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Weekly Summary: Glazing Bisked Clay – Muons – Art

A variety of glaze options were presented to the Muons. The could choose between primary colors or glazes with effects.  The first half of the Muons already glazed a few weeks ago. This week, the other half finished up. Since

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Weekly Summary: 100 Point challenge – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

Weekly Summary: 100 Point challenge – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

For the last gym class this school year, we reviewed what we had done all year. Kids first got to say what they remembered and demonstrate / practice together. This was the prep for our 100 point challenge (an appendix

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Weekly Summary: Eiffel Tower/marble maze – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Weekly Summary: Eiffel Tower/marble maze – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

The Neutrons and Electrons had two engineering projects to choose from this week… a group project of building an Eiffel Tower out of newspaper, or a solo project creating a marble maze using cardboard and popsicle sticks. Interestingly enough, most

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Weekly Summary: Kicking and soccer – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

Weekly Summary: Kicking and soccer – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

We used the beautiful weather today to make it feel like summer! For warmup, we used hula hoops to hula on our waist and arms, jump through them and play games with the hoops. Then we switched to a beach

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Weekly Summary: Metal Tooling – Quarks – Art

Weekly Summary: Metal Tooling – Quarks – Art

Last week we experimented with metal tooling. Each kiddo created their own design on paper first. We then taped that over a piece of heavy gauge aluminum and used paint brush handles to trace over that design effectively embossing the

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Weekly Summary: Nature Story telling – Neutrons – Nature Study

This week we took our story-telling skills from last week and honed in on natural elements to weave into our stories. We attempted to take a hike, but the trail we chose was a bit wet, to say the least,

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Weekly Summary: Rocks – Quarks – STEM

We continued our rock discussions this week. We began with a classification activity where they had to cut and paste pictures of rocks and decide if they were igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. There were some healthy discussions about how how

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Weekly Summary: Pi Celebration – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

Weekly Summary: Pi Celebration – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM

In honor of Pi Day (3/14) we spent STEM discussing all things pi. We had a reading of Sir Cumfrence and the Dragon of Pi and then played a dice game based on the digits of pi. I had another

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Weekly Summary: Paragraphs Part 1: Evidence! – Muons – Writer’s Workshop

As we’re beginning to draft our essays, I reviewed the basics of evidence and its role in argument (generally) and body paragraphs (specifically). Most students REALLY struggle with finding and explaining evidence, so I tried to normalize that struggle. Indeed,

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Weekly Summary: Lunges – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

Weekly Summary: Lunges – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym

The focus of this week’s class was lunges. We talked a bit about form and what muscles are involved (quadriceps and gluts are the main ones but the core along with some calf muscles are also very important! The muons

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