Monthly Archives: October 2016

Spanish 1 – Sugar Skulls in 3D

Spanish 1 students have just started a project based around the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. One important aspect of this festival is creating and decorating calaveras (sugar skulls), which for this project we did using our new … Continue reading

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3D Printer Update

Last year, thanks to a generous parent donation, the school was able to purchase a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer to be housed in the old Math Office. This machine allows us to print physical recreations of 3D models designed and drawn using software tools like … Continue reading

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French V – Hebron En Automne

French V students read L’Automne by Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869). In this beautiful poem, the poet compares the loveliness and sweet sadness of autumn to the twilight of his own life. One particularly moving stanza includes the lines, “I would … Continue reading

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World Religions – Comic Life Presentations

In World Religions, we wrapped our section on Hinduism up with a week long project on Hindu gods.  The class was split into three groups; each group then spent two days together in the library learning how to use online … Continue reading

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Constitutional Foundations – Thanksgiving Comic Life

The main goal of the US History Comic Life project was to allow the students to express their understanding of the relationship between the Wampanoag people and the Puritan settlers from the first contact through the devastating impacts of King Philip’s War. … Continue reading

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