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The upper classmen have been away all week on interim, so this week's news is focusing on our EC through seventh grade students. They have enjoyed their week to shine, and have kept busy with lots of interesting activities! Read about their activities, then enjoy pictures in the slide show below!
Early Childhood
The EC class welcomed our lovely fall weather by learning about scarecrows. They each made a scarecrow craft, then they collaborated to make a real scarecrow. The students enjoyed stuffing it, setting it up outdoors, and packing it with hay.
Pre-Kindergarten
The EC joined the PreK students in the science lab with Miss Gina. They worked with "magic" cups that change color when they are cold! The PreK class also enjoyed the nice change in the weather when they took a hike to collect fall leaves.
Kindergarten
The Kindergarten students enjoyed using both hemispheres of their brain, employing coloring and cutting skills in a math activity.
First Grade
The first graders went to the zoo this week, culminating their unit on Animals and Habitat. They had a lot of fun seeing the animals the have studied in the unit. The day began with a classroom presentation called Skin, Feathers, and Fur, during which the students learned about camouflage and how animals adapt to their environment. They saw a rat and a blue tongued skink. Following that, they went to the petting zoo where they enjoyed petting sheep, goats, and a pot-bellied pig. They spent the afternoon exploring the other animals in the zoo and the reptile house. Their favorite animals were the panda bears and the baby tigers. It was a fun day and a great way to end the unit.
The first grade has also been busy learning their math facts. Timed drills are a part of the curriculum from the first grade through the fourth grade. What better way to practice math facts than using a deck of cards, dice, or dominoes? Learning math facts can actually be fun!
Second Grade
This week the second grade has continued their study of Native Americans, learning about the matriarchal Iroquois society. The Iroquois lived in "longhouses," which were passed down through the mother's family. The entire extended mother's side of a family would live in one longhouse. Miss Ruth's classroom has been transformed into a longhouse, and the students, taking on the role of Iroquois children, have been busy in "the longhouse" painting their journals and writing about different aspects of life as an Iroquois. They took the first step in creating a woodand Indian village this week as they each built a longhouse out of milk cartons and paper "bark." Next week, they will work on the village gardens, and also make false faces (masks) to scare away the diseases of winter.
Third Grade
Third graders went on a "Spider Walk," gathering data for their study of spiders. They used web hunt charts to record their findings. Students identified different types of webs, including orb webs, funnel webs, sheet webs, cobb webs, and triangle webs.
Fourth Grade
Miss Meredith's fourth grade art students are studying the human figure in motion and creating a work inspired by "Icarus" by Henri Matisse. Matisse is one of several modern artists to be featured at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, in the show "Picasso to Warhol." Fourth grade students will take a field trip to the museum on October 21 to see the exhibition.
Fourth graders recently took a trip to the Tennessee Aquarium, where they enjoyed visiting the touch tank, the penguin exhibit, and getting an up-close encounter with butterflies
Meanwhile, in the classroom, they have been busy studying the continents and latitude and longitude, conducting an experiment on salinity, designing a book about the oceans, and seeking out acts of kindness to add links to their chain as part of the School's Rachel's Challenge incentive.
Fifth Grade
The fifth grade classes are in a serious competition for "$1 words." This year both fifth grade classes have been challenged to see which class can find the most $1 words. To find dollar words, each letter of the alphabet is assigned a cent value: a=1 cent, b=2 cents, c=3 cents, etc. The students then add the value of each letter in the word to see if it equals $1.00. Once the students find a $1 word, they post it on the word wall. To help the students along with their search, Mrs. Kari and Mrs. Suzanne continue to publish clues on their blog. The students have found a total of 45 words so far with Mrs. Suzanne's class ahead by only 4 words.
Fifth grade students recently had a visit from "Rosie the Riveter." Drs. John and Fran Carter spoke to students about their experiences during World War II. Dr. Fran Carter worked as a riveter on B-29 airplanes while her husband volunteered as a paratrooper and served as a sergeant with combat forces in Europe. The couple shared stories and pictures from that era and they even entertained the students with a dance. Our students were fortunate to hear these personal accounts of this time in our nation's history.
Sixth Grade
Sixth grade art students may be attempting the impossible. They are making drawings of Victorian houses in GLUE!
They gathered together in the sunshine during break today for a photo opportunity. They're holding up their index fingers to show Heritage is number one!
Seventh Grade
Students in seventh grade English used the change in weather as an opportunity to take their writing outside and be observant of the change of season.
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The Lower School has an on-going service project to support the local food pantry by bringing items to their monthly assembly. To encourage their fellow students to bring cornbread this month, the fourth graders are planning to visit the other classrooms. They have made posters as a visual reminder and also have a "jingle" to share in hopes that no one will forget to support October sharing! 
C. Dieckmann and B. Burns, fourth grade September hosts for Assembly, helped deliver 118 containers of applesauce to the Food Pantry. We are most appreciative of the contributions for the Food Pantry. We are one of a very few groups who contribute on a regular basis. 
