We just received word that one of our juniors has qualified for the National Merit Scholarship. Our student scored among the 50,000 highest scoring participants out of 1.5 million students. It is a huge honor for a student and the school just to qualify for the program.
Our Kindergarteners LOVE to read! We began the school year with many of my students only knowing some letters and sounds and now they are all reading one and two vowel words! At first we learned the names and sounds of our short vowels and then added consonants. We then began to blend them ...
This year in the sophomore and junior literature class, one of the books we read was John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. As we read, I encouraged my students to think about migration and to do research in their family histories about stories of migration. I wanted them to think ...