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Greenwood Friends School students in kindergarten, first, and second grades constructed snowflakes and read books about winter as the school’s holiday break approached. Some books were by professional authors, such as Madeline’s Christmas by Bemelmans, while some books were written and illustrated by the students themselves.
Inspired by Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, students wrote and illustrated a page about their own horrible day. All the student pages were put together into the Primary Class’ Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Book.
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| All School Winter Concert | | Students, parents, and friends gathered at the school for the Winter Concert. From the preschoolers singing “Jingle Bells” to fifth and sixth graders playing instruments, many songs celebrating the various winter holidays were played and sung. The program included a sing-along portion, with students and audience participating.
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| | Lights, Camera, Celebrations! | | Young students in Barb Golder’s PrePrimary class are learning about many traditions and types of celebrations from around the world. They are looking at ways various holidays are the same and/or different through stories and activities.
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| Young Authors | | In Reading and Writing Workshop, Primary students explored the picture-book Alexander’s and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. They created their own stories with words, illustrations, and photographs (of themselves making “terrible” faces). The students finished the week mixing and baking healthy treats to sweeten their days.
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| | Middle Ages | | Intermediate and Middle School students are studying the Middle Ages. Small groups are exploring life in a castle, castle construction, and barbarian groups in Europe. In PE, students are playing games from the middle ages, and the culinary arts class baked gingerbread, a recipe that traveled from the Middle East with the Crusades. The unit concludes with a mystery- King Arthur, fact or fiction?
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Music, Music, Music
Young students at Greenwood have studied examples of opera, “Die Walker,” and ballet, “The Nutcracker,” as part of a unit establishing the differences between different types of performances. Also in the course of studying music and performance: students learned the basics of the recorder including simple songs, composed and performed a full-class melody, and improvised dance moves to a djembe rhythm.
| Leaf Rubbings and Food Portraits
Students created leaf rubbings in art class. After gathering various leaves, they created the rubbings, cut out individual leaves, and reassembled them on paper to make new compositions, such as "leaf monsters," airplanes, and flowers. Older students also viewed Archimboldo food portraits. Students recently participated in many other art activities, including food stamping, apron decorating, learning about and drawing still lifes and cornucopias, learning about portraits, and making collaged portraits in food cutouts.
| Science Visitor
Alumni parent and state environmental worked Stephanie Singer visited Intermediate and Middle School science classes. She showed students an Enviroscape model and demonstrated non-point and point source pollution and erosion.
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