“During our lessons, I teach each grade level specific life and social skills to help students control their words and actions to enable them to get along with others, which are taught based on a curriculum I created from the…
Guest Readers
Who does not love to read a good book by a roaring fire? How about getting a book read to you virtually by a roaring fire! Ivywood Board member, Jeff Fettig, was a virtual guest reader to our students this…
Open Air Reading
Spring is in the air and what better way to start enjoying this beautiful weather, then to get outside. Mr. Warchol and his 6th graders took advantage of the beautiful weather this week and went outside to read. Leaving the…
Compound Elements
Mrs. Knutsen’s fourth grade class recently finished reading “Treasure Island.” The students are studying compound elements in Grammar. To blend Literature and Grammar, the students drew pictures from the novel and diagrammed sentences using either compound predicate nominatives or compound…
Oceans
Ms. Channels 2nd graders have been remarkably busy so far in 2021! The class is working on knowing all the world oceans and their locations. Do you know the largest ocean (the Pacific) and the smallest ocean (the Arctic ocean)?…
The Wolf
This week Mrs. Adkins’ 1st graders learned all about the idiom of Biblical origin, “the wolf in sheep’s clothing”. The class discussed this Fable of Aesop and what the moral of this story was, that things are not always what…
Music
Let there be music! Last year Ivywood Classical Academy was awarded a grant by Michigan Charter Schools. One of the many items we were able to obtain with this wonderful grant was musical instruments for our students to use…
Butterflies
Ms. Channels’ 2nd graders would like to introduce to you Thomas Jefferson, Joy, Nellie and Snuggles! This class had the wonderful experience of watching 4 caterpillars transform into beautiful butterflies. On Thursday morning the class watched as 3 of the…
Annual Giving
Energy
Mrs. Knutsen’s 4th grade class is studying energy in Science right now. In this demonstration, the class was investigating how speed relates to energy as Mrs. Knutsen dropped a ball and a marshmallow into flour from various heights. Mrs. Knutsen…