The Bryn Mawr Spirit

Spirit Day may have come and gone, but the girls' excitement about learning makes them lively participants in classes every day. In math we are having fun making bar graphs and line plots. Today the girls in my math group discovered what a line plot is by standing in a line behind a card marked with her number of siblings. We discovered that three members of the class are only children, two have three siblings each, the greatest number of classmates have one sibling, and no one has either two or four siblings.

In social studies the girls made a map of ancient Egypt yesterday and read about archaeologist Howard Carter's search in 1922 for King Tutankhamen's tomb. After social studies, several girls in Tech class used Google Earth to find the Valley of the Kings where Howard Carter finally discovered King Tut's tomb while others used the app Make a Mosaic to create original designs. Here are two, one of Mt. Vesuvius erupting and the other of King Tut's golden mummy mask, that illustrate how a third grader has used an ancient art form in a 21st century application to depict historic "landmarks."

                                                       Mt. Vesuvius Erupting

                               

                                          Tutankhamen's Mummy Mask