It's always surprising to see which sport will be the hit each year. It's usually soccer, hockey, or baseball. Those are fairly mainstream sports and one can pick it up with minimal amount of equipment, but this year the volleyball seemed to be a major hit! I saw kids...

In our Beginners class recently, we worked with the concepts of how arranging numbers make a composition. We viewed Mark Tobey, Northwest Painter, and discussed how he approached his compositions, and compared and contrasted his technique with Jackson Pollock,...

There is just something about challenges that help get kids excited and engaged. This week the kids are working on aiming at various targets and objectives. The stations set up around the gym required the kids to roll and throw while calculating angles, trajectories,...

This past week found us making 300 flowers at the request of Danica Bartow, who is designing the layout for the dinner section of the Music Department's two concerts coming up. The students used many skills and techniques: for example, the Beginners practiced cutting...

Welcome to February! It has been a busy year! Currently, the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Grades are working in textiles. We are weaving using cardboard looms. We have learned to make and warp our looms. The weaving has started, using the over-and-under technique. We...

Have you heard your kids talking about GaGa ball yet? I'm sure most of you have heard wind of the GaGa epidemic and I'm here to tell you about it. Every once in a while a new game comes along that takes PNA by storm. A few years ago it was 4-square and dodgeball, then...

 This week we complete our Martin Luther King, Jr. images for the Annual Assembly honoring the concepts of Equality, Peace, and Community among all Peoples that Martin Luther King, Jr. stood for. In every village, town, city, county, borough, state, country--whatever...

BLOG-mas: Day 4 Winter Break is upon us!  This year is going by so fast!  The week of school before our "long winters rest" is always full of energy and excitement. Students are starting to get ready for a "new year" of performing!  And the productions at PNA for the...

BLOG-mas: Day 3 MLK Jr. PNA's Martin Luther King Jr Assembly is as ingrained in our school culture as our curriculum.  Every year PNA students attend school to celebrate Dr. King. 4th through 8th Grade will be performing "Glory" by John Legend and Common.  A song the...

BLOG-mas: Day 2 Tchaikovsky's ​THE NUTCRACKER: Geography and Math! 4th and 5th Grade are getting to know their composers!  We started the year way back in the Baroque period with Bach and Handel and are currently learning about Nationalistic composers!  These guys...