2WorldWorks


 * 2008-2009, 2009-2010 **

Art Students will look at different art media that go through transformations, or change. They will learn about the "life cycle" of clay, and how it changes from greenware - to leather hard - to bone dry - to biqueware - to glazeware. They also discover the ways in which the addition of paper mache paste to newspaper can completely change its flexibility and form.

Music In music class we will study the way that: People use available materials to make musical instruments (the interaction between the natural world and human societies). People use scientific understanding to create musical instruments. People  use scientific and technological advances to create music, musical instruments, recordings of music, and special effects for music.

PE-The students will focus on systems of the body. Posters of the the skeletal and muscular, digestive, respiratory,circulatory, and nervous systems will be introduced and the idea of what would be the result of part of the system left out.


 * Spanish ** - To support the central idea that changes occur in systems, we will look at the effect that climate changes are having on the bear population in Northern Spain.

**Library** - Students will discuss the profiles //caring// and //reflective// and the attitude //empathy// with the book __Those Shoes__ by Maribeth Boelts and the attitude //creativity// with the story __Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folk-tale__ by Carmen Deedy. The students explain why or how they believe the characters of these stories demonstrate one of those traits.