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Students present the Solar System

Posted on 2022-05-30 by Vince Gutschick

Spring semester 2022. Students in grades 3-8 each created their own books about the Solar System – our Sun, Moon, and planets.  Distilling their learning over the semester, they illustrated each celestial body and wrote many telling facts about each, in fine cursive.

Walking the Solar System

Posted on 2019-12-212019-12-21 by Vince Gutschick

20 December 2019: pacing off the distances to the planets.   Students joined teacher and Head of School Dr. Lou Ellen Kay to walk down Avenida de Mesilla, placing scale models of the Sun and the planets at appropriately scaled distances.  Starting from the Sun, represented as a paper plate 8” in diameter, they walked 10 […]