EMS Scholastic Kids Reporter

Recent published work from EMS eighth grader and Scholastic Kids reporter, Viveca Riley. Read book report and interview here. You can review all of Viveca's work as a Scholastic Kids reporter by clicking here.

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4th Graders Auditioning for Carnegie Hall

Our fourth graders submitted these two videos to Carnegie Hall last week. Our assignment was to invent new lyrics for the Aaron Copland classic, "I Bought Me a Cat." If we are chosen, a film crew will be sent to video our class, and our school's video will be presented onscreen at the Carnegie Hall LinkUP! concert in May 2011. In a few weeks, we are also auditioning to be the representative school onstage at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's. EMS has been onstage for the last 8 years! And we are known as a school with enthusiastic, well-prepared students with high standards and lots of musicality.

Here's an extra video; these fourth graders were practicing for the Talent Show.

(Post: Ms. White)

Spanish Lessons

The first grade students are retelling the story of Goldie Locks And The Three Bears after learning "family" vocabulary. As well, the first graders are working on puzzels that review "community helpers" vocabulary.

Our third graders have recently learned the highlights of the Aztec Civilization. Our special guest, Mrs. Lowry, came to the class to talk to the students about the story of el chocolatl and its connection to the Aztecs and the Spanish Conquistadors. The students also learned about the cacao seeds and all the other original ingredients used to make their chocolatl. The students were also able to make their own chocolatl: both the ancient Aztec kind as well as the chocolate we know today.

The fourth graders have recently studied the Maya civilization. Again, Mrs. Lowry came to talk to the students about the main sources of food for the Mayas. The students where delighted to make and eat guacamole. "Delicioso!" That's what they say!!

(Post: Srta. Gonzalez)

1st Grade: 100 days of school

Yesterday, the first grade celebrated the 100th day of school! They worked hard on individual posters by creatively arranging 100 items into equal groups. They presented their posters during math time. (Post: Ms. Cozza)

Eating by Design...

Children showing off their chocolate creations in Eating By Design, an EMS After School Adventures class. (Post: Ms. Smithline)

First Grade visit to Whole Foods

Our first graders visited Whole Foods as part of their Neighborhood and Community study. They visited the store's various departments, including produce, meat, fish, bulk, cheese, bakery, and prepared foods. They learned a lot about nutritious foods and how the many people work together to provide the items we buy in a grocery store. (Post: Ms. Lowell)

Happy 100th Day from Chilton House

The Kindergarten children in C2 have been getting ready for the 100th day of school! We have been talking about and practicing different ways to count to 100. Children were introduced to skip counting by tens, fives and twos. Students then practiced the pattern of skip counting with their bodies, jumping from one to twenty in different ways! (Post: Ms. Goldstein)

More on the Academic Program at Elisabeth Morrow.

Indoor Skating

On days with cold and wet weather, we needed to be creative in finding ways to keep our little three-year-old class busy and moving. Last week we made "ice skates" out of cardboard and then laminated them so that the children could skate up and down the hallway. It was a lot of fun but not as easy as it appears to be! As the weather gets warmer we will definitely head up to the playground and really run around! (Post: Ms. Eickelberg)

Apple Tree Song Page

I received an e-mail yesterday from an alumna, class of 1994, who suggested it would be a nice touch for all alums to have a web page that features our beautiful Apple Tree Song. I couldn't agree more...

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As I get better quality video and audio, I will add it to this page.

~Evan Brown, Communications/Alumni