Wines Elementary kindergarteners had an amazing time at Domino’s Farms Petting Farm as they launched into their new Arts & Letters unit about farm life. The students got to meet friendly animals up close and learn firsthand about what happens on a farm. Their teachers said this hands-on experience was the perfect way to spark curiosity and excitement for Module 2.

The Skyline Learning Center is a student-led, peer tutoring center that has become a vital resource across the school, serving students at every level. Last year, the center expanded its tutoring subjects to include math alongside all other subjects, and the results have been impressive. This school year alone, over 500 students have walked into the center, tutors work with their peers in 18 different classes each week, and nearly 50 submissions have come through the online writing lab.

The AAPS Capital Program celebrated a milestone on Tuesday as the highest beam was placed on the under-construction Mitchell Elementary. This time-honored Topping Out Ceremony celebrates the work of our construction team, marks significant progress, and is believed to bring good luck to Mitchell Elementary and all its future students and staff.

History is a practice in empathy. We try to place ourselves in the shoes of people from the past in order to better understand our shared human experience in the present. In my IB SL History class, we recreate pieces of the training that nonviolent Civil Rights student activists went through in order to explore tactics for resisting bigotry and oppression. In Humanities, we recreate an Enlightenment-era coffee house (we call it “Descarte’s Drip”) in order to immerse ourselves in a real-world “Internet in the Age of Reason.”

Eberwhite Elementary School’s fifth graders had an exciting real-world science experience today when geologist and University of Michigan Professor Naomi Levin visited Trish Hayes’s and Erin Wright’s classrooms. Her visit brought the students’ Module Two Arts & Letters studies to life by connecting their learning to the geology of their own local environment.