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The Dragon Den Bake-Off

This month, our fourth-grade students embarked on a unique and tasty mathematical adventure —The Dragon Den Bake-Off. The challenge? To use their math skills to design and bake cookies that would be a part of a cooking competition. Fourth-grade lead teacher, Manny Lalonde observed a notable increase in enthusiasm from the outset. "Students became increasingly engaged and eager to apply their knowledge on measurements, fractions, money, and proportions in a baking setting," he said.

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DMC, Destiny, and Drawing Parallels Between Students and Superheroes

During his visit with the GFA community, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels spoke frequently about destiny, particularly highlighting how our campus, our building, was destined to be a school. He said this building was not just any building, not another office or department store, but was destined to be a school for learning. Reflecting on his time with us, it becomes evident that this visit might serve as an origin story for many of our own students.

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