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Afghan Feast for Grandparent’s and Special Friend’s Day!
On Friday we had a wonderful feast of Afghan meatballs, chicken and beef kabobs, rice, nan, and rote (sweet pastry). Students and special friends acted as food critics and rated each dish. The chicken and rice rated quite high, although reviews were mixed.
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under Storyline, Special Events, CSS.
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Storyline recap…
This past week students had long discussions about imprisonment…What are the things, ideas, places, and events that imprison you and what are those things that set you free? They created wonderful self-portraits in a surrealist style to represent some of those ideas.
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under Storyline.
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Homework and Today’s special events!
Journal 6 has been assigned, and is due on Tuesday for the seventh graders and on Wednesday for the sixth graders.
Today we met with our Kindergarten buddies in Jules and Deb’s room. We met and spent time getting to know each other today. We are looking forward to reading, doing art, writing, and […]
Posted: October 5th, 2007 under Storyline, Special Events, Homework, CSS.
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Music creates artistic emotions!
Seventh grade…
After reading a very emotional section, and writing a journal entry about the character’s thoughts, feelings, and ideas, students created some abstract art. I played six traditional Afghan pieces of music, and using a variety of mediums (oil pastels, watercolors, and tempera paint) students let the emotion of the music come through their […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2007 under Storyline, CSS.
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