Art_Baseline Self-Portraits

The girls drew a baseline self-portrait showing what they see in the mirror. Observation skills will be a major theme this year in 5th grade art. They will learn ways to switch to R-Mode (the right side of the brain) and develop their observational skills using different drawing strategies.  

We are off to a great start!!

What is the Most Boring Landform?

PLAIN!

Sorry, just a little geography humor to brighten up this rainy Monday.  All horrible puns aside, the girls are hard at work thoughtfully brainstorming ideas for their History Landform Project.  Each group (collaboration opportunity, woohoo!!!) will design and create a three dimensional map that illustrates some of the landforms that we have studied in class. 

Music: Hand Clapping Game and Rhythm Review

The girls learned a complicated hand-clapping song and game from Jamaica.  They loved this challenge!

Next, they created 16 beat rhythms based on the words of various types and breeds of horses,




And played them on a drum!

Summer Reading for Rising Fifth Graders

Here is a link to summer reading information:

http://www.brynmawrschool.org/Page/Academics/Lower-School/Peggy-Bessent-Library/Fifth-Grade-Summer-Reading

Happy Summer!

French: Le Drame et les Dessins

Each week, the girls have fun acting out scenes from our PB3 et Coco le Clown reader. Below, you can see a tightrope walking acrobate, a lovestruck clown offering her des fleurs, and un petit extraterrestre remarking, "Hum ! C'est difficile !"

The girls are also studying clothing vocabulary from their books. This week, they became fashion designers. They created outfits and then labeled all of les vêtements and les couleurs using the app, Pic Collage. Their designs were très chic !

Tinker and Techxploration

The girls enjoyed the Lower School Tinker and Techxploration Fair on April 18th.  The girls had an opportunity to explore and tinker with 10 of the latest technology innovations and gadgets. 

 
The Beam is an experimental telepresence robot. It lets you move around and talk to people, even when you’re not with them in person. The Beam uses WiFi, cameras and sensors to move around.

Google Cardboard is a virtual reality set of glasses. What’s virtual reality? It’s a way to experience something through our computers that doesn’t really exist.
    
You can connect the MaKey MaKey to a computer and then to just about anything.

  
Makeup Genius uses augmented reality code to put makeup on your face!

 

Robot turtles is a super fun game that will also teach you how to think like a computer scientist.
  
Drones are machines that fly themselves.
   
Alexa is an artificially intelligent bot that you can have a conversation with.

  

Leap Motion allows you to control a computer through motion rather than a keyboard or mouse, that’s called a “gestural interface.”

   
The Spirograph was created by a mathematician in the late 1800s. He used it to calculate the area of curves. But a British engineer soon realized that the Spirograph could also be used to create really pretty drawings.