This week we are studying Costa Rica as part of our Global Focus study that we do every year here in the Lower School! It is a fun week with special classes all day long! The school recently has been taken to Costa Rica and we have been doing some dancing as part of an effort to teach us about the traditions and celebrations of Costa Rica. We learned the salsa! We were assigned to a partner to dance with. The girls wore fancy skirts and the boys got to do a bit scarf dancing. Here is how to do the salsa. To do the salsa you need to get in the groove of things. To start off you might want to just dance around and flail your arms before you begin to dance. Find a partner and put your hands flat against each others. Your elbows should be at your side. The lady always puts her right foot back, and the man always puts his left foot forward. (You should move your feet in unison for best results.) After that you just simply put your feet together. Then the lady does the opposite of what the man did and vice versa. (The lady puts her left foot forward and the man puts his right foot back.) Feet together. Then you just repeat. After a while you will get the hang of things and will now be able to add the twirl. For a women's twirl the lady holds hands with the man and she spins under his arm to her right. Then the man releases his right arm and the lady twirls out keeping a firm grip onto his left hand. For a man’s twirl the lady holds her right hand with his left and he turns 180 degrees to his right. Then he touches his other hand and turns back to start. The man always tells without words when it is time for a spin because he will lift his right hand up for the lady to twirl. Our dance sessions start right at 8:15. It is a great way to start our day in Costa Rica. - Julia
Every year 4-5 takes a mystery trip. We don't know where we are going and we find out when we get there. Sometimes we go to the beach or a lake. The teachers kick off the conversation with absurd ideas. Sometimes it is an exotic place or a spot that doesn't even exist. This year they told us we were going to a bean factory, (which was knocked down) a farm that had a rare and elusive invisible sheep called cloud sheep, and that we would be working for the Morton Salt Company picking salt off the salt hay on the marsh. The teachers told us that after we help with the beans and salt we would get credit on the labels of the containers and we would get to bring home the wool of the cloud sheep. Last year's kick off was even more absurd. They told us we were going to a donut farm to plant donut seeds which were cheerios, go to have tea with the late Queen in England, go on a treasure hunt, and visit the cheese museum. After telling us where we were going the teachers gave us a pa...
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