3rd - 8th Grade Musical: The Three Musketeers...prepare for battle! Friday, students had the opportunity to learn more than just their lines and music for the upcoming 3rd through 8th Grade musical, The Three Musketeers...they got to learn about fencing!  Honestly,...

The Setup Making up a silly story with students is one of the easiest, most powerful tools a teacher can use in a language classroom.  It allows for movement, humor, tons of opportunities for students to speak confidently, and myriad spinoff opportunities for...

Hockey is a very popular sport in Alaska and the students are ecstatic about it being the current unit in PE class. The weather isn't allowing us outside as much as we'd like, but that isn't inhibiting us from having a grand time in the gym. Every grade...

 (The path to fluency and how it's navigated) Goal Setting Fluency in a second language is a goal that requires a deeper look at the roots of language acquisition and the heart of attention-grabbing teaching.  Meeting kids where they are at and finding ways to tap...

​All the Art Classes took home projects to give to parents and relatives. Each class learned about the presentation for a canvas. Most of the grades, K through 8th,  attached D-rings and wire, and the Beginners and EK learned about this process. The EK learned more...

Parkour has finally made it's appearance in gym class this year. The kids have been begging for the Parkour unit since the beginning of the year and they did a great job stretching their physical abilities and taking some risks during this popular unit. This is a...

Every year Pacific Northern Academy presents a number of shows...a winter concert, 2 spring musicals, a Martin Luther King Assembly, Graduation...WHEW!!!  Thinking about it at the beginning of every year just makes my head spin.  My goal is to find things that will...

It was a busy time before, during, and now after Thanksgiving Break! The Art Classroom is filled with canvasses from all in the school--Beginners through Eighth Grades. Included in the lessons of design/composition, are the nuts-and-bolts of wiring the canvas itself,...

Pacific Northern Academy 7th and 8th graders have Spanish class four times weekly - the most of any students in the school.  This more frequent contact allows for students to get regular repetitions of comprehensible input that put them on the path to fluency....

Where to begin?!  Every school year feels like a never-ending, fast-pace, whirlwind of one show to the next!  Oh, and throw in what we are learning about music in class in there too....WHEW!  So, music at PNA...yeah, there's ALOT going on! This past week, Alumni Dylan...