Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been learning about the artwork of French painter Claude Monet. They learned that Monet was an Impressionist painter who loved to paint outside in the open air, not in a stuffy studio! This type of painter is called a plein air landscape painter. He was particularly interested in […]
Second聽and Third graders have been studying the art and life of Winslow Homer, an American painter who is best known for his marine subject matter. In art class, they looked at several of Homer鈥檚 paintings including The Gulf Stream, Home Sweet Home, Fog Warning聽and A Visit from the Old Mistress. Homer worked for magazines, made […]
Congratulations to our sweet Lower School students for receiving these awards on Wednesday in chapel!
Mrs. Brown鈥檚 third grade class was surprised by a visit from artist, Jon Brown, on Wednesday, October 18th. They had fun learning how to sculpt with clay and created some interesting characters to take home. Afterwards, they were given a lesson in calligraphy and cursive. New cursive books were passed out, and the students were […]
Forty 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are learning how to program robots Dash and Dot using one of our coding apps on our school iPads. Students are able to program these robots to complete a sequence of events. Whereas in the past we programmed characters on a computer screen, now we have an opportunity […]
In Lower School chapel, Mrs. Dawkins’s fourth grade class performed the story of creation from the book of Genesis.
From the desk of Sandra Fritcher, Lower School Principal: Next Thursday and Friday, October 19-20, are scheduled conference days at the Lower School. Students will not come to school these days. Instead, moms and dads will come to the Lower School to meet with the teachers. These conferences provide the parents with useful information about […]
Second Grade students learned about living and non-living things in science. Each student brought a fruit or vegetable to class on Friday. The students classified each food item into the six parts of plants-flower, stem, root, seed, fruit and leaf. Then students tasted each food item and recorded whether they liked it or not. Many […]
Last week in Lower School chapel, Mrs. Ponce’s fourth grade class performed the story of The Good Samaritan from Luke 10: 25-37 before following it up with a modern-day version of the story.
This week in Lower School chapel, Mrs. Bickerstaff’s fifth grade class acted out the story of David and Goliath from 1 Samuel 17.
Kindergarten and 1st graders are in the process of making a monochromatic self-portrait with lines in the background. Each class has been assigned a different color of the rainbow to color their artworks. Once all the classes have completed their art, the portraits will make a giant rainbow display. The first couple of days we […]
Today, many of our community helpers drove their emergency vehicles onto our campus to teach Pre-K and Kindergarten students about what they do in their job. Our students were able to crawl through the back of a police car, get their heartrate checked in the back of an ambulance, walk through a smoke house and […]