Pennies For Peace

After hearing a reading of the book, Listen to the Wind, the child’s version of Greg Mortonston’s  true story Three Cups of Tea,  our students became inspired to collect pennies for pencils. Students in the Mixed Age Group have been collecting pennies by doing chores at home. This student-run fund raiser has been a great success! We will have a total amount of money collected soon!

Early American Day

Counting in Chinese

Joshua, Foote School's exchange teacher from China joined our class to teach a lesson on counting in Chinese. This was much more than memorizing the number words to 10! Joshua demonstrated how the Chinese number system incorporates place value when counting above 10. For example: The number 21 in Chinese is said two-tens-one (er shi yi). Before we knew it, the class was counting to 100 in Chinese!

The students listened intently as Joshua gave each child a Chinese name during his last class visit!

The Trick Crayfish

Using a crayfish shape and clothespins for the materials in this science experiment, the children continued with their investigative approach to learning about balance. Their assignment was to locate 3 different points of balance while utilizing the clothespins as weights. They mapped each point and the positions of the clothespins.

Some of the comments made by the children:

"I did it!"

"Try it this way!"

"Look, look! Come and see what I can do!"

"Weight helped with balancing. The tops balanced with more weight at the bottom and the crayfish balanced with weight placed at the bottom, too!"

Tops!

How does weight affect how long a top spins?

The children used a straw and a variety of weights to build different models of tops. After lots of spinning and analyzing their data, many students noticed that their tops spun the longest with the most weight placed towards the bottom!