Pictured above: Students designed and built their own trebuchet to launch objects in the woods and the courtyard.
Middle School school students have just wrapped up a season of electives. The choices are a combination of student interests and teacher passions. It is an exciting process to see what teachers want to offer and what students are interested in delving into more.
The recent offerings ranged:
Theatre Games and Improv
Narrative Poetry
Making a Trebuchet
Nature Art
Moving Mindfully
Creating Leather Wallets
Learning to Draw Like Picasso
Helping in the Preschool Helpers
Here's a glimpse into electives this Fall...
Each student in the Narrative Poetry elective spent time working on a poem, learned the process of submitting work to a publication, and then on the last day of their elective each student submitted their work. Below is one student’s poem that he submitted to The New Yorker.
Students followed the curriculum that Picasso used to learn how to draw to develop their own artistic skills.
Students tending to a fire while building a bench and a bookshelf outdoors.
Students cut leather, used special tools to create patterns, and sewed their own leather wallets.
Seventh-grade students spent time in the preschool assisting with projects and learning from FSP's preschool team about child development.
Students learned to propagate plant clippings and created small potted plants to distribute to homebound elders through Meals on Wheels.
