Skiing
Friday, January 30, 2009
We all had a great day of skiing at Ragged Mountain. The conditions were great and we had great lessons today. Beginning skiers made great improvements today.
Hood Museum Visit
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Here students are at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. We are viewing a European Art exhibit in preparation for our trip to museums in London. Some favorites were a bronze statue, Gloria Victis, and the paintings A Farrier Near A Forge, and Still Life With Grapes. On the way up and back we told stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Australia Pin Map
Students working on the Australia pin map. Students idenitfy and label maps using hands-on materials.
Outwitting the Imp
The upper el class is practicing for their performance at the January community meeting. They are putting on a sock puppet interpretation of "Outwitting the Imp", an African folk tale.
Monday afternoon reading group
Monday, January 26, 2009
We've been reading "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart in Mr. Nichols' reading group. We highly recommend the book for upper elementary students.
We had an excellent day skiing at Ragged Mountain. The conditions were great and we all skied until we were tired.
Family Night 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Students demonstrating the classroom work to parents. Here we have a student demonstrating the cubing work and another student showing a parent how to do "wild writing."
Students and parents working on Cursive, Calligraphy and Hands-on Algebra equations during our annual Family Night event.
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