Eighth grade presented their projects, ranging from learning to fly a plane to immersion in Shakespearean acting.
Class of 2012 8th-Grade Projects
Reading Buddies
Seventh-graders visited the second-graders for some reading time on Thursday, March 22, 2012. The two grades paired up at the beginning of the year to do activities together from pumpkin carving to reading together. The second-graders have someone to look up to, and the seventh-graders get to be mentors. This is the second time they have met to read, with more meetings planned in the future.
Math in Second Grade
Second-grade teacher Aria Nevin worked with students on their math block during main lesson on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Using different approaches from hand games and circle exercises to counting gems and drawing pictures, students learn to solve math equations creatively. Students focus intensely on not just memorizing answers but experiencing math with their bodies through movement exercises. Students worked with number patterns, multiplication and division tables, as well as addition and subtraction. They also practiced learning how to borrow and carry over numbers while adding and subtracting three digit numbers.
Circle exercises
Counting gems help out with larger numbers
Available for questions
And more questions
If you’re curious to learn more about the multi-sensory way in which math is taught at a Waldorf school, please give Admissions Director Kelly Hiselman a call – 978-927-1936.
Fresh Skis
The eighth grade class went cross-country skiing on Moraine Farm, making the most of fresh snow on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Being one of the few snowfalls during this unusually warm winter, the students enjoyed the opportunity to make use of the skis. The school has forty sets of skis, poles and boots and cross-country skiing is now part of the gym/movement curriculum for middle school.
Second Graders Perform “Quest for the Ice Dragon”
Second graders gave an animated poem recital of “Quest for the Ice Dragon” written by grandparent Beth Crowe. The kids had a lot of fun acting out the different lines in costume for family and friends. Mrs. Crowe also worked with the students to create a felted mural based on the students’ detailed illustrations of the poem.
