The Riverside Student Center’s Aiden and Cassandra Donovan come from an exciting family of broadcaster/podcasters. Their parents, Chris and Evelyn, are involved in the industry themselves, and Aiden launched his own podcast, Aiden’s Arcade Academy, last fall. Aiden reviews video games, father Chris said, and “he really impresses us with some of the info he has stored in his brain.” Shows are less than 10 minutes long; he also has a YouTube Channel, The Boy Aiden. Continue reading →
iShine students kept active and productive at home in a variety of ways. Jordan and Taylor Lawrence, 2nd and 3rd grade, went on a family hike and did their schoolwork surrounded by nature. Continue reading →
Nicholas Zuiderveld, an 8th-grade Homeschool student with Springs Charter Schools who lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, has taken the initiative to sew masks for local hospitals as a way to combat COVID-19. Continue reading →
The 7th and 8th-grade classes of Springs’ Renaissance Valley Academy (RVA) in San Jacinto have made significant gains in reading during the school year. Seventy-seven students have been assessed and reflected an average annual growth of 50% among students. Continue reading →
Springs Homeschool ES Stephanie Grutzmacher has created this Facebook page to share tips and tricks to make homeschooling easier during the pandemic. Continue reading →
Lauren Zike, a 5th/6th grade academy teacher at Springs’ Corona Student Center, has begun live-directed drawing sessions with her students via Zoom during this time when on-site classroom learning has been suspended due to COVID-19. Continue reading →
Springs’ Corona Student Center teacher Jessica Holland’s 1/2 grade class walked to the post office to mail its Flat Stanley project. Continue reading →
Del Rio Student Center students participated in the first annual Palm Academy Art Camp, learning how art enriches areas such as literacy, science and the global community. Students created “drawbots” (moving robots that explore physics through art), worked on a community art piece that will hang in the new Palm Academy facility and learned about how art connects to storybooks. Continue reading →
Springs held its first Speech Meet at the Magnolia Student Center on March 5. The event gave participants the chance to practice public speaking while discussing a topic for which they have a passion. Students had the chance to build their confidence, develop presentation skills and learn critical thinking. Continue reading →
Homeschool 7th-grade student Gwyneth McIntyre, 12, earned a 1st place award and was designated as a Broadcom Masters Nominee at the Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair held in March. Her project, Terrible or Terrific Toothpaste? examined which toothpastes caused the least tooth decay. Gwyneth was one of 450 students participating; she participated in the Health and Biomedical Sciences category. Continue reading →
