Happy Earth Day!

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."-Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Today we:

-Watched the PBS documentary Earth Days (Middle School/High School)

-Discussed sustainability, renewable, and non-renewable resources (Middle School/Elementary)

-Played a renewable resource game

-Read The Lorax (Middle School/Elementary)

-Planted lemon balm, purslane, and pansies (Middle School/Elementary)

Volleyball with Katie

Grade Level: Middle School and High School

Objective: To learn volleyball skills while practicing collaboration, communication, and teamwork

Photos: Social Studies projects and spring hikes

Modeling a Han dynasty era house

Social Studies, painting and working

hiking to Ten Mile Falls with our principal

Silkworm Science

Grade Level: 6

Objective: To learn about animal life-cycles, needs, and genetics through hatching and observing silk worms

Hiking to Lucerne

Grade Level: 6

Objective: To learn about ecology while challenging ourselves physically

Slack-lining and group intiatives

Grade Levels: Middle School and High School (physical education)

Objective: To work on balance, problem solving, and group work

Theodore Roosevelt's "Speech at the Grand Canyon"

Grades: Middle School and High School

Objective: To begin a new unit on activists by examining, discussing, re-enacting, and contextualizing Theodore Roosevelt's "Speech at the Grand Canyon"

"I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children’s children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if he can travel at all should see."-"Speech at the Grand Canyon", Arizona, 1903

Today we:

-Gave staged readings of Theodore Roosevelt's "Speech at the Grand Canyon," re-imaging how he may have delivered the content

-Discussed our reactions to Roosevelt

-Watched a clip about the Grand Canyon from the PBS series The National Parks: America's Best Idea

-Talked about the history of National Parks in America, focusing on the Grand Canyon and the National Antiquities Act

Performance Art with Mimi Allin

Grades: Elementary and Middle School

Objectives: To learn from performance artist Mimi Allen while engaging in movement studies and community interaction

 

Performance Art with Mimi Allin by A., grade 6

            Doing art with Mimi was so fun! She made me think about things I never thought about before and do things I never done before. It was really cool to see things happening and not know what is going on but then after everybody told you what they were doing to realize how they chose to display that. I can’t wait to see the video and see if what I was doing looked like what I was trying to do. I also can’t wait to see what other people were doing while I was concentrating on my art and nobody else’s. I really enjoyed doing it and hope Mimi will come back and do it again with us.

Art with Mimi by K, grade 6

      We went out with Mimi the artist in residence on a “train ride”. We carried cardboard suit cases and got into costumes, maybe a wig or a dress. It was so much fun when we got to the road, we walked around in different ways, trying to be beautiful of ugly or maybe represent what it means to be blind or having work. Mimi had her camera and she filmed us all doing it in the same film it was exciting and very interesting to do it. I hope I can do it again sometime soon!