Birds!

We started studying birds in science by first talking about their basic needs for survival. They need food, water, space, and shelter. It was fun to look around our own Lower School campus to identify and record places that provided each of these for our resident birds.

After learning that birds have specialized beaks which allow them to pick up different types of food, we decided to try an experiment. Each of us was a "bird" with a different beak. (The beaks were: a clothespin, a toothpick, a pair of scissors, and a spoon.) We put 20 pieces of one type of food at a time on the floor and four of us tried to pick up the food with our beaks. The foods were marbles (representing snails), gummy worms (representing worms, of course!), raisins (representing grubs), and styrofoam packing peanuts (representing water bugs.) It was interesting to see which beaks picked up each type of food!

After the experiment, we drew graphs to show our results.


We wanted to attract some birds to watch, so we each made a bird feeder. We put some shortening with oatmeal on a pinecone and then rolled it in birdseed. Those birds are in for a real treat! And we will have a treat watching them come to our feeders!

French: La Fête du Fromage

Today was the highly anticipated Fête du Fromage! The girls sampled le camembert, la mimolette, le roquefort, le comté, le chèvre, and le morbier. While they ate, the girls kept track of their opinions on worksheets by categorizing each cheese under J'aime beaucoup, J'aime, and C'est bon (our polite way of saying Je n'aime pas tellement). History has shown that la mimolette is above and beyond the favorite while poor le roquefort is the least favorite. This year was no different but, no matter what their opinions were, today was a very tasty and fun day in French class!

2nd Grade - Social Studies Map Skills: States & Capitals

 2nd Grade - Social Studies 

               Map Skills: States & Capitals

Art_Zoo Exhibits are almost complete!

The girls are finishing up their exhibit designs. First they focused on form, figuring out to make high, middle and low areas for the exhibit. They made sure they considered the animal, the zoo keeper and the visitor. They also made sure their designs had borders, shelters, and water features. Finally, they are adding the color and texture making their exhibits look "real". The limitations on materials and spatial challenges resulted in very innovative ideas and clever solutions. They used clear plastic, model magic, air dry clay, cardboard, popsicle sticks, tape and glue. Soon we will put the zoo together and on display! 

K-2 Spring Concert

https://youtu.be/fxWLysGtPbw

Google Expeditions

Students in grade 1st-5th explored augmented reality through Google Expeditions.  In second grade, students observed dinosaurs and bees.