WNDB grant will bring diverse books and author visit to WSA.
By Susan Trower. West Sound Academy’s students will be reading more books by diverse authors next school year, thanks to an Educators Making a Difference grant from We Need Diverse Books. The grant will also pay for one of those authors to make a virtual visit to WSA...
Middle School students turn discarded materials into art.
By Sara Adams. Students in the 6/7th Exploratory Art class are finishing up their artwork sculptures created with repurposed materials. The requirement was a sculpture that is made solely from repurposed materials that Miss Sara has collected or that you bring in from...
Inspired by Maya Angelou, 6th and 7th Grade poets use their voices.
By Susan Trower Students in Georgia Chehade’s 6th/7th Grade Humanities class read and analyzed the poem, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou as part of their class celebration of Black History Month in February. They considered speaker and audience and...
Physics students learn about light and create their own holograms.
By Katelyn Van Antwerp Students in physics class have been working through a unit on light over the last few weeks. Our more recent labs have had us working on the refraction (bending) of light, as well as creating holograms while playing with the reflection of light....