Middle School math continues to manipulate musical fractions. Students are exploring changing the time signature for a piece of music and therefore having to calculate the equivalent fractions. Here Ian and Jennifer practice clapping out the beat of music.

Students are excited to start gardening! This week they planted an Ayurvedic herb garden. The students have been studying plant parts. Now they will see plants develop first-hand. They will use their garden to create their very own Ayurvedic medicines.

The students are explaining the roles of science in the ancient civilizations they've studied. For example, they noted the difference in approach between ancient Indian Ayurvedic medicine, which is holistic, and the traditions in the Nearer East, which focus treatment on discrete parts of the body.

Our students are busy making props and scenery for the Odyssey of the Mind Competition.

The students admire the props they've worked very hard to create for our academic review. Nikko's arm is tired. Nikko? Nikko?

Shadows are ubiquitous, but often go unnoticed. Shadows are important historically, for they provided early evidence that light travels in straight lines. Humans constantly, but unconsciously, use shadows to judge the shape of objects in their environment. Because shadows reveal much about an object’s extension in space, they are often used to heighten the illusion of depth in a painting. Here, Kai is adding shadow and highlights to the geometric shapes used for the Castle to help it look more realistic.

Diana and Rebecca pose in character, as we rehearse a comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus.

Students are working hard calculating interior and exterior angles of quadrilaterals and are moving into exploring the properties of the trapezoid, rhombus, and kite.

The physics students are finishing up their lab on trajectory. Here students are using a still image, taken from a videotaped trial of a catapult projectile toss, to measure the angle of trajectory. This information is plugged into a formula to determine the launch velocity. Next stop, precision and accuracy.

Alice approves of Jonathan's attempt at the first few steps of a medieval Italian saltarello dance we're working on.

The authors/actors are editing the script and memorizing the lines to their original play in Latin.

The students presented their time capsule projects and are now working on posters that will advertise the benefits of becoming apprentices in their chosen guilds!

The European Art class designs and decorates the School's Coat of Arms for our Castle.
Motto - CPS Courage, Passion, Strength

Kaitlyn and Alice have continued their review of using positive and negative integers in 1-step equations. They have been making great use of their very own number line and have begun to use calculators to check their own work. They are preparing to move into 2-step equations.

Geometric shapes are starting to take shape and forming a Medieval Castle.

Ryan demonstrates his strategy for finding the answer to the challenge problem presented.

Dani focuses her attention on solving a wind and plane speed problem using her choice of methods for solving systems of linear equations.

The students read excerpts from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and created presentations reflecting the views on separation prevalent in their individual colonies. Our final debate about whether to vote in favor of the Declaration of Independence should be interesting.

Students in Environmental Biology are completing their study of the Human Population Growth and they will begin to explore the affects of that growth on other species.