06/01/2026
✨ Reflecting on a Year of Growth ✨
As the school year comes to a close, students in Mrs. Gaetano's 7th grade class participated in a hexagonal thinking activity to reflect on their learning and growth throughout the year. 🧠 Hexagonal thinking asks students to make connections between ideas, concepts and experiences, then explain and defend those connections through discussion. Rather than focusing on a single "right answer," the activity encourages students to think critically about how their learning fits together.
From The Longest Table in the fall to collections in the winter to their recent I-search projects, students worked to identify connections across a year's worth of experiences. The activity sparked a thoughtful conversation as students reflected on their evolution as thinkers and as a learning community. Themes such as community, accomplishment, knowledge, joy and hard work emerged as students in the third period class first connected their own learning and then discovered connections with their classmates' experiences. It was a powerful reminder of how much growth can happen over the course of a school year.
