Welcome to 9-A!

As part of our celebration of African American History Month we discussed how quilt squares were used to help people navigate the Underground Railroad. The different squares were symbols that served as reminders. For example, the Flying Geese square was a reminder to follow the geese that would be flying north in the springtime and would not be far from water. The girls made construction paper quilt squares. Didn't they do a great job?! Ask your daughter to identify her square and to tell you the secret code it held!

In composition the girls have been working on a creative writing essay called Shipwrecked. The girls pretend  to be stranded on a desert island. They got to create a digital book, complete with illustrations, to go along with it. Here are some completed books. Click on a student's initials to read her book!
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Today the girls gave their final performance of Twice Upon A Time, our Ninth Age play. We have spent the last six weeks rehearsing, and all of our hard work paid off! The shows were great, and the girls had a lot of fun. Here they are in their costumes before the show today.

We have been studying latitude and longitude in Geography. The girls recently had an opportunity to play a game to practice their new skills. They picked a card from the latitude pile and a card from the longitude pile. Then they used a map to locate the intersection of their two chosen lines. Their goal was to find an intersection that had an island on it. If they did, they got a point. At the end of the game, the girl with the most points was the winner!

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On Friday the girls enjoyed a Martin Luther King assembly as well as a Ravens (or favorite sports team) dress down day. Both were a huge success, as you can see from the pictures. It is not often that the entire school (Lower and Middle) gets together, so this was a special time for everyone. We heard from parent and student speakers and sang a few songs together.