Author: s.nelson

October 2019

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We have officially begun our school year programming. We started in early September with a “Safety Day” where students learned what to do in case of fire, tornado, etc. (It was fun to discharge an old fire extinguisher in the parking lot.) So you know…we … read more.

Tour Inside Our Body

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Jen Thomsen shared a book about our bodies and then we got to listen to our hearts! Wow, our bodies are loud!

Then we exercised…

and listened to our hearts again…

They beat faster!

September 2019

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THANKS

Thanks to everyone for providing a fun summer of “travel” for our students. Our “tours” included the Patagonia region of Chile (Susan Adamchak); China (Elke Lorenz); printmaking (Katie Kingery-Page and Lindsay Smith); Eukaryotic Cells (Taryn Cipra); Snack Chip ChampionChip (Sandy Nelson); our imagination (Cathy Hedge); … read more.

Tour up Mount Whitney

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Clara and Mark Mayfield took us on a tour up Mount Whitney. We watched a video and looked at pictures while we snacked on homemade trail mix.  

Making trail mix.
Lots of pictures.
Taking a virtual hike.
Answering questions.

 

Tour of our own Creativity

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Cathy taught us a wonderful mantra for creative thinking: “If I don’t make it, it might never exist!”

We did several creativity flexing exercises

and then… we created our own worlds! Here are some of our drawings…

August 2019

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WORLD TRAVELERS
August 4  Magical Mystery Tour with Sandy Nelson
August 11 Tour up Mount Whitney with Clara and Mark Mayfield
August 18 Tour inside our bodies with Jennifer Thomsen
August 25 Tour of The Gambia with Lily Colburn
Come join the fun!

3RD SUNDAY TEEN LUNCH

Teen Lunch starts up … read more.

ChampionChip

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Here are the chips and the final results of our ChampionChip Tournament. Thanks to all for your participation! 

 

Tour of the Eukaryotic Cell

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Taryn had us coloring, viewing a video, and squishing up blueberries so we could extract blueberry DNA. It worked! Handy vials were given to everyone so we could carry around our blueberry DNA in our pockets.

Tour of Print Making

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Katie, Lindsay, and Ruby took us on a glorious tour of print making. After assembling our paint pallet (seen in the picture below), we ventured outside to find some items with interesting textures so we could make our prints.