Enjoying yesterday's beautiful spring weather, Teacher Katie and Teacher Emily (our University of Delaware music student teacher) placed melodies outside for fourth grade students to find as part of a melody scavenger hunt. As students located each melody, they labeled the solfege, sang it, and notated it!
In computer science class, 8th graders made and flew paper airplanes, then returned to the classroom to write an algorithm (a set of instructions that a computer follows) for making their plane.
Fifth grade teacher Beth Hill '12 (pictured with her students) has been teaching about slavery––how it began, the passage, and modern-day slavery–– and recently students created a virtual museum.
Congratulations to Teacher Katie and all the stars of the 5th Grade Musical, Super Happy Awesome News, for an incredible performance! Thank you to the many friends and family who joined us for this special night.
Presented through special arrangement with Beat by Beat Press (www.bbbpress.com)
The Wilmington Friends School boys 400 relay team made history on Sunday, February 28, when they placed third in the State Championship race, becoming the first known all-Black swim relay team in Delaware to make the podium.
Sixth graders recently completed their unit on the voice in Exploring Music. They have been demonstrating their understanding through short essays on the process of creating sound, followed by creative projects on the anatomy and function of the larynx.
First graders are engaged in their new writing unit about opinion writing. Teacher Patrick began the unit by sharing a collection of small erasers and picking the one that he thought was the best. He then gave three reasons why that one eraser, the dog, was the greatest. Once he had a turn, the kids had a turn picking one of the erasers and explaining why that was the best.
Seventh graders participated in a "space challenge" in Mrs. Hegenbarth's class, learning all about an astronomy topic that they feel passionate about, including this one about how NASA uses origami to help them transport large solar arrays.
Congratulations to the volleyball team on their repeat title of Delaware Independent School (DISC) champs, and to the boys' soccer team who were DISC co-champs this year!
On October 31, WFS upper school lacrosse players volunteered with Sling Shot Lacrosse in partnership with the City of Wilmington and the Delaware Chapter of US Lacrosse at a "Scoop or Treat" event--a combination trunk or treat and lacrosse clinic for kids new to the sport.