The Cooper School Daily

Welcome Back !! Second Graders are bursting with excitement and joy to be back in school! We began this week by building our classroom community, reviewing procedures and getting to know each other!! Scholars enjoyed participating in getting-to-know-you activities and games. This year we will be studying a lot of fun and stimulating topics! Meet […]

 Welcome Back to School! First Grade students eagerly jumped right in to the first week of school. Our Scholars spent a good part of each day making discoveries about their new classroom, practicing new and old classroom routines and procedures, reviewing reading, math, and writing skills. Additionally, we made sure to nurture relationships and build […]

New Friends Kindergarteners were so excited to spend the week meeting new friends, spending time with old friends, and learning how to navigate their new school. We were thrilled to see Kindergartners bravely make eye contact, greet and shake hands with their classmates in our Morning Meetings. By Thursday, students were ready to bravely join […]

Dear Families: We have returned from Finland and are excited to share what we have learned with you! It was such an interesting and powerful experience for all of us. We left with many ideas, but we also left with a feeling of great pride. TCS is without a doubt, an amazing place. I could not […]

How We’ve Grown This week we opened our height strings that we measured ourselves with at the beginning of the year to see how much we’ve grown over the Fifth Grade year. Many students were surprised by how much they have grown over the year. We not only talked about how much we’ve grown physically, […]

Final Africa Project! This week, 4th Graders shared their powerful creations for our final Africa project. Their presentations included iMovies, posters and dioramas. Our scholars were given a wide range of freedom to produce meaningful pieces to showcase for 3rd and 5th Graders. Projects ranged from Cheetahs, Elephants and Mount Kilimanjaro to the war in […]

Paving the Way… This week, 1st Graders interviewed 2nd Graders to get an idea of what their next year will be like. It was so wonderful to hear all the things their older peers love about 2nd Grade and it definitely got everyone excited to move up! They also reflected on their 1st Grade year […]

Bird Study Museum Second Grade ornithologists celebrated a successful presentation of their Bird Study Museum.  Scholars shared exciting iMovies to begin their presentation. Detailed Power Points covered facts ranging from the bird’s feathers, wingspan, nest, predators, prey and interesting facts! Second Graders displayed life like bird sculptures of their individual birds that they were able […]

Ready for Fourth Grade We were so excited to spend the week celebrating all of the successes of our Third Graders this year. As our school year came to a close this week, Third Graders took a look back at the letters addressed to their future selves from the first day of school as well […]