First Graders Explore Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center
Earlier this week, students in first grade travelled to Half Moon Bay for a day-long field trip at the Elkus Ranch Environmental Education Center. In addition to exploring live stock, gardens, and acres of open space, students learned about how the food they eat is grown and processed, the necessity of safe food handling, and…
Fifth Graders Honor Pi Day With Interactive Math Celebration
The Middle School library was abuzz yesterday morning, as the fifth grade class hosted parents and faculty members for an interactive mathematics celebration. Coinciding with Pi Day, the nationwide event commemorating the mathematical symbol used to represent a constant, students led parents through a series of stations involving math games, world problems, and investigations. The budding…
Kindergarten Celebrates the Hindu Festival of Colors
The Kindergarten class was covered in color today, as students learned about Holi, the Hindu spring festival signifying the arrival of spring and the end of winter.
Third Graders Experience Interactive Immigration Simulation
As part of their unit on Immigration, third graders recently had the opportunity to travel back in time to the late 1800s and experience the trials and tribulations of life as an immigrant traveling to America. Each student was assigned a different country of origin and learned about the different classes of travel through boarding a…
Middle School Librarian Shares His Love of Reading with the Community
Every few weeks, Middle School Librarian, Mr. Baker, shares a favorite book from the Keys School library with Middle School students during Opening Assembly. This week’s featured book was the young adult novel ‘Flipped,’ by Wendelin Van Draanen.
Gaining Confidence and Finding Balance on the Ice
Students have laced up their ice skates at Keys since the school’s inception in 1973, staying active during the brisk winter months by learning how to ice skate through lessons, free-skate time, and fun games with their friends. Each winter, students, teachers, and parent volunteers share the rink and learn from one another. On several…
Running for Student Council at Middle School
Election season is heating up on the Middle School campus, as applications for Student Council candidates are near due. Council member duties include organizing campus-wide spirit events, coordinating assembly activities, and even interviewing prospective teachers!
Celebrating the Year of the Rooster
Classrooms, blacktops, and stages were the sites of Chinese New Year celebrations at Keys over the past two weeks, as students at both our Lower and Middle School celebrated the upcoming Year of the Rooster. The celebration provided a meaningful opportunity for students to learn about a Chinese festival that is rooted in centuries old customs and traditions. Kindergartners learned about…
Gravity Visualized in Eighth Grade Science
What’s the relationship between acceleration and velocity? How does the mass of a moving object affect its momentum? And, what does this look like in space? Students in eighth grade Science recently tackled these essential questions as they studied the foundations of Newton’s Laws of Motion. Using a stretched spandex sheet to replicate the ‘fabric of…
Fifth Grade Students Prep Missions to Mars
Our fifth graders completed a hands-on, teamwork-based project called ‘Marsbound’. After studying NASA’s current strategies and goals for Mars exploration, student teams posed their own questions about Mars discovery and proposed a mission that would collect data needed to answer their queries. The students created prototypes of space exploration vehicles (rovers), presented their designs to classmates,…