On February 13th at 4 p.m. the Board of Education will hold a Goals and Guardrails Committee Meeting.
Find materials here.
All SDP schools and offices will be closed on Friday, February 14, 2025 in observance of
the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles’ City-Wide Celebration. GO BIRDS!!
In their most recent project, 5th and 6th grade humanities classes explored the system of the Electoral College. We examined its historical origins, the ongoing debates surrounding its effectiveness, and how the system’s racial implications have shaped such a complex tool of our democracy. Each student crafted a research-based argument about whether the Electoral College…
Yesterday, SLAMS 5th and 6th grade students and their families embarked on our interactive walk for the Bravery In The Neighborhood unit. Students worked hard researching and writing about local spots where individuals or groups showed bravery, and then transformed their research into podcasts. Each podcast was added to an interactive Google Map, and groups…
In Humanities, students at SLA-MS have been exploring the questions: How do we learn? How do we learn from ourselves? How do we learn from others? As a whole school, we read “Ghost” by Jason Reynolds and worked on determining theme and understanding why determining theme helps us to be stronger readers. As we read,…
The 6th grade just finished doing a big linocut-printing project in art! Each student chose a letter of the alphabet and researched an environmental related topic they found, expanding on the work they were doing In science on recycling! From their research they developed several designs to represent important ideas or powerful visuals that they…
Part way into our bookcase study, students began wondering if they would REALLY get to use power tools (the answer was, of course, yes!) and how these tools worked. From these questions, we began our study of Work and Simple Machines. Grounded in the question, “What tools will help make the work of building a…
After extensive work researching books students wanted to order for our library and building a budget with our allotted money, students were thrilled when the books finally arrived! It took only a few minutes before students were asking, “Where are going to keep all the books?” This question launched our next project: book case design!…
Techsplorations classes are beginning their end of unit project. Below are the guidelines and rubrics. [pdf-embedder url=”http://slamiddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Digital-Citizenship-Guide-Instructions.pdf” title=”digital-citizenship-guide-instructions”]
Neptune and Saturn students, here are your instructions for your September project. [pdf-embedder url=”http://slamiddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NeptuneSaturnProjectSheetsforMeredith.pdf” title=”Neptune-Saturn Project Sheets September 2016″]