Spring into Learning
Hello, Philomath community! With the changing of the seasons, we’re digging deep into some fascinating standard-driven activities. Here’s what we’ve been working on in our classroom:
In Math, the Lower School students are practicing telling and writing time on analog and digital clocks with attention paid to appropriate use of am and pm. Independent Study students are diving deeper into algebra. Variables, exponents, and coefficients, oh my!
Science is all about researching genetic variation, inherited traits, biodiversity, and the human impact in an effort to plan and enact environmental change. Students have been planting beans, experimenting with ideal growing conditions, proving plants’ needs, and researching the connections between organisms within ecosystems.
Our ELA virtual school students are completing a comic-writing activity, applying our study of punctuation and other writing skills to draft, revise, and publish an action-packed one-page comic starring characters of our own invention. Meanwhile, Independent Study students have just finished reading a novel they each selected, and will be beginning a second novel so we can do some comparative writing on both books.
As a reminder, we have school holidays on Tuesday, May 7th and Monday, May 27th. There will be no class or tutoring sessions held on either of these days. The final day of the school year will be on Friday, May 31st. Finally, we will be reserving times for Parent–Teacher Conferences from May 1st to May 3rd. If you’d like to schedule a 20-minute session with either Ms. Smith or Ms. Althoff (or both), please reach out now to arrange that time.
As always, thank you for all you do, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Happy spring!
