by Brenna McCormick | PNA Kindergarten Teacher Think back to math instruction in your school years. I'm sure it was much like mine, filled with algorithms and abstract idea, ideas that I memorized and used to calculate answers, but did not understand. In grade school,...
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Space Week was Out of this World!
Oct 26, 2019
Dear Friends and Families of PNA, Space Week was exactly what PNA is all about, students enjoying the process of learning and being deeply consumed in a topic. It was a tremendous success thanks to all the staff members and volunteers planning and preparation. We were...
WELCOME BACK!
Aug 27, 2019
Middle school students working on stop motion animation the first week of school. Dear Friends and Families of PNA, Welcome back to the FUNd stuff, highlights of the fun, exciting things happening on the PNA campus. For those of you who are new to the PNA community,...
Museum Musings
May 5, 2018
by Martina Henke | PNA 7th Grade Teacher I’ve always been a fan of museums. When I travel for work or recreation, I try to visit at least one local museum wherever I go, and I am always thrilled and inspired. Seeing the actual Emancipation Proclamation, an original...
Exciting Science
Feb 25, 2018
by Hannah Powell | PNA Beginners Teacher Science is incorporated into many of the activities we do at school on a daily basis. When the Beginners explore the sensory table, and are dropping corks, stones, feathers, and marbles into a tub of water, they are scientists...
Communication Skills
Feb 18, 2018
by Sheryll Orbse | PNA 3rd Grade Teacher Today's world demands more than the three Rs - reading, writing, and arithmetic; today's workplace looks for graduates that are also proficient in soft skills. These soft skills are also known as the 21st century skills:...
The Transfer of Learning
Feb 11, 2018
by Brenna McCormick | PNA K/1st Grade Teacher One of my goals as a teacher, and I think most teachers share it, is for my students to internalize what they have learned in the classroom and use it on their own both in and out of the classroom. Something that stood out...
Why Video?
Feb 4, 2018
by Pete Johnson | PNA 5th Grade Teacher and Technology Coordinator PNA has recently revamped its Youtube channel! The channel currently contains quite a few new and “classic” videos that have been sorted into playlists on a variety of topics. You can find the link at...
Process vs. Product
Jan 28, 2018
by Brenna McCormick | PNA K/1st Grade Teacher At PNA, we believe our students are capable of more than they know. We have high expectations for students, and we strive to challenge them each and every day, providing scaffolding and support as we push them beyond their...
Learning is Messy; It’s Messy, Challenging, and Oh, So Rewarding
Jan 21, 2018
by Martina Henke | PNA 7th/8th Grade Teacher PNA's 7th/8th graders dedicated their language arts and social studies times throughout the weeks since Winter Break to preparations for PNA's annual Martin Luther King Jr. assembly. We actually began discussing equity and...