Middle School (5-8)

Working with peers, using technology and project-based learning are among the qualities students note as essential to engagement. The Sequoia Project, a yearlong project involving fifth through eighth graders, integrates the subjects of science, technology, math, social studies, and language arts, and uses the 21^st century skills of collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Students not only collaborate with each other, but with their teachers, administration, and most of all, with experts in the field. Each year, students use a fictitious island, Sequoia, which they developed, to problem solve real-world issues, such as the discovery of oil and how it will affect their country, designing and building homes in their country during a water shortage, and researching the country’s past through the discovery artifacts in an archeological dig.

Students acquire the knowledge and skills for movement that provide the foundation for enjoyment, continued social development and access to a physically active, healthy lifestyle.

• Students learn group games in which they develop behaviors which exemplify individual character and the sportsmanship to resolve conflicts with peers, including responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and compassion.
• Students actively participate in physical activities that address each component of health-related fitness including: strength, endurance and flexibility.
• Students follow activity-specific safe practices, rules and procedures.

Middle School students have participated in various service projects for the benefit of fellow humans, animals and the environment.Projects last year were incorporated in Sequoia.This coming year, they will partner with Cathedral Urban Service Experience (C.U.S.E.) for weekends to serve in our urban community.

Our Middle School students make deep connections to our global society through their exposure to the Spanish language. Spanish is incorporated in cross-curricular activities and practical life situations. Students also use the online Scholastic ¿Qué Tal? magazine and online supplementary program. Middle School students are provided with the tools to become successful foreign language learners. After completing seventh and eighth grade Spanish with a grade of B or better, students may gain high school credit for Spanish I and II.

Middle School students learn best when they are actively engaged with the content. Lessons that include technology applications, provide teachers with ways to motivate students into becoming active, real-world learners. Computer-based strategies help students develop higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Participation in real-life applications included in technology-rich teaching environments promotes the ability to draw analogies, infer relationships, predict outcomes, and analyze data. In the Middle School, each student has their own laptop which they use daily. All Middle School students also bring a tablet or have access to a school tablet for use during the school day.Each grade level has focused technology skill lessons each week in technology class. All classrooms are equipped with interactive Promethean Boards for both teacher and student use.

The Hightower Middle School Art Class is designed to address specific developmental stages and desires of creative and cognitive growth of art students in grades fifth through eighth over the duration of a school year. Throughout the year the students will enhance their skills in drawing, painting and 3D Art. The objectives of this course include: exercising and demonstrating the use and mastery of the elements of design, use of materials, tools and process from a variety of media (including printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography), learning to handle materials effectively, creating original objects of art in a specific medium, selecting appropriate media relative to concepts and forms of art.

Students will learn basic HTML/CSS to build websites.  Students will progress to C++ / Python coding using CodeCombat and other resources. Throughout the year students will continue their education with advanced SCRATCH and will begin to recreate classic video games. The class will include an introduction to HTML coding. We will create webpages from scratch, learning HTML terminology along the way. This class will also introduce how the internet was created. Coding with SCRATCH introduces students to block coding. Students will be able to write and modify code for games. We will use the program CodeCombat which allows students to learn and write code in different programming languages such as JavaScript and Python.

This course will develop and improve public speaking, argumentative, and critical-thinking skills in communication settings. Students will prepare and deliver speeches and participate in several in­-class debates and forums on current topics. Techniques will be taught to control speech anxiety, as well structure and how to organize information to present to a variety of audiences. As such, the fundamentals of physical and vocal delivery skills, use of language and gesturing, as well as listening skills will be learned.

During this course students are instructed in creative expression through basic theater skills and theatrical performances.  The focus of the class concentrates on the following:  improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences and heritage, imagination, literature and history, developing basic acting skills, developing environments, rehearsals, cultural and historical information to support acting, analyzing, evaluating and constructing meaning from acting, understanding the role of the theater, film, television, and electronic media.  The course culminates in a school theatrical production. Students will be required to attend additional rehearsals after school during the week or two before the performance.

