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
A few weeks ago, we started creating self portraits. We learned about Romero Britto and his style , which includes patterns, bold lines, bright colors and simple designs. We all added food into our Romero Britto-inspired self-portraits because we are telling people about ourselves and our favorite foods. We are doing a study called Local Foods and we are adding foods, sometimes in repetitive patterns, to our portraits. We hung the portraits in our classroom and now we can see the similarities and differences in our class. By showing our favorite foods others can relate and connect to us. We assembled the foods into bright patterns and divided the sections with thick black lines like Romero Britto. We also hid other things we like into our self portraits. We put as much detail as we could into the pieces to show our identities. After we finished them, we mounted them on black paper and hung them on the wall. We hope you like them. This is our first blog post of the year and we work...
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