Spring At LFS
- 2. April and May are busy months at Lansdowne Friends School. The following slides will give you an idea of the many exciting goings on.
- 3. Under the Sea, the 2007-08 Silent and Live Auction
- 6. 4/5/6 Poetry Reading at The Regency Cafe
- 7. “ Our poetry reading at The Regency Café was a great celebration of student writing. Students shared poems they wrote and poetry that they found along the way as we studied this form of writing.”
- 8. “ On the one hand the rules that govern various poetry forms serve to give students boundaries that boost their confidence as writers.”
- 9. “ On the other hand, the required economy of words and exposure of feelings can prove challenging for some writers.”
- 10. The May Fair tradition continues!
- 11. Tr. Andrea teaches hula dancing at the May Fair a.k.a. Lei Day.
- 12. Parents reunite, relax, and work together.
- 13. We are treated to the sounds of the Barbone Street Jazz Band! (Yes, that’s Miko’s grandfather on trumpet.
- 14. Alumni visit LFS at the May Fair.
- 15. A spring walk on campus
- 17. Kindergarten students paint scenery for three Leo Leonni skits that they will perform at Gathering.
- 19. Six Crows
- 20. Frederick
- 21. It’s Mine
- 22. It is May and we’re working in the gardens. A Three Sisters garden and a dyeing garden are planned and planted.
- 23. Tr. Alison’s 3 rd grade class organized a Water Symposium ~ our second year of hosting a day of Inquiry for the LFS community and the wider community with Bryn Mawr College’s Center for Science in Society.
- 24. Alison Levie, a third grade teacher at Lansdowne, coordinated the program and contributed experiences on water and culture and water and landscapes. Al Gaspar, science coordinator at Lansdowne, Susie Hollenbach, first/second grade teacher, and Mingh Whitfield, pre-kindergarten teacher at Lansdowne, led participants through experiences on forms of water developed with colleagues at Bryn Mawr. Susan Stone, Head of Lansdowne Friends, led participants through experiences related to oil and birds, developed with Alison Levie.
- 25. Paul Grobstein, Eleanor Bliss Professor of Biology at Bryn Mawr College, and Ian Morton, a Haverford senior majoring in Biology at Bryn Mawr, joined colleagues at Lansdowne Friends School to offer an inquiry day on water for the community. Grobstein and Morton led visitors through experiences on physical and biological properties of water developed in collaboration with Bryn Mawr colleagues, including Peter Brodfuehrer, Professor of Biology, Wil Franklin, Laboratory Coordinator in Biology, Don Barber, Associate Professor of Biology, and Catherine Riihimaki, Keck Postdoc Teaching/Research Fellow in Geology.
- 26. Like last year's Exploring Eggs, the general focus of this year's inquiry day was on giving participants opportunities to make their own observations, to tell stories about them, and to use those stories to motivate new questions and new observations. Participants were encouraged to generate and share their own questions, observations, and stories. "It is really satisfying to see how engaged people of all ages become with science when it is presented as a creative activity in which to become involved rather than a dry body of facts or something one has to just accept as truth", Grobstein said.
- 27. Bryn Mawr College's contributions to the inquiry day were supported by a grant to the College from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and by the College's Center for Science in Society.
- 29. Students attempted to figure out how much water per capita, per day, is used in North America, India, and Ethiopia.
- 31. Students explored conservation of matter, topography…
- 32. Compared salt water and fresh water to oil, and looked at the effect of oil spills on birds.
- 33. Jan and John Haigis, of Lansdowne Monthly Meeting and the Darby Creek Valley Association, led us in singing environmental songs.
- 34. State Senator Anthony Williams presented LFS with a check from the Bravo Foundation, made available through the EITC program of Pennsylvania.
- 35. Teacher Ed and the LFS students made musical magic this year.
- 37. Introducing the LFS Xylocats!
- 38. Students took part in Lansdowne’s Arbor Day celebration, met the Mayor, and loved the Sycamore tree.
- 39. 4/5/6 students created Rube Goldberg inventions.
- 40. Ben’s invention actually turned on the vacuum cleaner!
- 41. Tr. Deb presents Kayla Kahan with a certificate from UNICEF at an all-school Gathering. Kayla initiated and organized a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign at LFS for two years.
- 42. Sixth graders enjoyed a three day trip to Washington D.C.
- 44. The joy of learning continues at Lansdowne Friends School!
- 45. We welcome you.