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Quick Pix As always, it has been a busy few days at Carolina Day. For the past few weeks, the full-day kindergarten students have been reading books by the well-known author Eric Carle. Eric Carle's art is distinctive because he uses a collage technique to create his bright images. First he hand-paints papers which he cuts and layers to form his delightful illustrations. Last week the students painted tissue paper and then cut and glued the paper to create happy pictures. The children made penguins, buses, geese, and rainbows.
Click to learn more about Eric Carle's art. For years, Carolina Day students have loved having books donated in their honor to the libraries at CDS. But this might be a first. Madge is probably the very first dog to have a book donated in her honor. Madge, who shares a house with the Hanich family, is shown reading her birthday book. It didn't take Madge long to finish reading My Senator and Me. She has now read it three times.
The Upper School Theatre Department is presenting their one-act plays tonight at 7 P.M. on the stage in the lower gym. The plays are The Man in the Bowler Hat and The Labors of Hercules Fitch. These scenes were taken at dress rehearsal on Tuesday. Yesterday the students presented a performance at the Independent Schools Theatre Festival held at Christ School.
It's not often that a Jerry Seinfeld wannabe brings down the house. This is junior Riley Flynn entertaining an impromptu crowd with his stand-up comedy routine. He had his audience in stitches.
The eighth graders had a special event called "Stretch Day" this week. They spent a few hours in three rotations. It all started the week before with teacher Julia Ball demonstrating some dance steps. Julia is shown here with Fabian, her dancing partner.
And then during Stretch Week, Ms. Ball taught each group a few salsa moves during one of the rotations.
While one-third of the eighth graders were perfecting their dance moves, another third were busy having a hands-on workshop with a representative from the College Foundation of North Carolina. The students were introduced to CFNC and were able to go online to discover the wealth of information available to them as they start thinking about their college years ahead.
The other third of the students watched a film about a person with Down syndrome. The Stretch Day program was a big success. To start off Halloween week, these first graders enjoyed Pumpkin Day. Each student got to decorate a pumpkin with markers. No carving for these kids!
Halloween was one wild day at CDS. Lots of kids and teachers and even dogs were dressed for the occasion.
By the way, these three cheerleaders happen to be fifth-grade boys.
As part of the big festivities, the fifth graders had a costume contest. Here are the distinguished judges putting their heads and notes together to make some decisions.
And here are the winning costumes in the fifth grade.
Students at Carolina Day have been putting together care packages this week in recognition of "Make a Difference Day." Seventh graders and their second-grade buddies got together yesterday to package boxes for school children in Durgapur, India. While some groups packed the boxes, others made homemade cards to go inside.
And today, students from the Middle School, Key School, and Upper School got together and put together 70 care packages for veterans at the VA Hospital.
This week these seventh-grade students were outside for a science class. They were studying micro-climates and were taking measurements of ground and air temperatures and collecting other scientific data.
And finally, Halloween or not, these fifth graders must still raise the flag each day.
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