Seabury Gets SASSI

The entire lower school at Seabury collaborated 

and came up with an amazing 

Seabury on Stage Reader's Theater production called

Duh, duh, duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

The Case of the SASSI Mystery

(Secret Association of Spy Schools.)

The task: to solve the mystery of the missing teachers!

The story was written by the kids.

This first grader (who is an amazing reader) was one of the narrators.

"Hello, ladies, gentlemen, children and pets of all shapes and sizes.  Good evening and welcome to this installment of the Seabury On Stage Reader's Theater." 

Everyone worked together to get to the microphones at the right time 

and to manage the scripts.

This first grader read his lines loud and clearly, 

"This place would fall apart if it weren't for Mr. Darby!" 

The play was full of word plays. 

The name Darby is a play on our faithful and fearless aide's name, Brad.

Brad backwards spells Darby. The kids added the y to make it sound better.

This first grader was cast as Mrs. BQ (Be Quiet), the Librarian.

It was truly amazing how quiet the kids were 

as they were all on the stage the entire time!

It's time for a commercial break:

♫ "Don't go away, just sit and stay, we'll be right back for you today!" ♫

*DING*

One of the commercials:

♫ Pop, pop, fizz, fizz, 

Oh, what a relief it is! ♫

The sound effect creators performed a variety of sounds using a myriad of items. 

Heavy doors opening and clanging shut, skidding tires, portals taking off and landing, fake laughs, walking on gravel, crickets, chairs falling, keys rattling...

Each part was important:

Time to dream: ringing the chimes 

Duh, duh, duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

The mystery has been solved! 

The key with the engraving "3-D" led to the...

Duh, duh, duuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Deep Dark Dungeon (get it? Three D's?)

(The Deep Dark Dungeon is a storage room

 that students aren't allowed in at our school. 

There are a lot of legends concerning this mysterious place.)

And in the DDD were all the missing teachers!!

Whodunit?!

Why, it was Mr. Elbert, of course!

Treble spelled backwards!

(Get it???)

[Sounds of laughter]

We 💗 to Read❣

We celebrated reading, friends, and Dr. Seuss on Read Across America Day. 

A fun, enriching time was had by all❣

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(And of course we wore our pajamas❣)

💗

Vitruvian Navigators: Learning About Proportions, Leonardo Style

Question of the Week: What does "proportion" mean?

Starting with a question and discovering the answer through hands-on (and bodies-on!) activities, the Navigators came up with a good answer. 

This is what inquiry learning looks like!

The question is asked by the students 

and the students discover the answer/answers.

What do you notice when you measure your height and your arm span?

Let's check it out.

They are about the same!

What do you notice when you measure from your hair line to your chin and compare that measurement to your body height?

Our body height is about 5-6 head lengths.

We look at this chart of body proportions and continue to

ponder what the word proportion means.

(We also went on a rabbit trail talking about why our heads 

are so big in comparison to our bodies when we are a baby.)

 

Leonardo, about 500 years ago, also noticed the proportions of the human body.

He drew a picture and wrote about it (backwards, of course), 

in one of his many notebooks.

So, we tried it, too! 

Enjoy the following Vitruvian Navigators.

Lots of pics, lots of work, lots of fun.

And an answer to the question...

Darth Vader

Gingerbread Person

A panda

 

Now for the light bulb moment we've been waiting for:

According to one first grade Navigator, the answer to the question "What does proportion mean?" is this:

 Proportion is when you compare equal parts or portions to other parts or portions. It's kinda like a fraction. One/fifth of my body is my head. It takes 5 heads to make my body.

We did lots of hard work, worked well together, made some great discoveries about math, made wonderful works of art, and learned a new word. Plus we had fun in the process.

Hey, that reminds us of another great 

inventor/scientist/would've-been-an-epic-Seabury student, 

Thomas Edison! Here's what he had to say about his work:

First grade in a nut-shell 

Clueless in 2018: First Graders Try Using a Rotary Phone

This rotary phone was the center of attraction in our classroom one morning. What fun we had trying to figure it out. Most of them don't have a landline phone, only a couple of them know their mom's cell phone number,  and no one knows their home addresses. Just dial 0 for help, right? Times have changed!