4/24/2026

                 Announcements - 

• 5/25 - No School
• 6/2 - Lower School Concert
• 6/5 - No School faculty workshop
• 6/8 - **6th Grade Beach Day (tentative date)
• 6/10 - 1pm Lower School field day
• 6/11 - Last Day! (full day of school)

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Earth Day and Arbor Day discussions: cutting down on waste from our snacks/meals, deforestation, history of satellites (viewing our planet over time)

• Math
• Sequence and patterns: review and test
• "Trashketball" Order of operations practice/review game
• MashUp Math: Earth Day (order of operations)

• English
• Root -ped-
• Information EBooks: research trails, identifying chapter topics, looking at mentor examples
• MYSTERY (genre) Reading Groups! After discussions about the features of mystery stories we read a Sherlock Holmes play to practice identifying those elements and taking notes about witnesses/suspects/clues, etc. Then, students chose from 6 book options and learned who their reading group members will be. They will begin the books this week, so they should be reading at home!

• Science
• Unit 5 test
• Begin Unit 6: Earth Physics - Read about how sound works, students participated in a hands-on lab about sound/sound waves!

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• China: learned about 2 more dynasties of China and their achievements. Students also travelled the Silk Road to learn about the many different goods traded and why the route was so important (wealth, communication, acquisition of goods, spread of Buddhism)

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4/17/2026

                  Announcements - 

• 5/25 - No School
• 6/5 - No School faculty workshop
• 6/10 - 1pm Lower School field day
• 6/11 - Last Day! (full day of school)

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Christiansted tour! Thank you so much to Ranger Gwilliam, our chaperone Mrs. McCants, and Carla Reece (Carmelo's mom) for the delicious tarts and Danish cookies (an island treat)!
• Earth Month: (mini lessons and student notetaking) how satellites help and hinder global warming, great pacific garbage patch

• Math
• Sequence and patterns: review sequences and patterns lessons from last week, nth term, function machines
• MashUp Math: I see, I think, I wonder

• English
• Root -ject-
• Intro to Information Books and begin research (The class will be using previous and new research to generate Ebooks about climate change. The overall topic is assigned, but they get to choose the chapter sub-topics based on interest and research trail!) 

• Science
• Climate change and its effect on animals -- students finished their research then presented their findings
• Review properties of metals and non-metals, acids and alkalis
• Learned about how coral was used as a building material (blocks and mortar)

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• China: Reading and discussion about geography, Early dynasties

PHOTOS:

4/10/2026

                 Announcements - 

• 4/17 - Field Trip to Christiansted (town tour and picnic lunch on fort lawn)
• 5/25 - No School

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• March/April Madness Book match off! Round one complete!
• Earth Month Kickoff - learning about climate change, renewable energy

• Math
• Symmetry: review and test
• Start new chapter about sequences and patterns
• MashUp Math

• English
• Discussed and identified features of information texts
• Analyzed mentor text
• Research a city in the world and construct a travel article 

• Science
• Alloys, acids and alkalis, graphing data
• Climate Change: weather vs climate, causes, effects on animals 

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Ancient India  - map practice, review and test
• Intro to China! Mapping (geography of China, labelling features)

PHOTOS: Sorry, none this week

4/02/2026

                Announcements - 

• 4/3 and 4/6  -  No School, Easter weekend
• 4/17 - Field Trip to Christiansted (tour town and picnic lunch on fort lawn)
• 5/25 - No School

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• March/April Madness Book match off! Lower school classes will be reading 2 books a day and voting on their favorite until we find the LS Favorite Book!
• Autism awareness

• Math
• Symmetry: shapes (edges, faces, vertices), congruency, graphing symmetry, understanding viewpoints of 3D shapes (front view, top view, etc.)
• MashUp Math

• English
• Root word: tens, tend
• Claim essays - conclusions, peer editing
• Language focus - sentence structure and use of punctuation

• Science
• New Unit: Properties of Materials, metal vs non-metal, definitions, mystery substance identification

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Ancient India  - complete projects
• Compared ancient India to other civilizations covered so far

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