What's On Our Plate Expedition...authoring our book! Authoring a digital book is a gigantic undertaking, but crew has dug in and our room looks like a press room! Chapter authors are finishing their drafts this week so editors and fact checkers can begin to review them. Editors and fact checkers have been brainstorming ideas to [...]
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Expedition Express FIRE and ICE: FINAL PRODUCT: The Welch and Seaborg crews have completed the photography leading up to our final product. The students are now compiling their notes and researching their historic Turckee building and will be formatting the photo book soon. Question of the Week: What are some interesting facts you have [...]
Expedition News The Seaborg Crew has been chugging along with our Fire and Ice Expedition. We’ve completed our photography portion leading up to our final product. The students are currently compiling their research on the historic Truckee building and we will format the photo book soon. On Friday, both 2/3 crews will be making [...]
Hi all, Off to a spectacularly rainy December. Lets hope for snow soon. We have a couple of big events coming up this month leading into our Winter Break: Friday, Dec 7 Gratitude Dinner – see attachment for more info Wed, Dec 12 Minimum Day Friday, Dec 14: last day to grab any remaining items [...]
Crew Update 11/27/2012 I hope everyone had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving break. As amazing as it may seem, we are only four weeks away from winter break! Here is what the Williams crew will be doing between now and winter break. “Who am I?” Expedition: Today I returned the students’ mentor essays. In this essay, [...]
Hi all, Hope everyone's break went well and all are relaxed and rested. The McMains Crew has partnered with the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe for their MathDogs expedition. They want to assemble gift baskets to be given to families who adopt dogs, as well as for the volunteers to use with the dogs who [...]
Hello Bell-Bannon Crew! In the past few weeks we have been working hard on literacy skills-- using the "read-on" and "look for useful parts" strategies, as well as finding and creating words with the consonant digraphs: ch, th, and sh. We have also been working to identify and write word families: -at, -all, and -ing. We have [...]
Hi all, Everything going along smoothly these days. Students are engaged in their learning and continually impressing staff with their respectful behaviors. Thanks for all your support in both academics and character building. Amazing performances from SELS students at Dia de los Meurtos on Friday. Great job and congratulations to Rubi Sanchez in preparing them [...]
A common misconception of public schools is that they are free when in fact providing excellent education comes at quite a high cost. When most of us were children, property taxes and other federal funding were more than adequate to provide the required resources to fund schools. In 1978, Proposition 13 overhauled the way California [...]
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