Month: March 2022

Connections and creativity

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Celebrating and Communicating

We celebrated Black History Month across the school making connections to our past, present and future and to our curriculum. We expressed ourselves and our identities with creativity.

4th Grade celebrated their research with a Black History Museum featuring African Americans from the past and present as students looked forward to their future.
Second graders presented information in character. We learned about Barack and Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou and Loretta Scott King. They are creative communicators.
We welcomed family and friends to the Grade Four Wax Museum.
Connections to identity and connections between these creative and informative presentations.
Everyone learned so much from these posters and presenters.
Second grade research on African American History. Communicating through research writing.
Communicating and celebrating Black History in Grade One with so much creativity.
More creativity, communication and celebration with these Grade 3 Black History Projects.

LIVING THE LEARNER PROFILE

We celebrated risk-takers in February.

CIS READS

Reading every day is really important to everyone at CIS. We celebrated our love of reading on Read Across America day.

CEO Eric Gordon joined us and read one of our fifth grade students published book to soon of our classes.
We are always reading. Peace – Love – Reading!
Book choices in MYP.

MYP connections and creativity

Designing and creating with a purpose.
Ready for Model UN.
Mrs. Weber and these MYP researchers and communicators spent many hours preparing and they were did a fantastic job.

Communicating, celebrating and connecting through action

Service and action is an important part of everything we do. Grade 8 students are preparing for Community Project. Some Grade 5 planners have created their own tutoring service.
Creativity in Kindergarten as they celebrated 100 Days of school.
Celebrating our caring community.
Exercising with the CAVS and celebrating “Twosday.”
Connecting with Cards in Grade One. These communicators are receiving notes from around the world and learning about different people and places.

More Connections

We were fortunate enough host a group of students and teachers from Wales. Thanks to SOLE for making this great connection for us. Students and teachers spent time in classes learning together and sharing culture with each other.

Fun in the cafe with some stories and traditions from Wales.
Creating and connecting through stories in Grade Four.
Celebrating culture through cooking- making Welsh cakes in the kitchen.
Connecting at school and around the city.
Our guests from Wales were able to experience the city and visit the Mayor’s office.
Communicating in the cafe.

Research in Kindergarten

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