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Week of April 4-8, 2016
1,2,3,4 Who is ready for Color War??? Our annual academic enrichment version of Color War will be held Wednesday - Friday (not telling what time Color War will break out on Wednesday). Two teams, plenty of challenges and excitement!
Open House on April 13, 2016 from 9 - 11. Please spread the word to families who may be interested.
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| Ashley asks Congresswomen Wasserman Schultz questions about superdelegates. | A thrill to have Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz visit with some of our high school students. |
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Middle School Math As a warm-up activity, students go to the whiteboard and solve improper fractions. This activity also helps building their self confidence in solving math problems faster. | Middle School Science Students are learning the science of computer coding every morning for 15 minutes. The computer language students are learning is called JAVA. | Middle School Ancient Cultures Jennifer and Kai try on costumes as we research and begin production of a traditional Chinese puppet show. We are editing a few folk tales to create a medley. |
Middle School Math
Middle School Science
Middle School Ancient Cultures
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Keyboarding and WritingThis week we discussed a variety of topics, including plagiarism, research tools, and note-taking strategies as we prepare to write a persuasive essay/editorial. The students practiced a new note-taking strategy that they will use for their research papers. This week, we will practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting using appropriate citations. We will also take a look at Google Drive and learn how to use Google Docs and the resources that are available through Google add-ons. | Middle School English Students are parsing sentences for grammar and syntax, and drawing their impressions of Jorge Luis Borges's stories. | Middle School Science Art We created a scale model of our solar system and to understand how large the solar system is, we used the football field. Everyone was assigned a planet and took their respective position on the 100 yard lard. At this scale the sun is 2 thirds the size of a golf ball......Jupiter is smaller than a bob.... And earth is the size of a flea egg. Plus it's just fun to go outside. |
Keyboarding and Writing
This week we discussed a variety of topics, including plagiarism, research tools, and note-taking strategies as we prepare to write a persuasive essay/editorial. The students practiced a new note-taking strategy that they will use for their research papers.
This week, we will practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting using appropriate citations. We will also take a look at Google Drive and learn how to use Google Docs and the resources that are available through Google add-ons.
Middle School English
Middle School Science Art
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Geometry Geometry students proved why the Pythagorean Theorem works to solve right triangles. They created a square block which measured the exact square of the length of triangle side A. They did the same for side B. When they added those two areas together they found the resulting area a perfect area for the square of side C. | Physics Finally, with the sun out, students were able to test the solar oven by making s'mores! |
Geometry
Physics
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English 1 Jonathan and the class are deciding which details of Frankenstein's creation's intellectual and emotional development are simply too serendipitous even for suspended belief. We are very critical of this novel. | Freshman Latin 1 Kaitlyn assessed her facility with English "who" and "whom," applying her knowledge of the inflected case-endings of Latin. She gave herself a well-deserved A. | European History This week we began reading Night. Elie Weisel's award-winning story of his experiences during WWII. We will be exploring themes such as identity, indifference, faith, and survival as we read this moving and interesting story. |
English 1
Freshman Latin 1
European History
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European Art Matt is doing a great job with our two-point perspective that we are finally finishing up. | Geometry Art Matt is creating a design inspired by fractals and the Mandelbrot set. This is the next step after exploring perspective and the Golden Rule. This new mathematically driven imagery is responsible for cgi film effects, medical body scans, miniature cell phone antennas, and many more post-modern technological innovations. | US History art Kyle did a great job taking the lead and began weaving the palm leaves together as we began our Environmental art project. No tools...no glue...we are connecting the palms using the fiber strands from inside a coconut shell. |
European Art
Geometry Art
US History art
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High School English This week we started reading the Joy Luck Club. We read aloud in class and discussed what we read. We had a debate in class, and it was entertaining to watch everyone end up arguing with themselves. We started working as a school on our opening number for the showcase. | High School Math for College Readiness Lindsay has just completed her warm-up for today. She had demonstrated her strategy for what comes next in the pattern. | High School Algebra II It was a team approach to offering solutions to today's warm up. Kyle is answering what comes next in the pattern. Rebecca is solving a literal equation. Marley is offering her strategy for the verbal problem challenge. Braeden has completed his sketching task. |
High School English
High School Math for College Readiness
High School Algebra II
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High School US HistoryThis week the students wrote a reflective essay about our trip to the Holocaust Memorial, the Wolfsonian FIU Museum, and the performance of the opera The Passenger. We also viewed the film Focus, an historical drama about the United States at the start of WWII. We used the film to spark a discussion about the political and social atmosphere in the United States at the time. We explored the reasons why the United States held back from entering the war sooner, and continued our discussions about why it was acceptable to turn away Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi regime, and place Japanese American citizens into internment camps. This week, the students will compare and contrast how progressive technology has impacted the way information is presented and influenced our view of the world, as they create propaganda museum exhibits for a variety of historical events. The assigned events have occurred in different time periods from the Civil War to the present, in order to illustrate the growth of the importance of the use of multi-media technology over time. | High School Latin 1 The students have discovered that their knowledge of the inflected case-endings of Latin nouns and pronouns makes English far easier to understand and use. | High School Environmental/Biology Students are trying to model an ocean habitat. They are making a model of healthy coral reefs and diseased coral reefs. |
High School US History
This week the students wrote a reflective essay about our trip to the Holocaust Memorial, the Wolfsonian FIU Museum, and the performance of the opera The Passenger. We also viewed the film Focus, an historical drama about the United States at the start of WWII. We used the film to spark a discussion about the political and social atmosphere in the United States at the time. We explored the reasons why the United States held back from entering the war sooner, and continued our discussions about why it was acceptable to turn away Jewish refugees escaping the Nazi regime, and place Japanese American citizens into internment camps.
This week, the students will compare and contrast how progressive technology has impacted the way information is presented and influenced our view of the world, as they create propaganda museum exhibits for a variety of historical events. The assigned events have occurred in different time periods from the Civil War to the present, in order to illustrate the growth of the importance of the use of multi-media technology over time.
High School Latin 1
High School Environmental/Biology
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