OCTOBER 28, 2021

Slime Time!

Our students are making their own slime! In this hands-on club, students are exploring and creating different slime each week and having the best time! The students intentionally sit in a circle to enable them to see each other’s work. This encourages lively comments and conversations. The students often help each other with glitter color and bead selections, among other objects, to add to their slime. While engaging in this fun activity, the students are supported to follow directions and sequence multi-steps to make slime each week.

Slime is a sensory tool and can be quite calming for many students. Additionally, it can help with fine motor skills that requires the use of the students’ hands and eyes, it is easily malleable, and it is an innovative way to get children to practice strength, fine motor control, and dexterity. So far this quarter, the students have made regular slime, slime with clear glue and glitter, and Halloween slime that included some spooky spiders.

Jewelry Club is Hard at Work

We are having a wonderful time making beautiful necklaces, bracelets, and rings in Jewelry Club! We have some amazingly talented jewelry makers in Cluster A!

The School-Wide Great Pumpkin Decorating Competition!

This week, the whole school participated in The Great Pumpkin Decorating Competition! During advisory class, Middle School and High School students had time to design their own unique pumpkin to represent their group for the contest.

Each advisory class was provided with the same supplies, including paint, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. Students brainstormed ideas, which ranged from spooky images to representations of popular culture, and then worked together to decorate their class pumpkin. The pumpkins were displayed for Elementary School students to judge, with winners determined for spookiest, funniest and most artistic.

7th Grade History

Makey Makey!

The 8th graders have been working on their Makey Makey unit starting with reviewing the basics of circuitry, conductivity, and then building various game keyboards.

Some were very challenging, others much quicker, but all fun in their own ways. They kept practicing and were amazing at supporting one another when needed.

Check out the fun!

Dyslexia Awareness Month

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. The 7th grade observed by learning about famous figures who have dyslexia, including Steven Spielberg and Orlando Bloom.

Students also discussed learning disabilities and differences in general, and learned about poet Amanda Gorman, who has a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder. Students reflected on their own learning differences by writing or drawing a representation of something their learning difference has taught them about themselves.

Hispanic Heritage Month

The 8th grade wrapped up our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month through a food festival during Extended Advisory and Lunch. After watching a series of shows featuring Hispanic cuisine, we tried our hand at making some of our own Hispanic-inspired foods including corn tortillas and pupusas. Students watched videos and then made their own with dough at their desks. We also enjoyed guacamole, escabeche (pickled jalapeños/vegetables) salsa, fruit, and Colombian-style hot chocolate. It was a fun and interactive experience! It was a wonderful way to share knowledge and joy around Hispanic food!

Drama Students Prepare for The Wolves

In the last two weeks, HS Theatre students started rehearsals for Sarah DeLappe's, The Wolves.

Students have gone through an audition process, been cast in roles, are running soccer drills and stretching routines, have attended dramaturgical sessions on the histories imbedded in the play, and are getting back into the swing of memorizing lines, lines, and more lines!

Eco Schools Trick or Trash Campaign

Did you know that Churchill has the Eco Schools Silver Award? The video below tells about our latest initiative - Trick or Trash!

Video was filmed by Leah and Jack in 10th grade. Research, presentation, and editing by Dawn, Benji, and Lucas in 9th grade. 

9th Grade Earth Sciences

Students have just completed a unit of work called astronomy and have used mathematical skills in order to predict the path of the Sun. 

STUCO Halloween Fest is on Friday

Service Learning - God's Love We Deliver

On October 14th, over 50 student volunteers decorated bags that will be donated to the nonsectarian organization God's Love We Deliver. GLWD will fill the decorated bags with a Thanksgiving meal and deliver them to individuals or families living with severe illness in the NYC metropolitan area.

Service Learning - Cards for Hospitalized Kids

Over 50 student volunteers were also involved in our second Churchill service learning event on October 20th. They designed Halloween themed greeting cards in both English and Spanish to send to Cards for Hospitalized Kids. This organization will take the cards and distribute them to children living in hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses across the nation.