Our sixth graders have been particularly busy this week, making final preparations for the Maker Faire coming up this weekend, on Saturday, November 14. In their science class, with their teacher, Emma Sears, students have been wrestling with the question…
Last week middle school covered the world and beyond.
Seventh graders study water this year with middle school teacher, Emma Sears. Water is a a very earthly topic, but some of its life is hard to see. High school science…
Our well loved, Halloween tradition:
Gather in All School Activity groups
Dress your senior(s) in recyclable materials
Carve a few pumpkins
Move to the theater
Have a senior fashion show
Oooh and Aaah over the pumpkins
Middle schoolers get an…
A few weeks ago, we gathered the middle school students and advisors together and began to read Fish, by L.S. Matthews. Reading aloud is not uncommon in middle school, but on this particular day, we joined with hundreds of classrooms…
This week will bring the end to a series of days that the middle school has spent in service learning this fall. Service has had a long tradition in the middle school. Five years ago, we began making connections with…
Scary stories written by PDS students, and dating back to 2000, are on display in the MSLC this month.
We start getting ready for Halloween rather early in middle school. Since the end of the twentieth century, the Poughkeepsie Journal’s…
On the first day of school, when I led our first middle school assembly, I made the pronouncement that, even though we would give each student a schedule on the first day of school, there would be few days that…
On the first day of school, when I led our first middle school assembly, I made the pronouncement that, even though we would give each student a schedule on the first day of school, there would be few days that…
