Tales Of A 4-5 Something

This weekend Print hosted a cipher gathering for Waynflete. A cipher is a type of code. It was fun and exciting. Some of the activities were making binary code bracelets, coding blue bots, making cipher wheels, and working with a pig pen cipher. We also were learning morse code and found codes in books. We got to do a store wide scavenger hunt too! It was awesome! By Daphne & Elizabeth 

We are reading a book called The Wanderer by Sharon Creech. It is about a girl called Sophie and she got on a boat and is going on a trip. And the boat is called The Wanderer. Right now she is out in the open ocean. Sophie has no parents, she is an orphan, and we do not know what happened to them. She is on the boat with five other people: her three uncles - her Uncle Dock, Uncle Mo and Uncle Stew, and her two cousins - Brian and Cody. They are very different. Brian, is a great person to have on the boat but he can get on Sophie’s nerves sometimes. Cody on the other hand is goofy but when he gets in a bad situation he will get pretty serious. Sophie is really brave when it comes to doing something courageous on board the Wanderer, but in the book she described herself as: dreamy, romantic, impulsive and logical. All of the people on the boat are teaching some kind of trick like Uncle Mo is teaching radio code and every one is r eally enjoying it and Cody is  especially...

The new Lower School building has a fantastic library. We are very lucky that we got an amazing new library.   There are a lot of unique places to read a good book. One time we did an activity in the library where we labeled a map of where all the different types of books were.   If you are ever looking for a good book you should come to the Klingenstein Library, there are so many good books to choose from! By Amelia and Ellie

In September we first met our K-1 buddies. We played “shoe stew” and read. Shoe stew is a name game where all contestants remove one shoe, put it in a pile, and then guess which shoe it is. Buddies is a great way to make friends with someone that is older or younger than you. The older kids, like us, are role models. for the younger kids. There are 3 habitats in K-1 and the teachers are Stacie, Jess, and Mrs. T. as well as Gretchen, who is part time. No matter the teacher, buddies are equally awesome!! We love our Buddies! By August and Audrey

Strings class with Andy is every Thursday. Tim’s homestation has strings with Andy first and then the other classes will have him. The first time we met Andy it was when he came to our homestation and measured our arm lenghts to size us for our violas or violins. It was very generous of them to buy us all instruments so we could learn. Two classes later they had finally arrived and we got to put rosin on our bows. Then we started learning an old African folk song called Boiling The Cabbage Down to a rythm called watermellon apple. We are still working on getting faster. by JJ and Emile

This year's Convocation subject was courage. We read some books about courage like "Ish" and "Drum Dream Girl". We wrote down what courage meant, or what it looked like, or what we would do if we had all the courage in the world. So we made hearts and wrote our ideas on them and stuck them up in the gym on the walls in the gym for Convocation. The whole school came and we heard the Jazz Band and WIC and the readers who read ideas from the kids. It was fun to see the whole school together. Mercy and Lucy-Ellen