Students focus on three disciplines of engineering during this course - flight, science in nature and robotics.  The study of flight includes exploring air, aerodynamics and flight with hands-on experiments and projects. Students are challenged with STEM activities to discover more about everything that glides, floats and flies, including a closer look at the history and principles of flight, building a model airplane, and creating their own future flying machine. The study of science in nature includes exploring science through the lens of nature. Students will be challenged with STEM activities to discover more about how humans use and are inspired by nature. Students will experiment with natural pigments and pH indicators, learn more about flowers and fruits with a flower dissection, prints and presses, and create a fruit battery. Looking towards nature, students will take a closer look at how nature has influenced inventions and will create their own bioplastic. The study of robotics introduces students to the basics of programming and building using Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robots. Students will then tackle design challenges and end with a sumobot competition.

Hightower Middle School (HMS) students can participate in a beginning band class. Students can choose between clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Band will meet two days a week during the school day and may require a possible after-school time.  Please note, students will need to supply their own instrument.

This is a project-oriented, horticulture and nature studies exploration guided by two master gardeners with decades of horticulture experience. Among other things, units will include vegetable gardening, landscape plant propagation, native habitat gardening (e.g. butterfly host garden, Monarch waystation, prairie restoration), pond habitat exploration, birdwatching skills and practice, composting theory and experimentation, textile manufacture from plants (we grow cotton on campus) and sheep through ginning, carding, spinning and weaving processes.  The class will keep journals that track growth, record observations, and provide the foundation for an ongoing campus calendar record of natural cycles and interesting events and creatures discovered on campus.  The class will engage as much as possible with new HMS building project’s landscaping plans from screening vines to participating in the design of the retention pond and bioswale.

This course will touch on these three topics during the year.  During the woodworking section, there will be three projects: a bird house, home address kit, and interactive display for the playground.  The second section will focus on textiles and basic hand sewing. Students will learn simple sewing skills, weaving and other textile crafts. The third section will be “Introduction to cooking: Snack time!”  Students will make after-school snacks, dips such as humus, pesto from our Outdoor Classroom, bruschetta, wraps, salad dressings, frozen yogurt bars and light desserts.

As the historians for the school, yearbook members accurately cover the school year, as well as create a contemporary publication that will be enjoyable and relevant to our community for years to come.  Students will learn the requirements of publication: design, photography, writing, and project management.

Working with peers, using technology and project-based learning are among the qualities students note as essential to engagement. The Sequoia Project, a yearlong project involving fifth through eighth graders, integrates the subjects of science, technology, math, social studies, and language arts, and uses the 21^st century skills of collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Students not only collaborate with each other, but with their teachers, administration, and most of all, with experts in the field. Each year, students use a fictitious island, Sequoia, which they developed, to problem solve real-world issues, such as the discovery of oil and how it will affect their country, designing and building homes in their country during a water shortage, and researching the country’s past through the discovery artifacts in an archeological dig.

Students acquire the knowledge and skills for movement that provide the foundation for enjoyment, continued social development and access to a physically active, healthy lifestyle.

• Students learn group games in which they develop behaviors which exemplify individual character and the sportsmanship to resolve conflicts with peers, including responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and compassion.
• Students actively participate in physical activities that address each component of health-related fitness including: strength, endurance and flexibility.
• Students follow activity-specific safe practices, rules and procedures.

Middle School students have participated in various service projects for the benefit of fellow humans, animals and the environment.Projects last year were incorporated in Sequoia.This coming year, they will partner with Cathedral Urban Service Experience (C.U.S.E.) for weekends to serve in our urban community.

Our Middle School students make deep connections to our global society through their exposure to the Spanish language. Spanish is incorporated in cross-curricular activities and practical life situations. Students also use the online Scholastic ¿Qué Tal? magazine and online supplementary program. Middle School students are provided with the tools to become successful foreign language learners. After completing seventh and eighth grade Spanish with a grade of B or better, students may gain high school credit for Spanish I and II.

Middle School students learn best when they are actively engaged with the content. Lessons that include technology applications, provide teachers with ways to motivate students into becoming active, real-world learners. Computer-based strategies help students develop higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Participation in real-life applications included in technology-rich teaching environments promotes the ability to draw analogies, infer relationships, predict outcomes, and analyze data. In the Middle School, each student has their own laptop which they use daily. All Middle School students also bring a tablet or have access to a school tablet for use during the school day.Each grade level has focused technology skill lessons each week in technology class. All classrooms are equipped with interactive Promethean Boards for both teacher and student use.

