It’s July. Why are the teachers pictured here, and two more joining via the computer, gathered? Because they chose to spend a week pulling together the strands of the NBS math curriculum into a powerful statement of philosophy and a detailed overview of how that philosophy is put into practice, whether the students are […]
NBS Student Pulitzer Center Finalist
In April, North Branch Middle Schoolers attended a virtual workshop led by the Pulitzer Center, learning about their mission to find and share underreported stories. Students each chose a story from the Center, then used words or lines from it to write a poem. Entering the poems in the Pulitzer Center’s “Fighting Words” poetry contest […]
Stonehenge!
“What did you do in school today?” Who among us has answered “recreated Stonehenge?” But that is exactly what the Seniors did, using bricks they made and following techniques experts imagine were used to create the original structures, as part of their unit on ancient cultures and civilizations. Brick making began with soil from the […]
The Trumpet of the Swan
The Primary Blue class LOVED reading The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White. This timeless tale of a trumpeter swan born without a voice captured their imaginations and hearts. The students leapt at the chance to perform excerpts from this story when their teacher suggested a play. And, best of all in this school year, […]
Building Bridges
The 5th and 6th graders put their engineering, construction, and problem-solving skills to work building bridges. First, they chose a type of bridge – truss, suspension, beam, cantilever, arch, cable-stayed – and researched the pros and cons of the design and actual bridges constructed in that style. Then, with simple materials the students built their […]
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