Second Graders Start Learning Violin
This week, second grade students ventured into our first instrument of the year: violins! After warming up their bodies, brains, and voices using songs and games, Meghan Carye ’91 joined me to instruct students in proper positioning and playing a pizzicato (plucking style) violin. Second graders got great practice standing tall and strong while caring for a fragile instrument and learned their first song for the unit, the “String Song.”
– Tyler Cotner, music teacher
Seventh Grade Goes With the Flow to Fresh Pond
This week seventh grade students headed off campus for a field lab at the Walter J. Sullivan Water Treatment Facility at Fresh Pond in Cambridge. The field lab connects to what students are learning about in their science classes this trimester. Students have been exploring the answers to questions like “What is a watershed?”, “Where does our drinking water come from?” and “How much water do we use?” During the field lab, students visited the facility’s drinking water laboratory and talked with scientists who worked in the lab, viewed the treatment plant, and learned about the Fresh Pond Reservoir. The field lab was an all-around adventure, with everyone traveling together on the MBTA’s 74 Bus and capping the trip with a stop for lunch in Belmont Center.
– Maggie Small, seventh grade science teacher
