On Tuesday 12/15, our campus will be engaging in our first whole school virtual exhibition.

Teachers will send our schedules of when our scholars will be presenting. Below is an overview of what each grade will be learning about in the coming weeks and what you will see during exhibition 1 presentations.

If you have a requested time for when you can see your scholar present (between 8:00-12:40) please email their house teachers directly.

6th Grade:

Since the beginning of human history, people have struggled to ensure that they have access to healthy food on a daily basis. 1 in 6 children in the US and 40 million Americans total are food insecure everyday. Globally 2 billion people are food insecure. As a result, many experience poor nutrition, poor health, and in some cases death.

*Students will explore how food insecurity influences food production and art.

7th Grade:

People all over the world deal with natural disasters while also striving to maintain a strong sense of community. Your job is to design a space and a system that meets the needs of your community within the context of your area’s threat of death and destruction by natural disasters.

8th Grade:

Students in groups of 3-4 will use the engineering design process to create a Rube Goldberg machine. This will utilizes the concept of Science by energy transformations, it will include math by showing graphical transformations , and by representing cultural transformations in our world it will represent the concept of Humanities.

HS: Grades 9-12

As population across the globe continues to grow exponentially, the reality of nuclear technology as a means of power both politically and environmentally, needs to be addressed as we move forward as a planet.

In this project, students will explore nuclear technology in areas of weapons, power, environmental impact, and/or social equity and make a case for its advancement or cessation supported by historical context, scientific construction and advancement and mathematical realities of nuclear fission.

“Across the country, more than 8 million students are missing so many days of school that they are academically at risk. Chronic absence — missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason—excused, unexcused absences and suspensions, can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school.” – Attendance Works

Attendance Tips

• Establish routines - bedtime, homework time, etc.
• Use an alarm clock or phone to wake up in time for school.
• Use Parentvue to check attendance.
• Talk to your child about the importance of attendance.
• Try not to schedule appointments during the school day (book on Wednesday or Asynchronous time)

Contact your counselor if you want support with your child’s attendance!

Ms. Benitez grades 8-12 – ebenitez@fwps.org; (619) 436 – 5774 (call or text)

Mrs. Robinson grades 6 & 7 – crobonso@fwps.org; (619) 452-0475 (call or text)

For the first 10 weeks of Wellness 4 Wolves, we will be utilizing WhyTry’s Parent guide to talk about resilience and ideas to support our wellbeing, and the wellbeing of our families.

“The purpose of this Parent’s Guide is to help you increase resilience in yourself as well as in your children. The definition of resilience and the skills and attributes for developing it will become clear in future chapters. We know you’re busy. Raising a family is no easy task. So we’ve organized the chapters to make them easier to read – even skim if you need to.”