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12.09.11
We wish, once again, to share this photo of our Thanksgiving Community Board. It reflected what the members of our community are thankful for. Inspired by an idea from Andria Quintero, this chart hung in the front stairwell of the school building in the days leading up to the holiday. A new chart, focusing on the winter holidays, currently hangs in its place. Erratum Please note the following corrections to Caedmon's 2010-2011 Annual Report: Weekly Newsletter 1. Important Announcement Regarding Upcoming Holiday Show 2. Registration Currently Being Accepted for Winter Bridge Camp 3. William Doyle, Alum and Son of Founder Marilou Doyle, Publishes New Book Regular Notes 1. Important Announcement Regarding Upcoming Holiday Show Dear Caedmon Families, Please note the following two changes for December: 1. This years’ holiday concert will take place at Wallace Hall, 980 Park Ave., New York, NY, 10028. Arrival and dismissal for all elementary children (Kindergarten through grade 5) on December 16th will take place at Wallace Hall. The performance will begin at 9:00AM and dismissal will directly follow at 10:00AM as per our original calendar. Please take an opportunity to view photos of the hall here: http:// www.stignatiusloyola.org/index.php/gallery/category/C2/12.09.11 1. Important Announcement Regarding Upcoming Holiday Show 2. School will be closed for Early Program and Beginner children on December 16th. Please feel welcome to bring your Early Program or Beginner child to the performance. These changes have been made as a result of careful consideration by the Administration in conjunction with the Board of Trustees and the Church of St. Monica. Indeed there are several reasons that precipitated this change, and I will follow up in a future communication with further information as to why this change had to be made. In the interim, please mark your calendars with these important schedule changes. Please also note that, at the beginning of next week, the school will communicate further details regarding arrival and dismissal on this day. Yours, 2. Registration Currently Being Accepted for Winter Bridge Camp Registration is now being accepted for Winter Bridge Camp. Sessions are December 19th - 23rd and 26th - 30th. Full day camp is 8:30 - 3:30 each day. AM and PM snack is provided but lunch will need to be brought from home. Activities include Gym, SocRoc, Dance, Art, Cooking, Yoga and Courtyard. Open to all full day Caedmon students. $100/day or $400/week. Contact Andrew Kagan (kagan@caedmonschool.org) to register or for more information. 3. William Doyle, Alum and Son of Founder Marilou Doyle, Publishes New Book William Doyle, Caedmon alumnus and son of founder Marilou Doyle, has published a new book entitled A Soldier's Dream. Following, please find reviews and related links regarding Mr. Doyle's exciting news: "Once you’ve read the astonishing story of Capt. Patriquin’s service, you’ll be grasping for superlatives." Washington Post "One of the most fascinating stories to come out of the Iraq war." Fox News "The inspiring story of one soldier in Iraq in 2006 determined to make peace with warring tribal factions." Kirkus Reviews "A truly inspirational story about an American soldier who epitomized our country's values." The Huffington Post “This is a phenomenal book. Staggering.” Neil Cavuto, Fox News "The account of how Capt. Patriquin and a Sunni sheik helped thwart the insurgency in Iraq's Anbar province provides gripping insight into how, even amid modern warfare, strong wills can affect the course of history...That's the compelling story of A Soldier's Dream by veteran journalist William Doyle, a carefully reported and briskly written account." LA Times A Soldier's Dream in the news: Curriculum Notes • LANGUAGE ARTS: In handwriting work students learned letters m, l, and h. The class also read many stories about different holiday traditions, and made text-to-self connections. Students learned a poem called “Holidays Around the World,” and recited it at the holiday assembly: Boys and girls around the world/Will celebrate this year/The special holiday customs/Their families hold so dear. Students also wrote what they learned about different holidays and talked about it at the assembly. • MATH: Students continued their work with patterns by looking at simple constructions of patterns and finding patterns within the environment. The class was introduced to the Estimation Station; students looked at a container of similar objects and worked on making a reasonable guess, or estimation, of how many objects it contained. Students then worked with base 10 materials to count the objects, exchanging units for tens, tens for hundreds, and so on. The class also enjoyed playing the dreidel game. • SOCIAL STUDIES: The class worked on projects based on the various holidays taking place this time of year. Students made “Holidays Around the World” suitcases to collect their various projects for Hanukkah, Christmas, St. Lucia, and Kwanzaa. Students in Mrs. Trinkle/Ms. Dudgeon’s class enjoyed a special treat: Max’s parents, Ms. Arvidsson and Mr. Van Bouwel, came in to talk about St. Lucia, a Swedish holiday falling on December 13th every year that begins the Christmas season. They wore traditional clothing, lit candles to symbolize the light that is an important part of the holiday, sang a song of Santa Lucia, and shared traditional treats––ginger snap cookies and Lussekatter (sweet, saffron flavored buns). • ART: Students explored and documented the art studio. • COMPUTER: Students chose between working with KidPix or Read, Write & Type. • MUSIC: The class rehearsed for the holiday show, composed rhythm chants in 4/4 meter, and had a jolly instrument jam to “Sleigh Ride.” • SCIENCE: The class learned about the three different types of rocks that form the crust of our Earth: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Students had the opportunity to examine a cross section Earth model depicting the Earth’s crust, mantle, and outer and inner core. They also drew with graphite in its natural form and matched polished and unpolished rocks. • SPANISH: In honor of the holiday season, the class relearned Los Peces en el Rio, an ancient traditional Spanish villancico (Christmas song). Students love this tune (available on YouTube) delightfully produced by one of Spain’s most popular singers, Shaila Durcal. The class can be heard exclaiming “Shaila, Sr. Everett, Shaila!” everytime their teacher enters the room. • YOGA: The class continued its celebration of the December holidays by creating a sacred holiday peace circle. Students learned that all the holidays can be celebrated with a yoga pose and a symbol