On Thursday, April 21st, the East Lake Academy middle school put on a show for the ages as they celebrated Shakespeare on stage. Performances included the 6th grade’s “Scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the 7th grade’s “Scenes from the Tempest,” and the 8th grade’s modern, cell-phone infused adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. ...Read More
For the 3rd year in a row, East Lake has received a grant from the Westerman Foundation. This year, we used funds to purchase several cordless, charging stereoscopes and a cart to store, transport, and charge them. A stereoscope is a microscope that can look at slides and can also “zoom in” on any solid...Read More
East Lake Academy’s Preschool 3 year old and 4 year old classes use a multi-sensory systematic approach to begin teaching reading, spelling, and phonics. We present concepts and skills in a cumulative manner, beginning with our 3 year olds. The students in Pre K 3 are introduced to lower-case letters, how to form lower-case letters,...Read More
Fourth grade is the year when our students learn about the United States of America. As an extension of this, each student was assigned a national park to research. They began by writing a formal letter to their assigned national park, requesting information for their report. After receiving maps, books, etc. from the park, the...Read More
Is it a bird? An ice cream cone? A dog? No, it is a cloud! The Kindergartners are studying nephology, otherwise known as the study of clouds! They have learned about the three main types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus. They have studied the altitude the clouds are in, the type of particles they...Read More
Hooray for another successful Poetry Café! I am so proud of all my students who wrote and recited their original poems for their parents. They presented with poise and confidence five different kinds poems; a couplet (our only rhyming poem with four to six lines) a simplified haiku (a three line poem that talks about...Read More
Matzah, wine, a perfect lamb, and bitter herbs are some of the most important parts of a traditional Jewish Passover meal. On Thursday, March 24th, our class set up their own rendition of the Passover feast to celebrate a Christian Seder Meal. The Christian Seder is a remembrance of the Last Supper that Christ celebrated...Read More
The 3rd Grade is filled with brilliant inventors. When tasked to solve a problem they wasted no time coming up with solutions that would be wonderful to see in the near future. Benjamin Franklin has nothing on this class! Connor Carreira invented the Water with Your Doggy, which is a self-refilling water bowl for your...Read More
On April 21st, East Lake Academy celebrated Spanish Heritage Day with performances from the students in the Preschool 3 year old program through 3rd grade. Their performances were not only memorable, but they brought one grandmother visiting from her native country of Colombia to joyful tears. She expressed her gratitude for a program that not...Read More
