On February 28th, the students and staff of Soldier Hollow Charter School celebrated our annual cultural Olympiad. This event occurs in tandem with the athletic events of our skiing Olympics. The cultural Olympiad began over a month ago, when students from second through eighth grade were assigned to their multi-age country groups. Kindergarten and first grade students participated in class teams. Students met with their teams weekly to plan and organize their presentations. They do crafts, art, reports, and research … →

The beginning of March means just one thing at Soldier Hollow Charter School – the Olympics! This is an event that all students, teachers, and parents eagerly anticipate. Students are grouped into multi-age country teams and spend a month learning about the culture, food, history, and unique aspects of their country. They create a display to share what they learned in the cultural Olympiad (more on that next week). Of course, they also spend a lot of time on the … →

The second grade at Soldier Hollow Charter School has been very busy studying many things. We learned about Presidents Lincoln and Washington and wrote papers about them. In Science we just finished our weather unit. Brian Mcinerney from the weather service came and taught the students about how the weather is reported. Second grade also worked with the fourth grade students to report the weather in another state. We ended our unit with the second grade science fair weather experiments. … →

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 was the 100th day of school. Although this may seem insignificant to the average person, for the kindergartners and first graders at Soldier Hollow it was a day to celebrate. The number 100 is an important part of primary education – students learn how to count, read, and write numbers up to 100. The kindergartners counted up to the 100th day in anticipation, while the first graders studied a unit of math focused on the numbers … →

“GO WEST!” was echoed by Soldier Hollow Charter School 4th graders in creative commercials during their studies of the many groups of people who travelled to the western frontier. Working in small groups, students wrote scripts, made props, and rehearsed their commercials before presenting to their peers. With their knowledge, imagination, writing skills and vibrant personalities each group worked to persuade easterners that there is no place like the west!   After learning that many groups of pioneers journeyed through … →