gracefully put in the sacred circle. For Christmas, they practiced a tree pose and used the symbol of a pine cone; for Hanukkah, warrior pose and a dreidel; for Kwanza, an elephant pose and a red, green, black, or yellow ball. The sacred circle ends with the lighting of a candle to honor all the holidays during the month of December. • LANGUAGE ARTS: The class practiced working with Venn Diagrams, answered written comprehension questions, and learned about nouns and verbs. In honor of the season, students talked about their family holiday celebrations, and enjoyed some holiday read-alouds. • MATH: Students worked on a variety of skills and activities. They practiced taking measurements, doubling numbers, working with the hundreds board, and solving subtraction story problems. The class improved its math vocabulary, practiced adding number strings, working with coin combinations and coin story problems, memorizing math facts, and finding missing addends. • ART: “Art needs science and science needs art.” Students enjoyed the first ever “sci-art” class by observing and discussing the science lab aquarium, and then using mixed media to draw and paint the aquarium. • LIBRARY: Students worked on finishing their computer projects. • MUSIC: The class rehearsed for the holiday show. • PHYSICAL EDUCATION: The class played games and listened to holiday music. • RELIGION: (This refers to the elective religious education that is provided upon request to Catholic families.) Second graders worked on the Hail Mary prayer and heard the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s apparitions to Juan Diego. • YOGA: Everyone was so impressed by the class’s presentation of a beautiful holiday sacred circle to the Early Program and Kindergarten, students were asked to do it again at the Monday elementary assembly. Students demonstrated a variety of postures including: tree, symbolizing Christmas, elephant for Kwanzza, and warrior one for Hanukkah. • The class had a busy final week of the semester. Students participated in a variety of activities including: music rehearsals, a trip to Wallace Hall for their final dress rehearsal, and the amazing feeling of giving to their Potlatches on Thursday. The class was introduced to the wonderful story of Dr. Doolittle during a read aloud by Mrs. Vera, Claudia’s mom, and learned all about St. Lucia Day, the Swedish winter holiday, from Sophia and Mrs. Alden. Students enjoyed a fabulous holiday breakfast brought in by class parents, and finally wrapped up the week and year with their holiday music performance. • ART: Students completed their series of paintings in the style of Jacob Lawrence. • LIBRARY: The class was introduced to a new page with online research links: https://sites.google.com/a/caedmonschool.org/caedlib/home/research-links • MUSIC: The class rehearsed for the holiday show. • PHYSICAL EDUCATION: The class learned the game Capture the Farm Animal, where four teams compete to acquire additional farm animals from neighboring families while securing their own animals. Students demonstrated excellent teamwork, sportsmanship, speed, and strategy as they gave a great effort throughout the activity. • LANGUAGE ARTS: Students continued to enjoy their reading group books (Dear Mr. Henshaw, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Bud, Not Buddy) and class read-aloud (Bridge to Terabithia). Students took a spelling quiz, and in their poetry unit, they listened to an antique vinyl edition of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales on Mr. Jennings’ record player. • MATH: Students practiced using multiplication equations as a crucial strategy for solving division problems with large numbers. They also encountered their first open-ended math problem: a problem in which many correct answers are possible. The class took to this problem with gusto, finding all possible solutions and discussing them as a group. • SOCIAL STUDIES: Students continued writing stories imagining possible reasons for the disappearance of the Anasazi people. The Anasazi are a proto-Native American group who lived in cliff dwellings in the Southwestern United States. • ART: Students completed their series of paintings in the style of Jacob Lawrence. • LATIN: Students worked on lesson five of their workbook, continued learning about the Roman emperors from Augustus to Domitian, and were introduced to the Greek alphabet. One section of the class began an ongoing unit on the Indo-European language family––a massive group of languages including Latin, Greek and English, that are all descended from a common ancestor, the reconstructed language Proto-Indo-European. • LIBRARY: The class was introduced to a new page with online research links: https://sites.google.com/a/caedmonschool.org/caedlib/home/research-links • MUSIC: The class rehearsed for the holiday show. • PHYSICAL EDUCATION: The class learned the game Capture the Farm Animal, where four teams compete to acquire additional farm animals from neighboring families while securing their own animals. Students demonstrated excellent teamwork, sportsmanship, speed, and strategy as they gave a great effort throughout the activity. • RELIGION: (This refers to the elective religious education that is provided upon request to Catholic families.) The class met on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and students heard the story of her apparitions to Juan Diego. • LANGUAGE ARTS: Students finished the semester by completing holiday-inspired grammar projects. They also discussed irony, first by looking at images that are ironic and then by going over the formal definition. Finally, the class read O.Henry’s “Gift of the Magi,” discussing the ways irony functions in the story. • MATH: Students took a quiz on decimals and played Decimal Bingo, a game that stresses addition, subtraction, and comparison of decimals. • SOCIAL STUDIES: Students continued their Mesopotamia presentations on topics including Mesopotamian food, art, games, mathematics, animals, buildings, cities, scribes, astronomers, weapons, and writing. • ART: Students completed their series of paintings in the style of Jacob Lawrence. • LATIN: Students continued work on lesson seven of their workbook. They also moved forward with the unit on Roman writers, reviewing their notes on Livius Andronicus and Lucretius, and commencing a study of Cicero’s and Julius Caesar’s literary output. • LIBRARY: The class was introduced to a new page with online research links: https://sites.google.com/a/caedmonschool.org/caedlib/home/research-links • MUSIC: The class rehearsed for the holiday show. A Poem by Richard Peck I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; |
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