Celebration of Learning.

Thank you, to everyone for coming to see Kindergartens performance. They all worked very hard, and really proved that they are risk takers. 

Week 16 Where We Are in Place and Time

We attempted to do "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac for one of our Celebration of Learning songs.

The Japanese teacher helped us in our endeavor with our 8 intermission songs!

This was our dress rehearsal! Diego and Morris did the comedy skit "Who's on First."

Now listen carefully! This old time comedy skit is a play on words and you must be a thinker to understand the meaning!

Morris sang a Japanese song with the Upper Elementary group.

Diego was committed and confidently practiced Minuet in G by Bach.

Week 16 Where We are in Place and Time

We attempted to do "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac for one of our Celebration of Learning songs.

The Japanese teacher helped us in our endeavor with our 8 intermission songs!

This was our dress rehearsal! Diego and Morris did the comedy skit "Who's on First."

Now listen carefully! This old time skit is a play on words and you must be a thinker to understand the meaning!

Morris sang a Japanese song with the Upper Elementary group.

Diego was committed and showed confidence by practicing and playing Minuet in G by Bach.

Grade 4: Week 14-15: Where We Are In Place And Time: Inquiry Presentations

For this unit, the students were inquiring into how "Exploration leads to discovery and develops new understandings".  Their summative task was to choose an explorer or scientist to research based upon the three concepts of our inquiry; Causation, Function and Connection.  Their task was to find out the "Reasons, feelings attitudes and motivations toward exploration", how the "Tools and methods of exploration" worked, and "What we learn through exploration" and how it is connected between people through time.  These were also our three lines of inquiry that helped guide our unit.  The students made a non-fiction book about the person and gave a presentation with a demonstration of how the science works.  Take a look at them presenting!

Grade 3 - Week 15: Where We Are In Place And Time

Thank you all for coming to the Celebration of Learning - Winter Performance!
Have a happy holiday.

Grade 2 Week 16: Where We Are in Place and Time

I hope everyone enjoyed the Winter performance yesterday. The children worked really had to put on a great show! Have a nice break and see you all next year. 

Grade 1 Week 15 Where We Are in Place and Time

Grade 1 had the chance to visit the Fukugawa-Edo Museum last week. We learned what life was like in Japan 180 years ago. They had a chance to visit different houses and buildings that look like they are from the Edo period. After that, we had a quick visit to Kiyosumi Gardens for a snack and walk around to enjoy nature. It was a great morning! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped out on our field trip.

Week 15 Where We Are in Place and Time Grade 6

We have been practicing for our Celebration of Learning. This song is entitled "Europa" by Carlos Santana. Our group will be using a special flame drive on our ukulele amp to make it sound like an electric guitar. 


We did the following real-life word problem in Math: Mrs. Mason volunteers to make one prize ribbon for each of the forty-seven students who will attend math camp. Mrs. Mason will decorate each prize ribbon with sequins. Mrs. Mason buys packages of sequins. Each package holds one-fourth of a pound of sequins. Each package has enough sequins to decorate six prize ribbons. How many packages of sequins does Mrs. Mason need to buy to make the prize ribbons? How many pounds of sequins does Mrs. Mason have to buy to make the prize ribbons? What part of a pound of sequins will be used to make each prize ribbon? Show all your mathematical thinking.

Mrs. Mason needs to buy 8 packages of sequins, which is 2 pounds of sequins. 1/24 of a pound of sequins will make one prize ribbon.

We also did a problem about a snowflake about what angles are the outer points on a snowflake.

 Grade 5 and 6 have been working hard in Art on their New Year's Day cards. Next week, a card will be selected from each Grade level and sent to parents and friends.

Our students have been trying to use more ingenious words in our reflections and writings. 

We have a surprise planned for our Celebration of Learning and it may involve this horn!