3rd Grade Experiences Different Cultures (Happy Chinese New Year)

A Second New Year
A Chinese New Year

Educating a student is more than making them sit in a class, listen to a lecture, and recite information back. At North Valley Academy we strive to teach students about life, to expose them to the wonders and joys that the rest of the world has to offer. On Friday our third-grade class was welcomed with "Happy New Year" as Friday was Chinese New Year. To stay most students were shocked would be an understatement. The students continued a mast of questions wondering what is going on. A few students already knew about Chinese New Year and were excited to share their knowledge. To start the morning off students learned how to write numbers using Chinese symbols. This is a difficult task. They completed math problems using the traditional English numbers, and also completed problems using Chinese symbols. Students completed the lesson by writing all the Chinese symbols 0 to 10, then 100, 1000, and 10000. Learning to see the world can happen at any age and at North Valley Academy we hope to create those leaders that are ready to change the world for the better. Check out some fun pictures of our students with their Chinese symbols.

Creative Learning: No bones about it!

February 8, 2018 - Elementary

At North Valley Academy, we are all about creative learning and it’s happening now in our elementary classrooms! Check it out….

Did you know there are 206 bones in the human body? Our first-grade students do! They are learning all about bones - the different types of bones and what they protect in our bodies. Flat bones, long bones, short bones, and even irregular bones...

Bones! Bones! Bones!

In our upper elementary classrooms, students are learning about acids and bases through some creative hands-on projects.  Thank you Mrs. Rossman for these great pictures from the fifth grade science class! 

Who said learning was quiet!?

January 26, 2018

Well...it is an amazingly wonderful day of morning meeting at NVA when Mr. Klamm has to come down and tell everyone to quiet down because it is too loud!!  This year, the upper elementary grades (4th, 5th, and 6th) are meeting on Fridays for morning meeting as a group.  This month, our hero of the month is Benjamin Franklin.  To celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s inventive spirit, our students spent the morning collaborating in small groups.  Students were asked to use their critical thinking skills to model a machine invention with only their bodies - the rest of the students had to guess what that machine was.  All I can say is, WOW! - what fabulous, creative minds children have!  Students modeled a dishwasher, fireplace, airport metal detector, and even a UFO just to name a few.  In addition, to our inventions, students played a round of “Ships and Sailors,” a fun, LOUD, activity in quickly following directions. Please enjoy the pictures from these activities…

Also in January, Mrs. Perkins held the annual Hoop Shoot Competition.  Elementary winners at the school level included:  Celia Tellez, Abbigail Whittier, Sara Whittekiend, Hadley Hunt, Triston Dayley, and Tyrell Bolish.  Congratulations to those students!