Our brave Principal Faustina volunteered to be taped to the cafeteria wall on Friday, March 25th to help raise money for the PTSA. Over 1100 RMB was raised to benefit the Basketball and Volleyball read more →
This week in Early Years, we’ve been exploring the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. This is a wonderful theme for using and developing receptive and expressive language skills, as it relies upon that which is experienced directly by students through their senses. Because the five senses theme is based on what children.. read more →
SLAS Primary and Secondary students competed in our 2016 Science Fair on March 16, 17 & 18. Projects included a wide variety of fascinating topics including experiments on brain chemistry, aerodynamics, and forensics. The top awards in Primary are: K-A: Sophie Clark K-B: Riku Hayata Grade 1: Gold Medal – Antonina Godlewska Silver Medal – Itsuka.. read more →
This week Preschool A kicked off our new Science Basics unit with an exploration of Color Theory! Through stories, songs, and some exciting hands on fun we’ve delighted in learning all about primary (red, yellow, blue) and secondary (orange, green, purple) colors! The children delighted in the books Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet, A.. read more →
4th Grade had a busy week with the Primary Science Fair. The Students presented their projects to the class on Monday. In Writing, the students wrote a procedural composition. We are quite busy learning about area and perimeter in Math. read more →
Grade 8 US History Students have been making connections between America’s Progressive period at the beginning of the 20th century and the current status of American Politics, Culture, Lifestyle and Economy. The students are continuing to improve and master SOAPSTone as an analytical tool of document analysis, continuing to categorize textual evidence into the SPICE.. read more →
Book month is in full swing! This week in Nursery Class we learned about nursery rhymes. We reviewed some nursery rhymes we’ve already learned in class (Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Twinkle, twinkle little star) and we teach new ones Humpty Dumpty, I’m a little teapot and Hey diddle diddle. To help illustrate this nursery.. read more →
4th & 5th Grade Field Trip to Da Vinci Exhibit SLAS 4th and 5th graders went on a field trip this week to visit Da Vinci The Genius Exhibit. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the students to learn about this amazing artist and inventor. The students were guided through the.. read more →
We are currently working on writing informative and explanatory essays to examine a topic. Students need to be able to introduce a topic clearly, develop the topic with relevant facts and examples, and provide a concluding statement that follows from the information presented. Students have also been asked to thoroughly edit their essays with conventions.. read more →
Our students and faculty celebrated Literacy Week and Dr. Seuss’s Birthday this week with a variety of activities. Our upper Primary students, Secondary students, and teachers visited our younger ones and read interesting stories. Classrooms decorated their doors with literacy themed designs. Our students read over 100,000 minutes combined during the week celebrating the.. read more →
