Fifth Graders Dig Into Studying Worms In science class, fifth graders have been studying ecosystems and food webs. Students spent time observing an important decomposer–an earthworm! We watched to see where a worm would go when given a choice between light and dark as well as dry and wet. Most
Eighth Graders Explore Jewish Life Before The Holocaust In eighth grade social studies, students are currently learning about the buildup to World War II and The Holocaust. This week, students participated in a classroom gallery walk that showcased ten photographs. Students analyzed the images to recognize the rich diversity of
First Graders Return To Math Stations After returning from the long winter break, our first grade mathematicians are easing their way back into classroom routines by moving through stations. They are reviewing concepts with two-dimensional shapes and exploring similarities and differences in three-dimensional shapes. Students are also practicing their fact
Sixth Graders Interview Faculty About Identity This past Friday, our sixth grade students completed their final diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging lesson as part of our growth, development, and belonging program. For the entire trimester, students dove deep into understanding how different identities impact us and the world around them.
Songwriters and Recording Technology Students Unite This week, students in the seventh and eighth grade Songwriting arts elective showcased their work in a Tiny Desk-inspired recording event in the Erskine Library. They collaborated to think about form, lyrical rhyming structures, rhythm, harmonic accompaniments, melody, and instrumentation to write their final
Seventh Grade Math Has No Problem With Problem Sets It is late October and the seventh grade students are engaged in the creativity, wonder, and fun of mathematics. In addition to the curriculum in the workbooks, students are given a sheet of mathematical problems–a problem set or Math’s Mate. The
Fourth Graders Ready To Start Designing, Building Fourth graders are breaking out the canary knives and cardboard scissors and brushing up on their engineering skills. Next week they will be put into teams and challenged to construct something out of cardboard using the design thinking process. Students will generate ideas,
Arts Update: Look Up to See 3D Painting In Progress Seventh and eighth grade students in the Painting on the Unexpected arts elective class have started working on their second major challenge: transforming a small wooden chair into a 3-D painting. This week, students took down the chairs–the very same chairs
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
Fifth Grade Science Is Looking Up, Way Up In science fifth graders have been exploring patterns of the earth, sun, moon, and stars. We looked at photos of star trails and asked what could have caused the trails in the photo. We used a model to discover that although the
