Through our continued participation in the American Heart Association’s “Kids Heart Challenge,” Weilenmann School of Discovery was recently given a CPR in Schools® With First Aid Training Kit – a user-friendly comprehensive kit we can use to teach the lifesaving…
This year brought a major change to WSD’s foreign language program, with the implementation of a Spanish language curriculum for grades 5 – 8. We checked in with new Spanish teacher McKinly Moynier to see how things are going: WSD:…
WSD eighth graders are summarizing what they have learned about the American Revolution. Working in teams, they first chose what they believe are the five most important events of the war, or that led to war. Then they included that…
This fall, Lower School students had an amazing experience sharing adventures with a wild robot named Roz! A September/October read-along of the chapter book, The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, allowed students in all the Lower School grades to explore…
Impressive displays were on exhibit at the Middle School Science & Engineering Fair, held on January 26. Students were excited to return to an in-person event where they could present research projects on a wide variety of topics. This year,…
Students in fifth grade are gaining an understanding of forces and motion. In the Maker Space, some students are programming their Ozobots by color, which will program the bot to follow a color coded track. They learned that certain color…
As the state of Utah approached the one-year anniversary of the initial COVID-19 lockdown, a small and important art museum invited school children from around the state to help the students of tomorrow know what it was like to be…
Fourth grade students are learning about the inner workings of computing in a fun way. By using “The Turing Tumble,” an educational puzzle game, students are building mechanical computers powered by marbles. They have 51 logic puzzles to choose from,…