A Sneak Peek of the Navigators' Amazing Plastic Cap Auction Project!

Stand back and take a look. Can you tell what it is? 

Scroll down to the bottom and see if you're correct!

The whole school has been helping the Navigators collect plastic caps for our auction project. The process has taught us a lot about teamwork and about making a difference in our world. 

(Be sure to take a look at our stop motion advertisement called "Help Our Planet" on YouTube!)

First we just played with the caps and came up with some mini designs. 

The Seabury School logo

Then we looked at some artwork of a famous artist and tried to find crayons that matched his palette.

Coloring his painting, Starry Night

  

Ready to start covering the two panels of our project. 

Notice how big it will be.

Finding the right colors

Making the moon

 

The shining star

The right side of the tree

The left side of the tree

The peasants

Gorilla glue

Activating the Gorilla glue with water

Plastic gloves + water = fun!

Have you figured it out?

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Van Gogh's Country Road in Provence by Night,

also known as Road with Cypress and Star.

See the resemblance? 

All we need is a few more plastic caps and a lot of bidders at our upcoming Seabury School Auction, Casino Royale! 

Hope to see you there!!

Les Oeufs Verts au Jambon--Celebrating Dr. Seuss in French

We celebrated Dr. Seuss day with a visit from Madame Olliphant, our recently retired French teacher. We gave her a scrap book of pictures and thank you notes, we had cake, and we got to hear her read Les Oeufs Verts au Jambon (Green Eggs and Ham) in French!

We also had some Wacky Math. Notice the uniqueness of each person's drawings:

We wore our pajamas and read books. It's so fun to read by ourselves, with our friends and teachers, and even with Ms Wollum.

We participated in the annual Dr. Seuss Trivia Contest:

A great day was had by all. We love Dr. Seuss!

Who Knew Science Could Be So Fun?

Time to learn about animals that crawl. 

What fun we had as we used our observation and classification skills to sort a variety of seashells. 

This group had a different plan.

Comparing strategies

 

We 💓 Science!

MaST: Seeing Animals Big and Small

How awesome is it that our school is near  a street called Marine View Drive. How even more awesome is it that a local community college has a laboratory and an aquarium a few miles north of us that they open up for school field trips.  

MaST: Marine Science and Technology Center

We started our lesson by asking a good question, "What's in our water?"

We know about the big things, like this gray whale.

But what about the little things, the things that need a microscope in order to see? 

So we became the scientists and went outside to use a plankton tow.

We came back in and looked at our water samples through microscopes.

We looked for both zooplankton (animals) and phytoplankton (plants.)

We saw some! 

We even saw one that looked like Sheldon J. Plankton, a SpongeBob SquarePants character.

See the resemblance? 

We then went to the touch tanks that are full of local marine life.

Inside the main building is a mini-museum that houses the skeleton of a whale.

It was found beached in West Seattle.

It's huge--37 feet!

We learned about how some whales have baleen which is used to strain plankton from seawater. An adult gray whale in the summer feeding grounds eats approximately 2,400 pounds of plankton a day!

We examined several types of baleen.

We saw what was in the gray whale's stomach--plastic bags, a surgical glove, a Capri Sun container, duct tape, a sock, a golf ball and more! We wonder if these things contributed to its death. We wonder what can be done to clean up our beautiful Puget Sound.

Thank you, MaST for allowing us to come be scientists. We are becoming more conservation minded and enjoyed our day of investigating the world around us.