Feliz Verano

Dear AFS Families,

I wanted to close the end of the year with a video that shows some of the activities we did during Spanish class. Have a great summer!

Abrazos.

¡El Mundial!

The Soccer World Cup went from South Africa to five-time champion Brazil. The opening ceremony is this coming Thursday, June 12th, and the first match is Brazil against Croatia. If you are a soccer fan like me, you are probably as excited as I am!

What does this has to do with Spanish?

Fútbol (soccer) is very popular in Spain and Latin America. If you and your children can easily contract la fiebre del fútbol (soccer fever), I would like to encourage you to watch the matches in Spanish. Depending on your channel lineup, you will find a few networks always showing World Cup soccer games in Spanish.

Some of the are: Univisión, Telemundo, ESPN Deportes, and Fox Latino.

P.S: El Mundial short in Spanish for "The World Cup."

The Last Classes of Español

During our last classes, we studied Los Días de la Semana (days of the week). We also reviewed parts of the curriculum through songs and games they students love. Finally, we closed up with a quick lesson on how to dance salsa and merengue... and you should have seen them dancing!

Lower School Arts Day Is This Friday!!!

THE RHYTHM WITHIN

An AFS Early Childhood and Lower School Spring Arts Day

~ Friday, June 6, 2014 ~

12:15 p.m.

Muller Auditorium ~ Doors Open

12:30 p.m.

Spring Program Begins
Abington Friends School Muller Auditorium

1:30 p.m.

Lower School Arts Gallery Walk

2:15 p.m.

Home and School Cupcake Celebration

~ Spring Program Concert Attire ~
All lower school students should dress in black shirts and long, black pants.  Students are welcome to bring their concert attire clothing to school on Thursday, June 6, 2013.  All students will be given the opportunity to change at school on Friday morning prior to the performance. 

Please note that many students will be involved in movement performance on stage and should wear pants and comfortable shoes (no heels, sandals or flip flops please).  Please make sure that students have on dark socks as we occasionally do movement performances without shoes.

We look forward to celebrating our accomplishments with you on Friday, June 6th in the 

AFS Muller Auditorium beginning at 12:30 p.m.  The auditorium doors will open at 12:15 p.m. 

Please allow additional time for parking.

NO EXTENDED DAY ON FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014

Extended Day will not be providing care on Friday, June 6, 2014.

Please make note of this for planning purposes. 

Trip to Pennypack Farm!

Last week we went to Pennypack Farm and CSA to learn about farming.  The students learned how to plant crops in rows, how the water gets delivered to the plants and got to sample snow peas.  They saw a bee hive, learned about keeping chickens and got to feed the chickens as well.  The best part was an opportunity to do some planting themselves.  They dug, planted, watered and composted in the garden classroom at the farm.  Here are a few photos that highlight our experience.

Water Exploration!

Recently, we had a chance to go to the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association with Rosanne for a creek study.  Two days before our trip, we had an AFS creek walk to get ready!  Rosanne taught us all about the different kinds of animals that we might find in the creek and that finding lots of critters indicated a healthy stream.  It was lots of fun getting wet and looking for animals.  We even used paint brushes to gently remove critters from rocks into our collecting bins.  We discovered assorted larvae, a salamander, frogs, water pennies, and water skimmers.

To further our understanding of water, we have been experimenting with its unique characteristics, learning about surface tension, water as a solid, liquid and a gas, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, sinking and floating, salt water vs fresh water, and of course the water cycle!

Enjoy our discoveries!!

AFS creek walk:

At the watershed with Rosanne:

Surface tension:  Can you make paper clips float?

How many pennies can you add to a FULL cup of water?  Why so many?

How many drops of water can you fit onto a penny, nickel and a dime?

Can you separate water into droplets and then put them back together?  Which is easier to do?

Fresh water and a carrot - what will happen?

Add some salt...

Add more salt...

And a little more...

What happened and why?

Will a berry basket full of holes sink or float?

Why?

Add dish soap and what happens?  Why?

Creating the water cycle in a bottle.

Clouds are forming.

More swirling clouds.

Oh no!  The clouds are escaping!

Any rain yet?

Our incredible illustration of the water cycle!!

Rain drops at last!