Inspiring Life-long Learning for 25 Years
The fifth grade ended their block on ancient Egypt with building a pyramid as a class. They did their best to replicate the process and form of the amazing structures from so long ago. They even used rulers to try…
The fifth graders enjoyed a trip to the Field Museum this weektin conjunction with their ancient cultures block. They especially enjoyed seeing and learning about the Egyptian mummies! They joined Mrs. DuRocher's fifth grade class from Four Winds Waldorf School…
The 5th Grade helped celebrate Chinese New Year by cooking and enjoying pot stickers. They also presented a short and impressive play demonstrating their progress with the Mandarin language.
The fifth grade performed their play—Prometheus, the Fire Bringer on Thursday. This is a story about two titans, Prometheus (which means forethought) and Epimetheus (afterthought), who are given the task by Zeus of creating a new race of human beings…
Da Vinci Waldorf School is participating a worldwide postcard exchange initiative to both broaden the global perspective of students and kick-off the 100 year celebration of Waldorf® Education planned for 2019. Stay tuned for more details! [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="188" gal_title="20180205FifthGradePostcardsWaldorf100"]
Fifth grade introduction to geometry: playing with equilateral and isosceles triangles! [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="184" gal_title="20180119FifthGradeGeometry"]
Fifth grade has had a busy week! They started a new block focused on decimals and an introduction to geometry. They also started to learn the ukulele! To top all that off, they shared reports on novels they've read. One…
The fifth grade had an introduction to perspective drawing with their lesson on ziggurats. These are ancient temples from Mesopotamia. They will spend time working on these and then making their own out of clay—which is what the ancient Mesopotamians…
Studying ancient Mesopotamia.
