Weekly News
April 14-18
APRIL 15
Tuesday, April 15 is the last day to make your tax credit donation to Scholarships for Educational Excellence Foundation. Just go to www.seefaz.org and take credit!
SUPER SUMMER ‘25
Trevor is hosting Arcane Destiny for students entering 7th grade and up. Join your friends and experience the adventure! You will be talking about the dangers encountered, dragons overwhelmed, and abhorrent overlords defeated for months to come! Students entering K-6th grade will have a Game Plan to beat the summer slump by making their own game boards, crossing the acid river, engineering a tower, and mastering the electric spiderweb.
There’s lots more fun and learning all summer long. Check out the attached Super Summer brochure and sign up now. Classes are filling fast.
BAKE SALE
Last fund raiser of the year! High school and Upper Division students will be hosting a Bake Sale on Thursday and Friday of this week from 8:00-5:00. Stop by the office for some delicious treats, buy a muffin for breakfast, take some cookies to your coworkers, or buy dessert for dinner. Students may bring money to buy a treat at lunchtime. Thank you for supporting our students.
KINDERGARTEN
Our “Around the World” tour takes us to countries in Africa this week. After learning about the pyramids of Egypt, we will make mummies and participate in a build a pyramid challenge. Next, we will explore the Nanib desert and create our own shifting sands using sand and straws. Students will use salt dough to build a model of Table Mountain from South Africa. Coffee originated in Ethiopia; we will use coffee beans in a counting activity. Baobab trees grow in Madagascar. Students will use handprints to make the branches of Baobab tree paintings. In addition, students will listen to traditional African music and learn to clap some of the rhythms. On Tuesday, April 22, we will go on a field trip to the Musical Instrument Museum to learn about the music and instruments from countries around the world. If you would like to chaperone, please sign up with Ms. Leslie. Plan ahead…our kindergarten graduation ceremony will be held at 9:15 on May 19 on the amphitheater.
PRIMARY
Our investigation of the “Nifty Fifty” focuses on the central United States this week. We will learn about the history and development of jazz and blues music. While listening to jazz from Louisiana, students will create artwork in response to the sounds using oil pastels and then add music notes and instruments. We will tour Michigan and learn about Henry Ford and his invention of the assembly line which made manufacturing cars easier and less expensive. Students will work in teams to create their own assembly line to make tops using CD’s and hardware. After discussing Wisconsin, students will sample some delicious cheese curds. We wrap up the week with a visit to South Dakota and Mt. Rushmore. If you were creating this huge monument, who would you memorialize? Perhaps your mom or dad? Your pet? Students will create their own version of Mt. Rushmore featuring their choices. On April 30, students will go on a field trip to the AZ Historical Museum. See Ms. Krista to chaperone.
INTERMEDIATE
So many ways to “Express Yourself”! This week, we will learn to express ourselves through words and actions. Students will learn acting techniques and create short skits with a team to present to their peers. We will write more original poems for our books and practice our poems for the upcoming Poetry Festival which will be presented on Thursday, April 24th at 9:15. Students should be practicing a published poem and an original poem. Using gestures and even props make the words come to life. On Wednesday, April 23 we will go on a field trip to see the Childsplay presentation of “Eddie and Vinnie”, about a boy with dyslexia. We have limited chaperone tickets; contact Heather if you wish to drive.
UPPER DIVISION
We are concluding our reading of The Hobbit. Students who love this book may wish to continue the adventure by reading the Trilogy of the Rings. Making reading a daily habit is one of the most important ways you can help your student succeed in all academic areas. We will choose costumes for our Romeo and Juliet play and create props and sets this week as rehearsals continue. Tickets go on sale next week. Students are finalizing work in their math groups. Thank you to everyone who attended conferences last week. We are proud of the excellent progress each student has made this year.
HIGH SCHOOL
We will select costumes for our Shakespeare play this week and create sets and props. Students will begin blocking the stage combat scenes and work on body language and diction. Tickets go on sale next week. We continue work in our college course and are finalizing material in physics. We will finish reading the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead, and participate in a discussion-based analysis of the novel. Thank you to the students who supported Daelyn’s senior project last week. They cleaned and spar varnished all the primary and kindergarten lockers and are working on varnishing cabinets and doors throughout the school.