For the last full week of school, Joshua and about 180 of his closest eighth grade friends took a trip to Washington DC to have some fun and maybe even learn something along the way!
Amongst rumors of spreading Swine Flu, the groggy teens and their chaperones boarded their luxury coaches at 5:30 AM on Monday [...]
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Joshua Takes On Washington
Posted in School, Vacation on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Geography Scholars
Posted in School on January 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This year, BOTH Joshua AND Jacob had the highest scores in their classrooms on their first round Middle School Geography Bee written tests and each won the right to go on to the Grade-level Bees. Talk about making your parents proud?!? We even got a really nice Email from one of the Social Studies teachers [...]
Autumn Ahrt
Posted in School on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Both Josh and Jake enjoy the art classes they routinely have at school and both seem to have some real talent for it as well. This fall, projects culminated with a watercolor/pencil composition. They began with sketches and studies and worked up to the final products shown here. We were pretty impressed by both Jacob’s [...]
Josh’s Geography Prowess
Posted in School on January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In early January, our Middle School held it’s annual Geography Bee. It began with competitions in each of the classrooms that identified a single representative from each class to move to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were run by grade level with three students from each of the three grades (6th, 7th, and 8th) going on [...]