by Melodee PETERS | Sep 18, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, The Grades
This week our grade 8 students had their second DER morning, which is intended to encourage students to take a break from their screens and engage with a text of their choice, whether book (fiction/nonfiction), magazine, newspaper, graphic novel, etc. . Our target...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
Our Grade 8 Integrated Humanities students have been studying tectonic plates and how their movements cause earthquakes. The students enjoyed demonstrating the different tectonic plate movements through their body movement. When they demonstrated, the other students...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 11, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary English, The Grades
Grade 9 students have been examining travel advertisements for their first unit of study. This week, they had the opportunity to collaborate with a partner on a chosen advertisement; thus, using each other’s strengths in analysis to complete annotations of the...
by Melodee PETERS | Sep 4, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, The Grades
Grade 8 students have discussed options for Service as Action (SA). This week Mr. Camilo released the specific learning outcome that will be the focus for their service learning this semester. They will focus on becoming more aware of their own strengths and areas for...
by Melodee PETERS | Jun 18, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Humanities, The Grades
This week the students were encouraged to use their creative thinking skills and knowledge to design a cover for their first unit in Integrated Humanities. Grade 7s designed a cover based on their understanding of natural hazards. Grade 8s designed a cover based on...
