Happy Passover (Pesach)!

The children read about Passover and why this is such an important event for Jewish people. Below you can see how the children collaborated to retell the story.  The sheep the children made represent Moses following a sheep to the burning bush and being spoke to by God and told to go back to Egypt and free his people from slavery.

Art in Spanish Class

Our spanish teacher, Senora Barnes, has spent time teaching the children about spanish speaking painter Pablo Picasso.  The children learned about him and then had an opportunity to use shapes to learn about his cubist type paintings. The children spoke spanish to describe what they had been working on and they also created faces in the style of Picasso where they seemed to be looking in two directions at once.

Art Demonstration

Marina Maroto is an art teacher in the Middle School at Cape Henry Collegiate School. She put on a demonstration of how to paint beautiful eggs. The children watched as she used wax, dye and paints to create these remarkable decorative eggs.

Chinese High School Student - Bob

Each week, we have a student who attends Upper School at Cape Henry, Bob, visit our classroom.  He is teaching the children about Chinese food, culture, music, art and language. At the end of each weekly lesson, he is teaching the children how to write the character for one of the animals on the Chinese zodiac and how to pronounce the word as well as teaching the children some conversational Chinese. In our first lesson, Bob showed the children a clip from Frozen and a clip from Mulan and led the children in a discussion as they compared the clothes, the buildings and the music in Europe to China.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea projects

The children had to create their favorite scene from the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. Above, Charlie chose when they went to see the lost city of Atlantis that was damaged by an earthquake.

North America

We read and wrote about North America, the third largest continent. The children painted physical maps detailing the lakes, mountains, deserts and oceans.

Our basketball reader - Ayron Hutton

Ayron has read to our class every single week this school year.  His season has just come to an end and we presented him with a team photograph signed by all of the first grade students in our class!