The Hightower Middle School Art Class is designed to address specific developmental stages and desires of creative and cognitive growth of art students in grades fifth through eighth over the duration of a school year. Throughout the year the students will enhance their skills in drawing, painting and 3D Art. The objectives of this course include: exercising and demonstrating the use and mastery of the elements of design, use of materials, tools and process from a variety of media (including printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography), learning to handle materials effectively, creating original objects of art in a specific medium, selecting appropriate media relative to concepts and forms of art.

Students will learn basic HTML/CSS to build websites.  Students will progress to C++ / Python coding using CodeCombat and other resources. Throughout the year students will continue their education with advanced SCRATCH and will begin to recreate classic video games. The class will include an introduction to HTML coding. We will create webpages from scratch, learning HTML terminology along the way. This class will also introduce how the internet was created. Coding with SCRATCH introduces students to block coding. Students will be able to write and modify code for games. We will use the program CodeCombat which allows students to learn and write code in different programming languages such as JavaScript and Python.

This course will develop and improve public speaking, argumentative, and critical-thinking skills in communication settings. Students will prepare and deliver speeches and participate in several in­-class debates and forums on current topics. Techniques will be taught to control speech anxiety, as well structure and how to organize information to present to a variety of audiences. As such, the fundamentals of physical and vocal delivery skills, use of language and gesturing, as well as listening skills will be learned.

During this course students are instructed in creative expression through basic theater skills and theatrical performances.  The focus of the class concentrates on the following:  improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences and heritage, imagination, literature and history, developing basic acting skills, developing environments, rehearsals, cultural and historical information to support acting, analyzing, evaluating and constructing meaning from acting, understanding the role of the theater, film, television, and electronic media.  The course culminates in a school theatrical production. Students will be required to attend additional rehearsals after school during the week or two before the performance.

Students focus on three disciplines of engineering during this course - flight, science in nature and robotics.  The study of flight includes exploring air, aerodynamics and flight with hands-on experiments and projects. Students are challenged with STEM activities to discover more about everything that glides, floats and flies, including a closer look at the history and principles of flight, building a model airplane, and creating their own future flying machine. The study of science in nature includes exploring science through the lens of nature. Students will be challenged with STEM activities to discover more about how humans use and are inspired by nature. Students will experiment with natural pigments and pH indicators, learn more about flowers and fruits with a flower dissection, prints and presses, and create a fruit battery. Looking towards nature, students will take a closer look at how nature has influenced inventions and will create their own bioplastic. The study of robotics introduces students to the basics of programming and building using Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robots. Students will then tackle design challenges and end with a sumobot competition.

Hightower Middle School (HMS) students can participate in a beginning band class. Students can choose between clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Band will meet two days a week during the school day and may require a possible after-school time.  Please note, students will need to supply their own instrument.

This is a project-oriented, horticulture and nature studies exploration guided by two master gardeners with decades of horticulture experience. Among other things, units will include vegetable gardening, landscape plant propagation, native habitat gardening (e.g. butterfly host garden, Monarch waystation, prairie restoration), pond habitat exploration, birdwatching skills and practice, composting theory and experimentation, textile manufacture from plants (we grow cotton on campus) and sheep through ginning, carding, spinning and weaving processes.  The class will keep journals that track growth, record observations, and provide the foundation for an ongoing campus calendar record of natural cycles and interesting events and creatures discovered on campus.  The class will engage as much as possible with new HMS building project’s landscaping plans from screening vines to participating in the design of the retention pond and bioswale.

This course will touch on these three topics during the year.  During the woodworking section, there will be three projects: a bird house, home address kit, and interactive display for the playground.  The second section will focus on textiles and basic hand sewing. Students will learn simple sewing skills, weaving and other textile crafts. The third section will be “Introduction to cooking: Snack time!”  Students will make after-school snacks, dips such as humus, pesto from our Outdoor Classroom, bruschetta, wraps, salad dressings, frozen yogurt bars and light desserts.

As the historians for the school, yearbook members accurately cover the school year, as well as create a contemporary publication that will be enjoyable and relevant to our community for years to come.  Students will learn the requirements of publication: design, photography, writing, and project management.

