CATCHING THEM IN THE ACT
A CONSERVATORY PREP NEWS LETTER
Week of May 2- May 6, 2016
The next two weeks the students will be spending a considerable amount of time rehearsing for the end of term Academic Review, finishing up class assignments as well as yearbook. Please make sure your student is on time and in attendance each day.
Wednesday, May 11th at 8:30AM we will be having an assembly focusing on the current challenges nationwide with drug use. Parents are encouraged to attend.
Sunday, May 15th the college advisor will be addressing families. We encourage all grades to attend the session from 9:30 - noon.
HAPPENINGS OF THIS WEEK
Middle School Math
While learning animation through Pixar in the Box, students learn mathematical formulas and tricks involved in making the animation. Students are learning how to make robots with different number of heads, crowds, grass and trees etc. through this medium.
Middle School Science
In Science class, the students are stimulated by learning through games. If they get out, they have to answer questions, so that I get an understanding of how much material students have grasped.
Middle School Ancient Cultures
Do all script-writers have moments like these? The students were introduced to the culture of ancient China through film, art, movement, and poetry. They then delved deeper into finer studies. When interpreting what they learned, the students created pieces of writing in their own voices and original art showing their personal flair. Now, in reflection, we are bringing some authentic Chinese works of art and literature back to the forefront and, feeling quite like experts, are getting ready to present them.
Middle School Keyboarding and Writing
This week we continued our keyboarding and journaling, and we worked on our outlines for our editorial essays. Our next step will be writing our rough drafts.
Middle School English
The students are mastering their scripts, by parsing the grammar; and mastering their delivery, by understanding the punctuation -- one needs to know when to breathe.
Middle School Science Art
We had a blast creating unpredictable designs using dripped paint and then folding the paper, what you call the clam Rorschach test. We then did an overlay with tracing paper and drew the " things" that we saw in the paint designs.
Pre Algebra
This week Pre Algebra is going sticky-note bananas! As their algebraic equations become more complex and filled with even more variables, the students are using sticky notes as a way to keep track of all the terms and different functions they are working on. This will prep them for some quadratic equation fun.
Geometry
Students continue to solve their How tall is the JCC wall? problem. Today they used the hipsometer to measure the angle of elevation. Now they will take that information determine how to use the data collected to solve the problem.
Physics
In physics class, students are learning about circuits. They are going to create an electric house. They have to make the house with rooms, and make all the things in the house. They have to light up the house with one of the two type of circuits they have learned: either series or parallel.
English 1
The students were introduced to the writers of 15th- and 16th-century Florence through art, culture, and cameos of leading personalities. Then the class delved into the literature, to find that the newly-invented literary forms of critique, satire, ribaldry, and the smear-piece were the ephemera read by the citizen body. The long-lived, serious work of the first art-historical writer, Vasari, caught the class's attention and demanded a deeper look. When interpreting what they read, the students wrote criticism in their own voices, presented alongside great works of art that supported their views. Now, in reflection, the students are bringing Vasari's words and style back to the forefront and, feeling masterful of them, are preparing to present them.
Freshman Latin 1
Jonathan and the rest of the class are reading and singing Mother Goose in Latin!
European History
We continued to read Night and write our thematic poems. This week, we will finish reading and discussing the book and we will complete our poetry project.
European Art
This week we are tackling the dreaded 3-point perspective drawings. This specific point of view is essential for a comic book artist. It's how they create the dramatic forced perspective city scape backgrounds.
Geometry Art
Johnathan, Matt, and Kaitlyn are creating their designs based on fractal mathematics. We would not have cellphone antennas and cinematic CGI effects if it weren't for fractals.
US History art
Diana is using her inspiration from the environmental project to paint a picture of a tropical landscape.
High School US History
This week we began our Dynamic Decades unit by choosing the 20th Century decades we will be researching. The students spent some time evaluating the great events, issues, science, technology, arts, and culture of the ten decades of the century, and chose to research the 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and the 1980s. This is going to be a very interesting unit!
High School Latin 1
Diana and Kyle are singing Mother Goose in Latin!
High School Environmental/Biology
In this class, students are learning about bird migrations and how the environment and climate change has affected their numbers. Each paired student had to adopt a bird and learn its migration route, habitat, and how the bird is affected by climate change.
High School Algebra II
The start of a new topic, Radicals and Radical Expressions, challenges the students to reach back to Algebra 1 skills, recognizing prime numbers and perfect squares. The class is in wait-time before the correct answer is revealed.
Happy Birthday, Braeden!
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
CONSERVATORY PREP SCHOOLS
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Location: 5850 S Pine Island Rd, Davie, FL, United States
Phone: 954 680-5808