Lower School Photos

Lower School Green Team students enjoyed a video presentation of Dragons Love Tacos by the Children's Theatre of Cincinnati. Then they made their own "fire-breathing" dragons (and tacos) from construction paper and crepe paper streamers.

Lower School Green Team students learned about nocturnal animals in an exciting way.  With lights off in the library, Media Specialist Amanda Forbes read by flashlight from a book titled After Dark: Poems about Nocturnal Animals by David L. Harrison.  The students located pictures of the animals in the poems by flashlight. Then Ms. Forbes led the students through creating acrostic poems about some of the animals in the book, and each student chose an animal about which to write their own acrostic poem.

The Cincinnati Museum Center brought to Lower School students a hands-on experience exploring the history of transportation in Cincinnati. Students simulated moving goods by mule-powered canal boat and used working models of the five inclines that moved Cincinnatians to neighborhoods on higher ground in the late 19th century. They learned about the era of streetcars, the reasons Cincinnati's subway system was never realized, and the factors that drove changes in transportation systems across the decades.

Lower School students learn to play Ultimate Frisbee in this after-school program led by Instructional Assistant Madison Wilker and Gus Misleh.

From a remote location in the conference room, Student Council officers joined with Mrs. Kessen's Lower School Green class to have some fun. The officers led the students in games of bingo and Simon Says.

Science Club participants created colorful slime from a mixture of borax and white glue. Activities in previous meetings of the Science Club included making crayon leaf prints, creating ferromagnetic liquids and learning about endangered species while making polar bears from shaving cream foam.

Lower School math classes learned about fractions by calculating the portion of each color in a bag of M&Ms.

Lower School Blue and Gray Team students dissected owl pellets in science classes.