Working with peers, using technology and project-based learning are among the qualities students note as essential to engagement. The Sequoia Project, a yearlong project involving fifth through eighth graders, integrates the subjects of science, technology, math, social studies, and language arts, and uses the 21^st century skills of collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Students not only collaborate with each other, but with their teachers, administration, and most of all, with experts in the field. Each year, students use a fictitious island, Sequoia, which they developed, to problem solve real-world issues, such as the discovery of oil and how it will affect their country, designing and building homes in their country during a water shortage, and researching the country’s past through the discovery artifacts in an archeological dig.

Students acquire the knowledge and skills for movement that provide the foundation for enjoyment, continued social development and access to a physically active, healthy lifestyle.

• Students learn group games in which they develop behaviors which exemplify individual character and the sportsmanship to resolve conflicts with peers, including responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and compassion.
• Students actively participate in physical activities that address each component of health-related fitness including: strength, endurance and flexibility.
• Students follow activity-specific safe practices, rules and procedures.

Middle School students have participated in various service projects for the benefit of fellow humans, animals and the environment.Projects last year were incorporated in Sequoia.This coming year, they will partner with Cathedral Urban Service Experience (C.U.S.E.) for weekends to serve in our urban community.

Our Middle School students make deep connections to our global society through their exposure to the Spanish language. Spanish is incorporated in cross-curricular activities and practical life situations. Students also use the online Scholastic ¿Qué Tal? magazine and online supplementary program. Middle School students are provided with the tools to become successful foreign language learners. After completing seventh and eighth grade Spanish with a grade of B or better, students may gain high school credit for Spanish I and II.

Middle School students learn best when they are actively engaged with the content. Lessons that include technology applications, provide teachers with ways to motivate students into becoming active, real-world learners. Computer-based strategies help students develop higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Participation in real-life applications included in technology-rich teaching environments promotes the ability to draw analogies, infer relationships, predict outcomes, and analyze data. In the Middle School, each student has their own laptop which they use daily. All Middle School students also bring a tablet or have access to a school tablet for use during the school day.Each grade level has focused technology skill lessons each week in technology class. All classrooms are equipped with interactive Promethean Boards for both teacher and student use.

The Hightower Middle School Art Class is designed to address specific developmental stages and desires of creative and cognitive growth of art students in grades fifth through eighth over the duration of a school year. Throughout the year the students will enhance their skills in drawing, painting and 3D Art. The objectives of this course include: exercising and demonstrating the use and mastery of the elements of design, use of materials, tools and process from a variety of media (including printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography), learning to handle materials effectively, creating original objects of art in a specific medium, selecting appropriate media relative to concepts and forms of art.

Students will learn basic HTML/CSS to build websites.  Students will progress to C++ / Python coding using CodeCombat and other resources. Throughout the year students will continue their education with advanced SCRATCH and will begin to recreate classic video games. The class will include an introduction to HTML coding. We will create webpages from scratch, learning HTML terminology along the way. This class will also introduce how the internet was created. Coding with SCRATCH introduces students to block coding. Students will be able to write and modify code for games. We will use the program CodeCombat which allows students to learn and write code in different programming languages such as JavaScript and Python.

This course will develop and improve public speaking, argumentative, and critical-thinking skills in communication settings. Students will prepare and deliver speeches and participate in several in­-class debates and forums on current topics. Techniques will be taught to control speech anxiety, as well structure and how to organize information to present to a variety of audiences. As such, the fundamentals of physical and vocal delivery skills, use of language and gesturing, as well as listening skills will be learned.

During this course students are instructed in creative expression through basic theater skills and theatrical performances.  The focus of the class concentrates on the following:  improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences and heritage, imagination, literature and history, developing basic acting skills, developing environments, rehearsals, cultural and historical information to support acting, analyzing, evaluating and constructing meaning from acting, understanding the role of the theater, film, television, and electronic media.  The course culminates in a school theatrical production. Students will be required to attend additional rehearsals after school during the week or two before the performance.

