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 →

22 Mar 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Primary: Busy Bees in 4th Grade

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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 →

22 Mar 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Secondary: American History & Geography

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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 →

14 Mar 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016

Early Years-Nursery learned about nursery rhymes

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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 →

14 Mar 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016

Primary

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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 →

08 Mar 2016
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Literacy Week at SLAS!

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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 →

This week, as part of our Literacy Week, we celebrated the work of DR. Seuss in the Early Years department. We had so much fun reading his books and completed fun activities according to the stories. We designed new hats for the cat, made green eggs and ham from play dough and best of all.. read more →

This week has been Literacy Week and it has been a great opportunity to celebrate the importance of reading.  We have been taking time each day to discuss how reading affects our lives every day. We celebrated Dr. Seuss’s Birthday by dressing up for Wacky Wednesday!  Fifth grade students also came to read Dr. Seuss.. read more →

08 Mar 2016
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Secondary Senior Project Presentations

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The Senior English classes are focused on the completion of the Senior Research paper, which is a school requirement for all senior students. The students are writing a formal research paper on an independently selected topic. The topic must be concerning a problem or issue of importance that affects the global community (world issue). Students are.. read more →