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This week, we celebrated Halloween a little early with our Annual Daddy & Me Pumpkin Carving Event in ECDC! Our little Knights had a spooktacular time crafting and carving dreadfully delightful pumpkins with daddies, grandpas, uncles, and loved ones in the Outdoor Classroom. The morning air was filled with laughter and glitter as the little Knights worked with their loved ones to create their one-of-a-kind pumpkin masterpiece.
Over the last few weeks, our Preschool Knights in Mrs. Olvera's class have been observing and learning about butterflies — from caterpillars to chrysalises to cocoons — and finally watching and encouraging them as they fluttered away during their butterfly release this week!
Our ECDC garden is designed to attract butterflies, so the students will enjoy seeing their butterfly friends flutter about the garden. What a beautiful celebration of new life and the wonder of God's creation!
Lower School News
This week, St. Anne School Librarian, Mrs. Williams, hosted Grade 3 and 4 students for a "Starbooks Cafe” Book Tasting. For this special event, students explored and "tasted" books of different genres, styles, and sizes in a restaurant-like setting. Students picked three books to rate based on what they learned by exploring the front and back covers and thumbing through the book’s contents. They then filled out a "menu" for each book, listing what they liked about it and whether they would read it. Book tastings are a fun way to encourage students to get out of their literary comfort zones and engage with new genres, authors, and styles.
As part of their sensory system lessons, Kindergarten students began last week with a Five Senses Walk around campus and an apple-tasting activity.
This week, kindergarten students took to the Science Lab for an in-depth, cross-curricular study of apples. Students completed an apple investigation, exploring the physical properties of apples–their weight, size, and whether they would sink or float. As part of their social studies curriculum, the kindergarten classes have been studying the life and history of Johnny Appleseed. The apple study culminated on Thursday when students donned their personalized chef’s hats to make applesauce together. The students took turns experiencing the ingredients with their senses and helped their teacher mix the ingredients for the applesauce. The kindergarten classrooms were filled with the warm and sweet aroma of apples as the sauce cooked throughout the day. In the afternoon, students tasted their applesauce together and discussed how it tasted and whether they liked it better than apple juice.
Middle School News
Before the popularization of cameras, cyanotype was used as a photographic printing process. Grade 8 photography students learned about this cyanotype, which uses ultraviolet light from the sun and a special iron solution to change the color pigments in the paper.
Students also learned about the photographer, Man Ray, and his "rayographs," or abstract photographs created by placing objects directly on light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light. To bring their learning to life, students created their own "rayographs" by arranging objects from their backpacks and the art room and exposing them to direct and indirect sunlight using photosensitive cyanotype paper.
In honor of the recent canonization of Saint Carlo Acutis, Grade 7 religion students studied the life and legacy of this newly canonized patron saint of the internet. The middle schoolers learned about his dedication to and involvement in the Catholic Church, as well as the miracles attributed to Saint Carlo’s intercession.
Students reflected on Saint Carlo’s inspiring words and worked in groups to create posters with artwork that demonstrated the imagery that each quote evokes.
May Saint Carlo’s devotion to Christ inspire and guide us all. Saint Carlo, pray for us.
