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Adventure Week: Espionage Edition 🕵️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ Our Cloud Campus students really flexed their creativity, code breaking, and critical thinking last week!

Students developed their spy identities, learned about codes and ciphers, and studied human behavior. The week culminated in challenging one another to Virtual Escape Rooms that asked them to put their new skills to the test!

Fun Fact: This year’s theme was developed by the Student Council 🎉

The adventures continue! FlexSchoolers from this year’s graduating class on our Cloud campus recently spent a few days in Boston with Head of School, 🧡💙 A special thank you to Susan, our Director of Technology for joining and helping us send off these seniors in style!

Move over, CSI—our Cloud students are on the case! 🕵️‍♂️🔍

Cloud students in Friday’s Tools of the Forensic Scientists class engaged in an at-home fingerprinting lab! Students made fingerprinting stations with paper, pencil shavings, clear tape, and scissors, fingerprinted themselves, and determined the category for each print.

🌲 Surviving, Thriving, and Leveling Up! 🌲
What happens when you take the classic survival novel "Hatchet" and bring it to life? Our Grades 5-7 students on our Berkeley Heights campus just found out!

🛶 From the Page to the Pines

The journey began with a Wilderness Workshop led by Zach Fisher of Volpes Wild Arts, where students mastered the fundamental skills of survival. They then headed to Camp Dark Waters, where our young explorers put their knowledge to work!

By connecting literature to real-world challenges, our students develop critical thinking, resilience, and a deep sense of understanding. They aren't just memorizing facts—they are building the "mental toolbox" they'll use for the rest of their lives.

Bonus! Watching these students support one another through every brave moment while outside their comfort zones reminded us why our community is so special.

✨ Want to see how your child can thrive in an environment that values curiosity and hands-on experiences? Join us for our next Virtual Information Session on May 21. Save your spot 👉 https://www.flexschool.net/admissions/virtual-information-session

We are thrilled to see our Founder, Jacqui Parr Byrne, featured on the Nerding Out on Neurodiversity podcast! 🎙️

Jacqui sat down with Dr. Matt and Jake Noonan to discuss the journey of founding FlexSchool and creating a community where creative, curious, critical thinkers continue to thrive.

Available now 🎧 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KXmMTdNnk&list=PLo8seAwM8UDxnoiQjIpwue1HfXaJc0tqv

Nerding out on Neurodiversity Podcast · Dr. Matt Zakreski · This podcast is hosted by myself, Dr. Matt Zakreski, a clinical psychologist and speaker, alongside our co-host and producer Jake Noonan, an educational coach and humanities teacher. We are here to leverage our personal and professional experiences as neurodivergent s...

🌋 DIY Lava Lamp Challenge 🧪 Our 4th and 5th grade FlexSchoolers had a blast exploring chemistry through a classic favorite: DIY Lava Lamps! Our young scientists investigated how different liquids interact and how science can be colorful and fun.

Digging into the past! 🦴✨ Our 3rd and 4th-grade explorers on our Cloud campus got their hands (virtually) dirty this week! They took a deep dive into the world of paleontology to create their very own fossils.

But it wasn’t just about the cool imprints—our FlexSchoolers have been decoding the secrets hidden beneath our feet! By studying fossil evidence, our students are learning how to read Earth’s history and understand the massive events that have shaped our planet’s layers over millions of years 🌎🌋