Week of February 18th

We had another great week of skits in the Stingray classroom!  The students were excited to tell the rest of the class about a pyramid tomb, how Romans prayed to the heads of dead men who were killed in battle, and the poisoning of a teacher who the Greeks felt lost a battle for them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
We are also well on our way to being simple machine engineers.  The students are working in groups of 3 to build a set of simple machines that will achieve a task.  Here the students explain what they are doing.

Group 1: We are trying to have Nerds candies hit the heart target by using a pulley, levers, inclined planes, and a catapult. 

 

 

 

Group 2: The purpose of our simple machines is to deliver a piece of candy via an airplane which rolls into dominoes, hitting a book, which will fling the candy into a bucket. 

 

 

 

 
Group 3: The purpose of our simple machine project to to deliver candy from one point to another point where a person awaits.  We will accomplish our goal by the following series of steps:
1. Slice a clementine in half.
2. The clementine will fall into a series of books.
3. The books will fall into a train.
4. The train slides down the inclined plane, knocking a marble down a slope of tracks.
5. The marble falls into a cup.
6. The cup falls. 
 

 

 

 
Group 4: The purpose of our simple machine is to swing a piece of candy to a random location.  There are 6 steps to accomplish this mission.  One step is to knock down dominoes.

 

 

 

 

Week of February 10

The students performed another skit about their Language Arts books this week.  We had the Groovy Greeks explaining about the Trojan Horse, the Rotten Romans who told us about how the Romans got the elephants that belonged to the Greeks to turn against them, and the Awesome Egyptians who acted out the curse of the mummy's tomb.  It is always fun to see what the students come up with!

 

The Trojan Horse

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Greek Elephant

 

 

The Greek Elephants turn on them!

 

 

The great tomb of King Aknaton's daughter

 

 

 

 

 

The King cut off her hand to prevent her from getting to the afterlife,

 

 

But she came back and claimed it!

Week of February 3

We had two artists from the Puget Sound Sumi Artists in University Place come to Seabury and work with the Stingrays and Serpents on the ancient art form of Sumi painting.  The students learned how to mix the strong ink to make color variations and how to hold and use the bamboo brush to make bamboo, pussy willow, and Chinese characters.  The artists allowed the students to add a seal to their pictures if they chose and mounted each student's picture onto tag board.  The pictures are coming home today in the Friday Folder and will be ready for a 8x10 frame.  The students did a fabulous job!