Students focus on three disciplines of engineering during this course - flight, science in nature and robotics.  The study of flight includes exploring air, aerodynamics and flight with hands-on experiments and projects. Students are challenged with STEM activities to discover more about everything that glides, floats and flies, including a closer look at the history and principles of flight, building a model airplane, and creating their own future flying machine. The study of science in nature includes exploring science through the lens of nature. Students will be challenged with STEM activities to discover more about how humans use and are inspired by nature. Students will experiment with natural pigments and pH indicators, learn more about flowers and fruits with a flower dissection, prints and presses, and create a fruit battery. Looking towards nature, students will take a closer look at how nature has influenced inventions and will create their own bioplastic. The study of robotics introduces students to the basics of programming and building using Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robots. Students will then tackle design challenges and end with a sumobot competition.

Hightower Middle School (HMS) students can participate in a beginning band class. Students can choose between clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Band will meet two days a week during the school day and may require a possible after-school time.  Please note, students will need to supply their own instrument.

This is a project-oriented, horticulture and nature studies exploration guided by two master gardeners with decades of horticulture experience. Among other things, units will include vegetable gardening, landscape plant propagation, native habitat gardening (e.g. butterfly host garden, Monarch waystation, prairie restoration), pond habitat exploration, birdwatching skills and practice, composting theory and experimentation, textile manufacture from plants (we grow cotton on campus) and sheep through ginning, carding, spinning and weaving processes.  The class will keep journals that track growth, record observations, and provide the foundation for an ongoing campus calendar record of natural cycles and interesting events and creatures discovered on campus.  The class will engage as much as possible with new HMS building project’s landscaping plans from screening vines to participating in the design of the retention pond and bioswale.

This course will touch on these three topics during the year.  During the woodworking section, there will be three projects: a bird house, home address kit, and interactive display for the playground.  The second section will focus on textiles and basic hand sewing. Students will learn simple sewing skills, weaving and other textile crafts. The third section will be “Introduction to cooking: Snack time!”  Students will make after-school snacks, dips such as humus, pesto from our Outdoor Classroom, bruschetta, wraps, salad dressings, frozen yogurt bars and light desserts.

As the historians for the school, yearbook members accurately cover the school year, as well as create a contemporary publication that will be enjoyable and relevant to our community for years to come.  Students will learn the requirements of publication: design, photography, writing, and project management.

Working with peers, using technology and project-based learning are among the qualities students note as essential to engagement. The Sequoia Project, a yearlong project involving fifth through eighth graders, integrates the subjects of science, technology, math, social studies, and language arts, and uses the 21^st century skills of collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Students not only collaborate with each other, but with their teachers, administration, and most of all, with experts in the field. Each year, students use a fictitious island, Sequoia, which they developed, to problem solve real-world issues, such as the discovery of oil and how it will affect their country, designing and building homes in their country during a water shortage, and researching the country’s past through the discovery artifacts in an archeological dig.

Students acquire the knowledge and skills for movement that provide the foundation for enjoyment, continued social development and access to a physically active, healthy lifestyle.

• Students learn group games in which they develop behaviors which exemplify individual character and the sportsmanship to resolve conflicts with peers, including responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and compassion.
• Students actively participate in physical activities that address each component of health-related fitness including: strength, endurance and flexibility.
• Students follow activity-specific safe practices, rules and procedures.

Middle School students have participated in various service projects for the benefit of fellow humans, animals and the environment.Projects last year were incorporated in Sequoia.This coming year, they will partner with Cathedral Urban Service Experience (C.U.S.E.) for weekends to serve in our urban community.

Our Middle School students make deep connections to our global society through their exposure to the Spanish language. Spanish is incorporated in cross-curricular activities and practical life situations. Students also use the online Scholastic ¿Qué Tal? magazine and online supplementary program. Middle School students are provided with the tools to become successful foreign language learners. After completing seventh and eighth grade Spanish with a grade of B or better, students may gain high school credit for Spanish I and II.

Middle School students learn best when they are actively engaged with the content. Lessons that include technology applications, provide teachers with ways to motivate students into becoming active, real-world learners. Computer-based strategies help students develop higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills. Participation in real-life applications included in technology-rich teaching environments promotes the ability to draw analogies, infer relationships, predict outcomes, and analyze data. In the Middle School, each student has their own laptop which they use daily. All Middle School students also bring a tablet or have access to a school tablet for use during the school day.Each grade level has focused technology skill lessons each week in technology class. All classrooms are equipped with interactive Promethean Boards for both teacher and student use.

