Our showcase launches our school-wide theme of the Seven Continents. Join us for our very own Olympic Opening Ceremony featuring the parade of athletes and performances from around the world. Performers should arrive at the MIDDLE SCHOOL by 5:40.
Our class will perform Hoya Hoye, an Ethiopian folk song that celebrates the end of summer and beginning of the Ethiopian New Year. Please practice! The music and lyrics are available on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdWeijLJA6A
Our class will perform Hoya Hoye, an Ethiopian folk song that celebrates the end of summer and beginning of the Ethiopian New Year. Please practice! The music and lyrics are available on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdWeijLJA6A
Festivals of Light
All around the world, people celebrate different important holidays during fall and winter. Each week in December we are learning about a different "Festival of Light" that celebrates light in a time of darkness, good defeating bad, and hope for a better world.
December 16th: Christmas
Lights on trees, lights on houses, lights in windows! The days are short and dark, but it is a colorful season. People exchange gifts and cards and gather with friends and families. Students will learn about the Mexican legend of the Poinsetta and create their own gingerbread person adventure.
December 9th: Diwali (Dee-val-i) aka The Festival of Lights.
Students will learn about this Holiday celebrated anywhere Hindu and Sikh people live, but most famously in India. For five days, people gather to celebrate the Hindi New Year and good defeating bad. They clean and decorate their homes, exchange gifts and cards, light lots of candles in their homes, and light fireworks. There is a lot of song and dance.Ms. Naughton will lead students in making rangoli- decorative mandalas that are usually created outside entryways with colored sand and/or flower petals. Ms. Wolfson will teach students how to make festive candle holder- divas. Ms. Shapero will teach students about traditional Indian dance- they'll learn some moves and check out Ms. Shapero's costumes and jewelry.
December 2nd: Hanukkah aka The Festival of Lights
Students will learn about the history of this Jewish Holiday. They played dreidel and made their own "Flip the Latke" game. They also tasted latkes and heard the story of The Magic Dreidels.
All around the world, people celebrate different important holidays during fall and winter. Each week in December we are learning about a different "Festival of Light" that celebrates light in a time of darkness, good defeating bad, and hope for a better world.
December 16th: Christmas
Lights on trees, lights on houses, lights in windows! The days are short and dark, but it is a colorful season. People exchange gifts and cards and gather with friends and families. Students will learn about the Mexican legend of the Poinsetta and create their own gingerbread person adventure.
December 9th: Diwali (Dee-val-i) aka The Festival of Lights.
Students will learn about this Holiday celebrated anywhere Hindu and Sikh people live, but most famously in India. For five days, people gather to celebrate the Hindi New Year and good defeating bad. They clean and decorate their homes, exchange gifts and cards, light lots of candles in their homes, and light fireworks. There is a lot of song and dance.Ms. Naughton will lead students in making rangoli- decorative mandalas that are usually created outside entryways with colored sand and/or flower petals. Ms. Wolfson will teach students how to make festive candle holder- divas. Ms. Shapero will teach students about traditional Indian dance- they'll learn some moves and check out Ms. Shapero's costumes and jewelry.
December 2nd: Hanukkah aka The Festival of Lights
Students will learn about the history of this Jewish Holiday. They played dreidel and made their own "Flip the Latke" game. They also tasted latkes and heard the story of The Magic Dreidels.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013
FALL GARDEN CLEAN UP DAY
FALL GARDEN CLEAN UP DAY
- This Friday, October 18th is our school-wide garden clean-up day. We’ll head out to the gardens right after All School and stay until the beds are weeded and prepared for winter.
- Please make sure that your student/s are wearing clothes that can get dirty and sneakers or boots.
- You are welcome to join us! Please check with the main office to make sure your CORI is current.
Important Dates
- Friday, October 18th FALL GARDEN CLEAN UP
- Wednesday, October 23rd Fall Conferences (evening)
- Friday, October 25th, Fall Conferences (half-day)
- Friday, November 1st, Fall Conferences (half-day)
*Our classroom is peanut and tree nut free. Please do not send in items made with peanuts, walnuts, almonds/ marzipan/ almond paste, cashews, pistachios, brazil nuts, filberts/hazelnuts, macademia nuts, pecans, beechnut, butternut, or pine nuts.
*Coconut IS allowed.
*Sunflower seed butter is a good alternative to peanut butter.
For more information on nut allergies please see www.foodallergy.org
*Coconut IS allowed.
*Sunflower seed butter is a good alternative to peanut butter.
For more information on nut allergies please see www.foodallergy.org
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NEWS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 Our Butterfly flies and eats!
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 BUTTERFLY and NEW Chrysalis
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 CHRYSALISES!
The newly metamorphasized Mourning Cloak Butterfly!
9/17/13 Our monarch caterpillar has decided to make its chrysalis next to the other one!
9/16/18 We have a chrysalis of a Mourning Cloak butterfly from Magic Wings' gift shop and a Monarch caterpillar from Mrs. Pitrat's yard!
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 HARVEST CELEBRATION
Celebrating the 2013 harvest with Ms. Shapero's and Ms. Wolfson's classes
- Beet Throwing
- Husk Cherry Picking Contest
- Harvest Song Sing-a-Long
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: HARVEST TIME!
This week we've been harvesting beets, onions, carrots and tomatoes that students planted last year. Thanks to families who volunteered in the gardens over the summer, the crops look great! Come by and check out the fruits, veggies and flowers while they last. Help yourself to tomatoes and husk cherries.