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Cincinnati Museum Center Visits Pre-Kindergarten
In early April, a CMC staff member came to Erica Lyons’ and Abbey Johnson’s classes to provide hands-on lessons around the water cycle and weather for students. First, students learned […]
Lotspeich Spring Concert
Lotspeich third through fifth graders filled Founders Hall with beautiful instrumental music during their spring concert. From the ring of hand bells to the strum of a ukulele to the […]
Pre-Kindergarten Opens an Arctic Museum
The day before Spring Break, Heather Arredondo’s students turned their classroom into an arctic museum. Inside the museum, students showed family and friends their migration of caribou knowledge, arctic animal […]
Second Grade Learns About the Brain
Lotspeich second graders welcomed pediatric neurosurgeon and parent Dr. Jesse Skoch as part of their Brain Talk class — a bimonthly, 30-minute class specifically focused on better understanding how brains […]
Third Grade Market Day
After careful preparation, Lotspeich third graders hosted their third annual Market Day. Market Day is the grand finale for the third graders’ weeks-long study on economics where they sold different […]
How Project-based Learning Looks in Lower School
Walk into our Lower School classrooms at Seven Hills, and you will most likely find students actively imagining, designing, creating, and devising solutions to student-identified (and sometimes teacher-proposed) challenges. Whether […]
Lower Schoolers Get Sneak Peek at New Building
The Doherty and Lotspeich kindergarten through fifth grade students graced the red carpet and were given the Hollywood treatment as they got an exclusive look at the new Doherty Lotspeich […]
Seven Hills Breaks Ground on New Lower School
Seven Hills broke ground on the new Doherty Lotspeich Lower School at a ceremony on April 2. The new school will serve as the unified Lower School division starting in […]
Building Bridges: The Power of Home-School Partnership
As parents and educators, we share a common goal: helping our children thrive. While students spend significant hours in the classroom, their growth and development truly flourish when home and […]
Sustainability Efforts in Upper
From recycling dry-erase markers to teaching their peers ways to protect the environment, sustainability efforts are going strong in Upper. Throughout the school year, the Upper School Sustainability Council has […]
Seven Hills Celebrates Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year was Feb. 17 and the celebrations reached all levels of Seven Hills with students teaching their classmates about the holiday and sharing traditions. At Doherty, kindergartners Asher […]
Lotspeich Second Grade Creates Jessi Raulet-inspired Hearts
Second graders in Lotspeich art teacher Sarah Hyland’s class learned how to recreate Jessi Raulet’s colorful heart design through a mixed media piece. Students used acrylic paints and a squeegee […]
Kindergartners Learn the Basics of Coding
In late February, Project Math teacher Jacquie Berting stopped by Becky Swain’s kindergarten class to teach her students about coding robots. Berting brought her LEGO ferris wheel and the LEGO […]
Third Grade Presents Playgrounds to Pre-kindergarten
Third graders shared their playground dioramas with pre-kindergarten students as part of their playground unit’s final project.
Fifth Graders Debate AI Usage in Schools
For their final project in their argumentative writing unit, the two Lotspeich fifth grade homerooms were split into “pro” and “con” teams to debate the use of AI in schools.