Tales Of A 4-5 Something

We got to see Juanna who told us about what life was like in Guatemala. She told us about how school was different there. The students at the school she teaches at get 5 hours of school instead of 7 hours like we have here. But they get 2 hours of lunch instead of 40 minutes and they get to go home for lunch or to a store. She told us about how the seasons are different. Instead of all 4 seasons they have a wet season and a dry season. She let us ask questions and since she could not speak English we would ask our question then Senora Meagan would translate it in Spanish so that Juanna could understand. It was a really cool experience! Maggie and Elizabeth

I like writing poetry and wrote these haiku over the summer when I was bored before camp. It is exciting to think that other people will read my writing. Lucia   Beach Rocks shifting under waves                      Sunburned shoulders face the sky In every movement  Gulls   Swooping and soaring  Gliding high over the waves  Hungry forever                                                                           Seaweed Slippery and wet  Laying out on the wet rocks Shifting with the tides Wa...

Omnikin ball is a game we play in PE. You play by having four teams of blue, red, yellow and green. The teams gather in the middle of the gym. The coaches throw up the ball and say ‘omnikin' and shout a team color. The team that is called tries to catch the ball and one member would hit the ball up again and say another team color. That team would catch the ball and do the same the green team did and they would call a different team. It is like one big chain reaction and we really like. Josie and Cooper

4-5 went on a field trip to the Fore River salt marsh to have a closing ceremony and to give the land an acknowledgement because we want people to know about how the native people had the land first and how the Europeans took the land that was rightfully theirs. We also wanted to share how the habitat is important to us and to animals. We went around the trails and collected a lot of trash. Then we collected things that caught our eye that were part of nature and put them in a stick circle. We imagined how long the installation would last through the winter. Then we had apple cider and popcorn as a treat to end our experience at the marsh for 2022. It was fun learning about the marsh this year! It was the last day at the salt marsh until spring. We had to do a little cleanup and so we set off in search of trash, we found a bunch of garbage including tennis balls, bottles, foam and some rags. Then we each found a piece of nature and then we put our pieces of nature in a circle before e...

Before Thanksgiving the Lower School went to Sills Hall to watch a robotics club present their robots. There are teams all over the country and every year there is a challenge that the robots have to complete. This year it was throwing balls in hoops. Here is a video from another place . There are 2 robots that they made, one of them was named Charlie or Chuck. They showed us their skills and let us talk about them. It takes a lot of work to build the robots and then to code them. It doesn't get done in one day and teams have to keep working on it for a long time.  Hudson and Abraham The robot display was incredible! The coolest thing was watching the robots shoot hoops! The ball was sucked up from the robot's side and projected into the hoop. It took a few tries but it eventually made it! It was amazing to see the ball be flung across the court. The other robot could shoot hoops as well, but it could do more! This robot’s name was Sebastian, and it was smaller but faster! I...

Today was a great day! There was a haunted path in Sills which is one of our gyms. Everything was decorated for Halloween and we had lots of stations. On the Haunted Path there was a haunted tunnel, a bounce house, bowling, eyeball toss, and more! My favorite thing was the haunted tunnel that you would ride through on scooters. The whole Lower School got to do it. Thank you to our pe teachers and some parents for setting it up! -Copper and Maggie-

In Spanish class we are making Calaveras. First we started with sugar and water and put the mixture into molds of skulls. Then we put them on a tray and placed them in the oven. After a few days we got them back from Señora Megan and we got to decorate them! Calaveras are a symbol of Dia de los Muertos. This day is a Spanish holiday to celebrate the deceased ones.  -Grover and Elizabeth