Social studies is based on a theme approach with students learning history, geography, civics, and economics. If you walk our halls you will see displays of African Americans of the Northwest, Native American art, or student discoveries of symmetry in the world. Students analyze and discuss the effects of weather, the importance of current events on local, national, and global levels. Students observe, sort, classify, measure and predict scientific information during the study of science. All ages experience the world of science through grade level appropriate kits.
First graders make dinosaur fossils out of plaster and clay in their study of geologic time.
Third graders dissect clams and study whales in the unit on Marine Science. Prepared slides of skin and muscle are viewed by fourth graders through microscopes. Fifth graders write essays about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse and design posters on the same theme. Animal life abounds in our classrooms, enabling children to observe actual habitats.