Kiker's Strength-Based Learning Cohort

  Dear SBLC families,      We are so grateful for all of you! Thanks for the gorgeous rosemary trees and for all of the gift card goodies we found in the branches. Both of us look forward to a little shopping and relaxation over winter break. We loved the chance to visit with you at our winter party and so appreciate all of your contributions to our tasty breakfast buffet and our cute penguin craft.      We were able to fill 7 backpacks as a donation to Carrying Hope. Your generosity will help a lot of kiddos in need of some comfort at a challenging time and we love that our community showed such support!      Here's a glimpse into our week through some fun pictures! Happy Holidays all - see you in January!

We've come back from a wonderful break, refreshed and ready to learn! SBLC students have been hard at work and jumped in with both feet! We hope you enjoyed looking through the portfolios at the halfway point, and it launched some conversations about keeping up the Quality Work they are doing! We've been enjoying the weather via our outdoor space! Lots of fun varying up our learning environment! Our project time has focused on our Service Project for Carrying Hope. Students have learned about the organization and who they help, created a sign up, and are eager to build these important packs to help a child their age. Check your email for a student-designed donation sign up. In ELA, we've been learning how to actively annotate, take notes, cite sources, and summarize text! Our in class research has been supporting our experimentation in science, and has helped us complete our In Class Science Fair Project Notebook. We've been learning about insulators, me...