7th grade French Literature classes worked on modern day Heroes with Mme Addo. Enjoy their presentations. Great job everyone!
Announcing… the 8th Grade Virtual Graduation and festivities on June 12th, 2020. “The best is yet to come, class of 2020!” You will move mountains! – Dr. Seuss
Desmos is the tool students are using now to learn about plotting linear equations. In this example they play a game. There are virtual coins spread out on the paper and the students plot lines to “capture” the coins. Later the students create problems for their peers to solve. Bravo!
In M. Prud’homme’s geography class the 6th grade students researched a place with very low population density. In groups they worked on projects and presented them, via zoom, to their peers. Well done!
The 7th graders just completed a research and creative writing project in Social Studies and Language Arts. After learning about the history and culture of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties in China, students then studied Ci poetry, a popular poetry form of the Song dynasty. Students researched a self-selected natural landmark in China and conducted research on the landmark’s region, its people, and its culture. Finally, using what they learned about the landmark, the region, and Ci poetry, they composed their own free-verse poems about the landmark. All of their research and poems were then compiled on a Google Map that we were able to explore as a group and take a “virtual road trip” around China!
A calligramme is a text or poem of a type developed by Guillaume Apollinaire in which the words or letters make up a shape, particularly a shape connected to the subject of the text or poem.
6th Graders are studying symmetry in math with M. Giot. To reinforce what they are learning in class, students sent photo installations of household objects to a partner who recreated the same photo installation over an axis of symmetry. What a fun way to illustrate this concept.
Middle School Students did a supply drive this year and sent their backpacks, chairs and more to Haiti this week. We are glad to help others have a tools to get a great education!
This past Thursday during the Parent-Teacher Conference afternoon, our beloved MS students were, well, “teacher less”. So what did they do? They took advantage of what SDFAS does best. Innovate, improvise and implement activities that fully engage students, then vary those activities so that all students get a taste of something they like best. In this case, 6th and 7th graders each at different moments alternated between fun and engaging athletic games on the field with Ms. Seidel, and Scrabble/Upwords gaming challenges with Mark our Head of School. Students were assigned randomly to their teams for bilingually-played word game challenges designed to foster collaboration and encouragement among students as well as stretch their language brains and strategy-building ability! Featured in the first photo below is the 6th grade group that collectively used every tile in their Upwords game box to score a fully played out game board of scrabble-like words that both spread out linked to each other as well as “stack” vertically. Controlled high energy chaos and fun!” As for the 8th grade, they had the privilege of going to Aerial Revolution (https://aerialrevolution.com/ )for an afternoon of sheer fun and the building of class cohesion. Go SDFAS. (text by Mark Rosenblum)
