Spring Sing Rehearsal

Ser y Estar

Sixth graders have been working on understanding the difference between the verbs SER and ESTAR in Spanish. Both verbs mean, "to be" and they can be tricky to use correctly when speaking and writing. Using storytelling to introduce the difference between the two in context made it easier for students. Students also looked at photographs and described what the person was doing, where they were located, what they looked like and where they were from. By describing the photos, students were  learning how to use the proper forms of both verbs. Currently, students are working on a project to demonstrate their mastery of SER and ESTAR. Stay tuned!

Sign-Up for Summer Camps at TCS!

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Register for Summer Camp Now!  

Summertime at TCS is filled with adventure, discovery, and fun! The Children's School offers a variety of award-winning summer camps for students entering Preschool through Eighth Grade. View camp descriptions and register online at www.tcslj.org/summercamp. Camps fill quickly, so register as soon as possible! If you have any questions, please contact Kelly at summer@tcslj.org.

**Tina will be teaching a Dissection Camp during the first session, June 16 - 27 that is available just for middle school students! We'll be dissecting worms, frogs, sharks and more! 

Our Kids are Famous!! (or published artists at least)

Check out the link below! The 6th graders Street Mural Art group piece is featured in the San Diego North County Kids magazine. Look at the lower left hand side of this page of the magazine:

http://issuu.com/kschlicher/docs/may_nck_zack_purdy/23?e=5372827/7687247

FUN NIGHT REMINDER!

FUN NIGHT REMINDERS!

Registration deadline extended toMONDAY, APRIL 28 at NOON: http://bit.ly/FN2014-registration

All tickets must be bought online - no tickets will be available at the door

Teacher Outings, Parent Playdates, and Movie Posters On Sale Online:www.tcslj.org/funnight

First-come, first-served...some outings are sold out already!

Online Auction closes MONDAY, APRIL 28 at NOON:www.biddingforgood.com/funnight

Many items available for sale online only

Fun Night Programs are being sent home Friday afternoon with each family's oldest child

You can also check out the program online at www.tcslj.org/funnight

Volunteers needed next week! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/funnight2014volunteers

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Laura Moberg Lavoie

Great Artists - Day 2

Today, we had the fabulous opportunity to learn from a local street mural artist, Jason Gould. He owns his own studio and art supplies store right here in San Diego (www.visualshopsd.com). He showed us some fantastic stenciling techniques (similar to famous street mural artists like Banksy) using different nozzle tips and gave pointers on how to best free hand using spray paint. Check out some of our practice pieces below!

Museum of Man Field Trip

To wrap up the Egypt unit in Humanities, the sixth graders took a trip to the Museum of Man in Balboa Park. We got to explore not only a fabulous Egpyt exhibit, but also one on the history of man. That's an Egyptian wrap! :)

Pi Day - 3.14

In honor of every mathematicians favorite day, at 1:59pm today (date: 3.14 time:159) the NMY celebrated pi day by having each student memorize and then recite as many digits of pi as they could. As added incentive, any NMY student that memorized more than 100 digits was given an opportunity to "pi" Justin in the face with a whip cream pie. Our top NMY performers were:

Alisar (6th) - 119 

Kendra (7th) - 114

Ryan (6th) - 111
Emma (8th) - 41
Collin (6th) - 41
Holly (6th) - 38
Lilie (6th) - 28
Trinity (6th) - 28
Kira (6th) - 28
Malin (6th) - 19
Shawna (7th) - 17

Great Artists - Day 1

Today we spent our first full day diving into our Great Artist study of street mural art! We learned how Banksy and other street muralists use almost entirely stencils to create their works of art. Laure helped us out in learning how to create stencils that can overlap and create dimension through shading and use of multiple colors. Check out our progress!

Underneath the Surface - Freshwater Ecosystems

After studying the different types of biomes, we've recently been looking at ecosystems and the biotic (living) and abiotic (no living) factors that make it up. Specifically in freshwater ecosystems, we can see how these different factors change and work together to make a thriving ecosystem work! Over the next few weeks, we'll be adding in different biotic facors (plants, fish, snails, etc) and seeing how different abiotic factors we measure change as a result. Some of the abiotic factors we're measuring in our ecosystems are temperature, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, conductivity and pH. This week we added our plants! Can you take a guess which abiotic factor increased significantly as a result??