Curriculum Highlights: Weaving Community in Lower School Art
The Curriculum Highlights series shines a light on the important and dynamic skill building that is happening in Live Oak classrooms every day. These highlights are prepared by Live Oak faculty and offer a glimpse into a notable activity, project, or unit that prepares students for interdisciplinary learning and agency beyond the classroom. This week we highlight the interwoven lines project that fourth graders completed in their art class that draws inspiration from a local artist.
Live Oak’s Lower School Music Festival concerts are coming up! Please mark your calendars and plan to attend in person in the Grand Hall if you’re able, or virtually. As we have in year’s past, we are planning to livestream both concerts. We will share links prior to the shows. Read more about the shows below.
This week is Live Oak's annual Week of Service. Over the course of the week we’ll be hearing from different changemakers, classes will be working on projects both on and off campus, students will be learning more about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other changemakers both present and past, and we will close the week with a whole-school sing-along of traditional civil rights and social justice songs. Read more below to see how the various grade levels will be engaging in Week of Service this year.
Curriculum Highlights: Pet House Design in Eighth Grade Math
Kathryn Kundrot, Middle School Math Teacher
The Curriculum Highlights series shines a light on the important and dynamic skill building that is happening in Live Oak classrooms every day. These highlights are prepared by Live Oak faculty and offer a glimpse into a notable activity, project, or unit that prepares students for interdisciplinary learning and agency beyond the classroom. This week we highlight the math concepts behind the pet house design project that eighth graders engaged in before Winter Break.
The hallways are buzzing again, the classrooms are active, the learning spaces around campus are filled with conversation and laughter: school is back. As our school community reacclimates to its routines after the two-week break, our middle school faculty are devoting some intentional time dedicated to re-establishing norms and reinforcing the expectations that support the important teaching and learning that happens on a daily basis at Live Oak. Much like our counterparts in lower school, one area of focus in middle school has been around helping students enter into the new year by building on the successes of the previous semester, while helping frame their work and actions through the lens of maximizing their positive impact on their classrooms and the broader school culture and climate.
This coming Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday which has been designated by Congress as a National Day of Service. You may have heard about making it “a day on, not a day off,” and if you’ve been waiting for the right moment, this is it! Read below to see ways to get involved and/or use the holiday as an opportunity to learn.
SPEAK presents best-selling author and journalist Mónica Guzmán, virtually hosted by Live Oak School at 7pm on Wednesday, February 4. Registration is now open. Join us for a talk with Mónica Guzmán and explore how you can strengthen family connections through curiosity during tough conversations. Read more about Mónica below.
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