First-grade students are investigating the importance of plants in our world. After learning the typical parts of a plant and the function of each part, students connected how plants make energy.

MDS fourth graders dressed up as famous Hispanic personalities and presented themselves using their Spanish skills to explain who they represent and the story that made them famous.

The culmination of the fourth-grade unit: How We Express Ourselves was a poetry slam at Adventure Bound Books. The unit included studies of all types of poetry from sonnet to haikus to ASL poetry.

Kindergarteners have been learning all about the weather! Click to see our very own weather reporter in action!

When students enter kindergarten, they often have many new rules and procedures to learn. Morganton Day School (MDS) kinders spent the last few weeks learning not just how to follow rules, but diving into better understanding the concepts of systems and how they allow us to function within many social scenarios.

You may remember studying the American Revolution in school. For me, that entailed memorizing dates and battles that seemingly had no real significance. But last week, the Morganton Day School 3rd graders (a.k.a. the colonists) "lived" the beginnings of the revolution.

Matter exists in many, sometimes changing, forms. Our second graders' are studying these concepts during the science portion of their unit of inquiry, how the world works. Students are exploring the characteristics, properties, and changes in matter using balloons.