Liz's Class Notes

Our residency at The Watermill Center with Philippe Cheng concluded with our in-process exhibition last week. Our living self-portaits inspired by Andy Warhol's experimental films were on display as was our abstract map of our connections to places in our extended family histories.

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Lucy's Class Notes

Lucy’s group went to the Southampton African American Museum twice this month. The students started their first day with a digital tapestry. Using a visual and auditory device was the perfect way to get the students comfortable with the space because it allowed them to work at their own pace and, as my students put it, “feel like you were taken back into the historical time.”

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Amy's Class Notes

Amy's class naturalists are hard at work studying flora and fauna for this year's in-depth project! Each child had the opportunity to choose both a plant and an animal to study, with the only requirement being something that they are personally interested in researching.

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Julie’s Class Notes

The advent of our first real snowfall has made this the perfect time to settle in with a good book as part of a book club. Students have started reading and discussing their books, paying close attention to the author’s craft in developing characters, and plot.

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