rupture)
• Reading groups - What pressures act upon our characters that effect their behavior? They also practiced writing about reading
• Simple, Compound, and Complex sentences - definitions, identifying

• Science
• States of matter, changes in state of matter

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• working on Neolithic time period newspapers (and partnership practice!)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

It was great seeing many of you at Open House. I appreciated the questions, support, and honest conversations. Parent-Teacher conferences will be coming up, and we will let you know your assigned time slot. If it does not work for you or you cannot meet that day then we can discuss a different time to meet.

THANK YOU to all who have donated to our Fun Run or shared the link for donations. The students are excited to see where we land in the rankings, but we are all excited for what we are able to do with the monies raised. Great things have come from our previous Fun Runs!

Photo Week Lineup:

Monday, 9/29

• Nursery-3rd Grade
• Ms. Coles' & Mr. Greenidge's Advisory
• All 9th Grade Students

Tuesday, 9/30

• 4th & 5th Grade
• Ms. Driscoll's & Ms. Prentice's Advisory
• All 10th Grade Students

Wednesday, 10/1

• 6th Grade
• All 11th Grade Students
• Faculty Members

Thursday, 10/2

• All 12th Grade Students

PHOTOS:

9/19/25

 Announcements - 

• 9/22   Fun Run Pep Rally for LS 
• 9/23-24 Fall STAR math test Tuesday, STAR reading test Wednesday
• 9/25   Lower School Parent Night - 4pm
• 10/1   6th Grade Picture Day
• 10/2   Lower School Fun Run 9 am (in the lower field)

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Morning Meeting topics: highlighting Hispanic Heritage Month (Severo Ochoa, George Melendez Wright, Ruth Gonzalez)
• Skill building: study methods, gathering info from texts

• Math
• Review integers, rules of divisibility
• Lowest Common Multiple, Greatest Common Factor
• MashUp Math brain challenges

• English
• Sentence Stalking lessons (look closer at structure and punctuation in sentences)
• Latin root words: identified and discussed words 
• Reading groups - how we see a character can change in light of new information or events
• Monologues - drafted and shared with each other

• Science
• Reviewed cells, learned about tissues and organs
• created study flash cards

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Life of early humans, migration, start of farming
• Catal Huyuk

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

- To support our environment, and Senior student Maya's vision of a plastic free campus, we are asking students to remember to bring their own utensils for lunch. There will be compostable forks available for sale in Ms. Thatcher's office, in case any student happens to need one. The proceeds will go to support continued "green" efforts.

- Homework: On occasion there will be homework. Your student should be writing their assignments in their planner. If we have something to add to the planner, we take the time to do that at the end of the day. Over the last two weeks, the math homework has been intended as review and practice work. It has allowed me to gain further insight into their understanding of the content. Students always have the opportunity to come to me with any homework questions, and I was happy to work with a few this week who did. Please also continue to encourage reading as a regular homework assignment. Right now your child should have a book of their choosing to be reading at home and at school. It's great to hear them excitedly discuss their books with peers!

- Photos - 

9/12/25

 - Announcements - 

• 9/22   Fun Run Pep Rally for LS
• 9/25   Lower School Parent Night
• 9/29-10/3  Picture Week, more details to come
• 10/2   Lower School Fun Run 9 am

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting/wellness
• Morning Meeting topics: highlighting the daily colors, silly woodcock bird walk, would you rather, practice fire drill

• Math
• Working with positive and negative integers
• Finding Lowest Common Multiple
• MashUp Math brain challenges

• English
• Sentence Stalking lessons (look closer at structure and punctuation in sentences)
• Latin root words: -form- and -port-
• Reading groups - taking a closer look at main characters and their traits
• Start of our first Cambridge unit, "Adventure"!

• Science
• Plant and animal cells, including specialized cells (neurons, cilia, red blood cells)
• Investigating cells under a microscope
• Students created plant cell models and discussed how models can help, and how they might be flawed
• Fun with shrinky-dinks! (making cells)

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Review of Geography skills
• Making maps of St. Croix
• Discussion about archaeology and how we learn about humans long ago

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

- Photos -