The 5th and 6th grade class had a blast last week on a two-night excursion to Raleigh.  Thanks to the meticulous planning of TNCA mom Bridget Felix, this trip was filled with amazing sights, great food, and even a lemur or two! 

We love Fun Fridays around here, and we're always looking for ways to keep them interesting and exciting for all of the kids at the school. This can be pretty challenging, as our students range in age from 4 to 13, but just as in the classroom, we try to utilize the principles of differentiated instruction in order to include everyone. One of our most recent Fun Fridays, American Inventions Day, provides a great example of how we can design activities that appeal to all ages and all interests.

Part of our goal with the 7th & 8th grade workshops is to expose our students to a variety of topics that are outside of our expertise or outside of a typical school curriculum. We started with computer programming! This fall, we invited Home Hacker Camp to the school (https://homehackercamp.com) to teach our students the basics of computer programming through robots. This fantastic program typically operates summer camps (be sure to check their summer 2019 schedule on their website), but we were fortunate enough to have Francie Black run a 5 week program just for our 7th & 8th graders.