Monkeyshining Around Tacoma

Seabury School joined in on the city-wide fun of Monkeyshines, 

an annual scavenger hunt that celebrates the Chinese New Year. The week before we created our own clay "Monkeyshines" and joined our fellow Tacoma-ites in the big day of hide and seek. We discovered that the giving made us feel just as good as the finding. Here are a few pictures from my group that went out and about on a brisk but sunny winter day. 

One of the many hand-blown glass globes hidden around Tacoma. 

Our Seabury Monkeyshine 

Ready to hide

The hunt is on. 

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article59129483.html#storylink=cp

Monkey foot prints?

Is this a good place to hide one?

We hugged some trees.

Are there any in here?

Maybe in a pile of leaves?

Look!

Found!



Hanging out at the Middle School downtown campus.


Other Monkeyshines that were found:

Traditions of the Seabury Community

We enjoy celebrating each other 

and celebrating Seabury School.

Here are a few of our traditions at Seabury:

Feeling the love on Valentine's Day

We <3 making healthy choices.

We <3 making rectangular prisms.

We <3 playing math games!

We <3 Mine Craft.

We <3 each other!

Even the parking lot greeted us with love. 

Groundhog's Day

Taking a survey: do you think the Groundhog will see its shadow?

Swimming

Our local community center has a beautiful pool 

We learn a lot in 4 weeks of lessons.

Snowflake Breakfast

Pancakes and syrup for all

A big thank you to so many parents who come to serve

A place for everyone

An all school sing-a-long

Singing with Mrs. Wollum

Our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast

Making cornucopias to bring to the feast

The feast!

Gotta have a turkey

Can You Make an Anemometer? A Wind Vane?

Two tasks 

+ MakerSpace supplies 

+ knowledge 

+collaboration and learning from each other

+ trial and error/back to the drawing board/persistance

= Engineering Success!

The Tasks: 

The MakerSpace supplies: 

The Trial and Error: 

 

  

The success (testing in front of a fan):

Fun in the process:  

Recording and sharing the results: 

 

As we share our results, we are learning how to go through 

the steps of the Scientific Method. We even learn when we are not successful.  

Success! 

One of the tricks? 

A small straw within a larger straw.