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we are just about to finish our first quarter of school! this week, the chemistry students were given the challenge of making a periodic table of the elements arranged in a new way – here are their projects!

click on the picture to go to our picasa web album

we are having a fantastic spirit week so far…

click on this photo for more photos!

here are the winners

day 1 – pokemon

1st -Bill & Tristin

2nd – Aidan M. & Meghan

3rd – Marc & Anna

day 2 – pixar

BEST Joshua & Elizabeth

1st Aidan M/Zac (slinky dog) & Inga

2nd Aidan D. & Arriel

3rd Bill & Mikhel

Day 3 – caveman

BEST Meghan & Bill

1st Aidan M & Mikhel

2nd Inga/Amelia (tie) & Joshua

3rd Ellen & Marc

day 4 – candy

BEST Duncan & Meghan

1st Killian & Elizabeth

2nd Joshua & Tristin

3rd Marc & Anna

this thursday, march 10th is the UCS science fair

more details to follow…

we had a great time at covenant point bible camp and ski brule again this year!

the 8-9th grade girls went to shabbona lakes last week for an overnight campout – click here to look at the pictures

here we are at the middle of november and our novel writers have collectively written over 100,000 words!

CLICK on the nano statsĀ  picture above and see our classroom stats!

just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing………………

last week was the week of the field trip – what a great way to end our first quarter of school!

the high school went to see “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Steppenwolf Theatre on Wednesday, the Ancient World Literature class went to the Art Institute of Chicago for a tour and got a sneak peak at the new armor exhibit opening soon.

On Friday all grades 7-12th went on a 90 minute tour of the Lyric Opera building

here are someĀ  pictures taken from my phone and some from Arriel’s phone and some from Noah’s phone (too bad we didn’t bring a camera!)

we loved Roy our supernumerary guide!

to celebrate the day of the dead,the keepers made sugar skulls – a typical treat in mexico’s celebration

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