Ms. Ammendola’s language arts classes are learning both the spelling of words and the meanings. They created a vocabulary set for their words in Quizlet to help them practice by playing games and taking tests. In addition, the students illustrated the words in order to maintain a mental image in their minds. For each vocabulary […]
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Students in Ms. Ammendola’s social studies classes practice map skills each week. They are given an activity for a specific location or event in history and use an atlas to find the answers.
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One of the Mentor Room students prepares to give his report on Teddy Roosevelt.
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Ms. Ammendola’s social studies classes created Power Point presentations on famous historical people. The 5th and 6th grade students helped the 4th grade students cite their resources and create transitions. Then, the students presented their projects to the class.
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Seniors in Ms. Hrabosky’s British literature classes read A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in class over several weeks. Students enjoyed reading the play in Shakespearean as well as presenting their character lines in different voices, tones, and dialects which gave them a change of pace from our everyday vernacular English. Once the unit was […]
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It is officially spring! Ms. Hrabosky helped her English students hop into spring by learning about the vernal equinox which happened last Friday. During the vernal equinox, day and night have equal length. The position of the sun causes this to happen. During an equinox, the sun’s rays shine perpendicular to Earth. There are only […]
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The K-8/PACE programs ate lunch at The Varsity restaurant before settling in to watch James and the Giant Peach at The Alliance Theatre. It was a terrific opportunity to take advantage of two iconic venues in Atlanta!. Thank you to all of our wonderful parents and staff for making this possible. It was a great […]
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In literature class, the seventh graders are reading The War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara. When an artist from New York begins painting on a wall in their small Southern town, the narrator and his cousin are outraged. After reading the story, the students wrote a paragraph to describe what picture they would […]
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Students in Language Arts class are busy sketching old western maps based on the story; “A Covered Wagon Girl, The Diary of Sallie Hester 1849-1850.” The journey begins in Bloomington, Indiana and ends in San Jose, California. Students recreate the journey by drawing visuals to show each stop along the way. It is quite a […]
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The 4th grade science class investigates how distance changes the effects of an earthquake.
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