Lower Elementary Pictures - Fall 2013

Here are some pictures from various moments during Fall of 2013 in the Lower El.

The children are working with Debbie on creating props and costumes
for their upcoming play!

Recent Random Pictures

Here are a few pictures of recent happenings at RiverRun.

Art and Music

 

Liam's mom, Juliana, doing her regular Sign Language with the class.
Thank you, Juliana!

Kalia's grandmother, Pamala, made us a mat for our mathematical golden bead chains. Here is a picture of a couple of the kids using it. Thank you, Pamala!

Landforms

The first week of school, the students jumped right into their works, getting started with hands-on learning about landforms.

Berkshire Museum Field Trip

On Friday, May 27th, RiverRun families took a field trip to the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass.  There they continued their year-long studies of the Americas with two educator-led programs - Native Mammals and Native Peoples.

Museum-educator Craig talks about Native Mammals with the younger children

while museum-educator Sarah talks about Native Peoples with the older children.

Everyone enjoyed a community lunch together

and then the groups switched.

Sarah worked with the younger children

while Craig worked with the older ones.

Then the children had free time to explore the museum on their own.

Here are Kya and Sean Gabriel enjoying the horseshoe crabs.

Community Visitor - Jewelry Making

On April 7th, artist Kristen Olivo came to RiverRun to teach us about jewelry making.  She discussed the inspiration for artwork and how we can use pictures and all that we see around us to get ideas for our creations.

Then Kristen showed us how to select and organize our beads to make a necklace - using our picture for inspiration.

 There were many beads to choose from.

Laying out a design.

Stringing the beads.

Finished!