We’ve had a great year in the garden and greenhouse! Classes are finishing up plantings, and as of this week, our garden is almost completely planted.The praying mantis egg case that wintered in the pollinator garden hatched and some students got to see the babies on the surrounding plants!If your child is entering 3rd-6th grade keep an eye out in the next week for the Summer Earth Rangers permission slip!

Date Added: 6/17/2025

Grades Kindergarten through second grade are wrapping up the year with their favorite STEAM centers.

Third Grade finished their 3D Bookmarks and are exploringCode.org

Fourth Grade is wrapping up and playing through their Cardboard Arcade project.

The fifth grade is working on the Mint Mobile unit. They will focus on making and testing functioning Wheel and Axles.

Sixth grade is wrapping up their mint mobile unit and moving on to 1-day STEAM challenges.

Date Added: 6/17/2025

These are the activities in each Spanish class level:

Sixth Grade: designing a digital classroom utilizing prepositional phrases, identifying classroom items and classroom furniture.

Fifth Grade: Asking and answering, “What time is it ?” in Spanish. Using both a traditional method (“menos”) and modern ( “y”- pronounced ee).

Fourth Grade: Expressing location through a variety of activities, both written and verbal, culminating in a paper airplane project.

Second Grade: Reproducing the contents of a sandwich after being given a verbal selection of meats and vegetables.Asking and answering, ¿Te gusta?( Do you like it?) Me gusta (I like it).

First Grade: Reviewing household pets, animals on the farm, feelings, and body parts.

Kindergarten: Reviewing colors, greetings, alphabet, and numbers.

Date Added: 6/17/2025

Students have been enjoying read-alouds and library trivia to wrap up the year and reflect on all the library has to offer. A reminder to families:all library books are due as we approach our final checkout day (June 13th). Thank you to the PTA for supporting our reading initiatives—especially Beanstack! I’ll be launching a summer reading bingo board challenge via beanstack for any students who want to participate, as well as sharing information about local public library programs that are available to readers over the summer. Have a wonderful summer and keep reading!

Date Added: 6/17/2025

All students recently made Native American Zoomorphic Pinch Pots with artist in residence, Tony Valderrama. They learned about indigenous cultures, as well as naturally sourced clay and the connection between humans, art, and nature. I wanted to thank the PTA for supporting a memorable enriching experience for the students at EQ.

Sixth grade is working on completing self-portraits using a photo tracing technique. Fifth grade is finishing up drawings of cities and creating the illusion of space using one point perspective. Third grade students are continuing art history and are going to learn about cubism. Second grade is finishing up a figure drawing unit and learning about artist Keith Haring. All students are participating in reflecting upon their portfolios of another successful and creative year.

Date Added: 6/17/2025