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October 1, 2010

Celebrating Peace!! By Sydney Parmet and Hannah Grossman Photos by Nayah Moore and Ben Wainfan

If you wanted to be in a peaceful place, you should have been at the FCS peace assembly on Friday, September 25.

The assembly opened with the Nursery children show-ing us how to make the peace sign with our fingers. Wasn’t that awesome?

Next Pre-KA came up and showed us their fantastic tie-dye t-shirts while saying peace in several different languages.

The first graders sang a wonderful song called “Down by the Riverside” while playing beautiful sounding instruments.

2A came on stage and shared what peace meant to them.

3A sang a very old song known to many called “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” and plenty of people in the audi-ence sang along.

4C shared their awesome drawings and told what peace meant to them. Then the rest of fourth grade joined 4C up on stage for a fantabulous ending. They sang a song, “Peace Salaam Shalom” which means peace in English, Arabic and Hebrew. Each and everyone sang along.

What does peace mean to YOU?????

Visiting Our Peace Pole Photos and Caption by Tori Lane and Carson Lonner

“Peace starts with thoughts of peace,” said Ms. Will to class 4B and others who met her at the peace pole right at the entrance to the school near the mural. On the peace pole there are words of peace in nine different languages. The pole represents peace on earth on International Peace Day, when everyone on earth comes together to make peace.

Peace Flags and Yellow Jackets By Dylan Mitchell and Devon Sandler

Photos by Zoe Shoemaker and Nir Netz

Why did the yellow jacket wasps have to make their nest right in the spot where we were going to have our peace day Meeting for Worship? Maybe the yel-low jackets were trying to show us that they were peaceful by making their nest in a log right under our peace flags!

Our peace flags have very color-ful and peaceful designs. “I asked the kids to think of ideas or designs that would make a really lovely, peaceful statement,” said Ms. Parris, our 3rd and 4th grade art teacher. “No matter what colors or designs you put on the flags they look so good hang-ing together as a community.”

To make the peace flags, Ms. Parris and Mrs. Exley cut up bed sheets into a rec-tangle shape. Then everyone made a design on a piece of paper. We put a piece of fab-ric over our design and traced our design on to the fabric using a special glue. The next time we came to art class everyone painted their flags with colors over the whole thing. Then Ms. Parris and Mrs. Exley secretly scrubbed the glue off when the kids weren’t looking. The glue came off and there were beautiful white lines the color of the fabric.

We made the peace flags based on the Tibetan prayer flags to honor the Inter-national Day of Peace on September 21st. We had to move our Meeting for Worship because of the yellow jacket’s nest.

SO PLEASE DON’T GO NEAR THE NEST. Let’s live peacefully with the yellow jackets!

There was a yellow jacket wasp nest near our peace flags so we moved our Meet-ing for Worship near the pool.

4th graders stand near the peace flags, but not too close to the wasp’s nest.

Mrs. Dawson played “Go Now in Peace” at the end of the Meeting for Worship.

October 1, 2010 One Step At A ...TIMES FCS Lower School

Welcome to Another Great School Year

On Friday, September 10th, the Lower School met outside near the Friendship Bell to ring in the new school year. Mr. Ludwig asked Emma to read the inscription and Ben to ring the bell. Then everyone in 1st through 4th grade went to the Meeting Room to meet our new students and teachers. Here is a photo of some of the new 1st graders and our new music teacher, Mrs. Caldwell.

3A and 3C Meet a Real Pilot: The “Other” Mr. Denton

You’ve all heard of Ben and Jerry; and you’ve heard of Tom and Jerry. Now meet Don and Jerry! 3A and 3C were lucky enough to meet Mr. Denton’s brother Jerry, a real pilot. Jerry Denton, who lives in Virginia, flew his single engine Cessna airplane to see his little brother Donny last week. Since 3A and 3C are both studying flight, he came to our school and talked to them about all the different kinds of planes that he has flown, including helicopters. The pictures of the airplane are from our Mr. Denton’s personal collection.