Dr. Cox from the Music Center - On Tuesday, we had our second of ten theater classes with Dr. Colin Cox, a teaching artist from the Music Center. A true Renaissance man, Dr. Cox is both a biochemist and a professor of Shakespeare. Our content area is science, and he is focussing on Life Cycles & Traits. He is also incorporating American Sign Language! At our first class, each student chose an animal, then learned to finger-spell its name and its sign. At our class this week, students chose a California native animal. The assignment this week is to learn to finger-spell, learn the sign, and learn about the animal to be able to share a fun fact at next week's class, which will be on Monday. Our Studio Day, the day on which we invite our families to come, is Tuesday, April 3rd. I will give you more information as I learn it, but mark your calendar now.
Visual Art with Mrs. Zierhut - We are enjoying our weekly art class with Mrs. Zierhut. Our first project was to create a coil pot out of clay, which we glazed. Now we are learning about the proportions of the human body --- ask your child how many heads tall the average six- to eight-year old is!
Thanks to your support of MKS (the Make Keppel Special fund), we have these great arts classes. Along with the annual fund, the upcoming APEX Run Run provides the funds that make this possible. See today's Thursday folder for more information on APEX.
i-Ready Parent Report - Please note that your child is bringing home the parent report for the midyear i-Ready diagnostic test in today's Thursday folder. Stapled to that is a homework update for your child, based on those results.