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 3-D 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
Labyrinth Students Enjoy Books by Campfire Labyrinth grades three through five participated in a summer reading challenge. In collaboration with the Erskine Library, classes completed a Mentimeter survey about which challenges they took on and enjoyed and how they accomplished them. Students shared their favorite books from the summer, and
Fourth Graders Make the Dream Work Fourth graders have started the year by talking about community and teamwork. One of their first activities was to make a pyramid of six cups, using only a rubber band and four strings (they were not allowed to touch the cups). That sounds plenty
First grade teacher Geoffrey Fox, second grade teacher Katie O’Brien, and fourth grade teacher Emily Crawford attended the Responsive Classroom Elementary Core Course at Burlington High School. This national program trains teachers on strategies for creating a positive community, ensuring engaging academics, effectively managing their class, and responding to their
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