The Hightower Middle School Art Class is designed to address specific developmental stages and desires of creative and cognitive growth of art students in grades fifth through eighth over the duration of a school year. Throughout the year the students will enhance their skills in drawing, painting and 3D Art. The objectives of this course include: exercising and demonstrating the use and mastery of the elements of design, use of materials, tools and process from a variety of media (including printmaking, painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography), learning to handle materials effectively, creating original objects of art in a specific medium, selecting appropriate media relative to concepts and forms of art.

Students will learn basic HTML/CSS to build websites.  Students will progress to C++ / Python coding using CodeCombat and other resources. Throughout the year students will continue their education with advanced SCRATCH and will begin to recreate classic video games. The class will include an introduction to HTML coding. We will create webpages from scratch, learning HTML terminology along the way. This class will also introduce how the internet was created. Coding with SCRATCH introduces students to block coding. Students will be able to write and modify code for games. We will use the program CodeCombat which allows students to learn and write code in different programming languages such as JavaScript and Python.

This course will develop and improve public speaking, argumentative, and critical-thinking skills in communication settings. Students will prepare and deliver speeches and participate in several in­-class debates and forums on current topics. Techniques will be taught to control speech anxiety, as well structure and how to organize information to present to a variety of audiences. As such, the fundamentals of physical and vocal delivery skills, use of language and gesturing, as well as listening skills will be learned.

During this course students are instructed in creative expression through basic theater skills and theatrical performances.  The focus of the class concentrates on the following:  improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experiences and heritage, imagination, literature and history, developing basic acting skills, developing environments, rehearsals, cultural and historical information to support acting, analyzing, evaluating and constructing meaning from acting, understanding the role of the theater, film, television, and electronic media.  The course culminates in a school theatrical production. Students will be required to attend additional rehearsals after school during the week or two before the performance.

Students focus on three disciplines of engineering during this course - flight, science in nature and robotics.  The study of flight includes exploring air, aerodynamics and flight with hands-on experiments and projects. Students are challenged with STEM activities to discover more about everything that glides, floats and flies, including a closer look at the history and principles of flight, building a model airplane, and creating their own future flying machine. The study of science in nature includes exploring science through the lens of nature. Students will be challenged with STEM activities to discover more about how humans use and are inspired by nature. Students will experiment with natural pigments and pH indicators, learn more about flowers and fruits with a flower dissection, prints and presses, and create a fruit battery. Looking towards nature, students will take a closer look at how nature has influenced inventions and will create their own bioplastic. The study of robotics introduces students to the basics of programming and building using Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robots. Students will then tackle design challenges and end with a sumobot competition.

Hightower Middle School (HMS) students can participate in a beginning band class. Students can choose between clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. Band will meet two days a week during the school day and may require a possible after-school time.  Please note, students will need to supply their own instrument.

This is a project-oriented, horticulture and nature studies exploration guided by two master gardeners with decades of horticulture experience. Among other things, units will include vegetable gardening, landscape plant propagation, native habitat gardening (e.g. butterfly host garden, Monarch waystation, prairie restoration), pond habitat exploration, birdwatching skills and practice, composting theory and experimentation, textile manufacture from plants (we grow cotton on campus) and sheep through ginning, carding, spinning and weaving processes.  The class will keep journals that track growth, record observations, and provide the foundation for an ongoing campus calendar record of natural cycles and interesting events and creatures discovered on campus.  The class will engage as much as possible with new HMS building project’s landscaping plans from screening vines to participating in the design of the retention pond and bioswale.

This course will touch on these three topics during the year.  During the woodworking section, there will be three projects: a bird house, home address kit, and interactive display for the playground.  The second section will focus on textiles and basic hand sewing. Students will learn simple sewing skills, weaving and other textile crafts. The third section will be “Introduction to cooking: Snack time!”  Students will make after-school snacks, dips such as humus, pesto from our Outdoor Classroom, bruschetta, wraps, salad dressings, frozen yogurt bars and light desserts.

As the historians for the school, yearbook members accurately cover the school year, as well as create a contemporary publication that will be enjoyable and relevant to our community for years to come.  Students will learn the requirements of publication: design, photography, writing, and project management.