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December Activities in Grade 1-2, 2015

Stories, stories everywhere! In Writing Workshop

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we are finishing up our ‘Action figure’ stories. The main characters (many of whom can fly!) are based on the action figures that came home from Art class a few weeks back. They have beautiful covers and some have illustrations throughout. Some have dedications, some have chapters and one has even inspired a sequel! Later in the Winter you will be invited to a Author’s Tea where your child will share a favorite story with classmates and parents.

In Social Studies we are concentrating on the theme of Peace. We have shared with each other where that special spot is where we can go to find peace when we are upset. Some spots are outside in nature and some are right in our own rooms. Our Peaceful Place stories have just gone from brainstorming to our first drafts. We are having another visit to Kimball Farms next Tuesday afternoon with the 9th graders for some caroling and giving the gift of the time lines the students have made of the important events in the lives of the residents they have met there.

The Book Fair has finished up and thank you all again for your support of the Fair. It really did a lot to further inspire and excite our burgeoning readers.

The Holiday Gift Drive is also finishing up. As you know, volunteers from the PA will be in Albright to receive your wrapped gifts this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings.

We look forward to seeing you if you are able to attend this year’s Holiday Concert on Friday & just to keep things really hopping we have a Pizza Friday too!

Wishing you some lovely family time with the warm weather predicted for the weekend.

Best, Katharine and Kay

By BCD Blog|2016-05-04T07:45:38-04:00December 9th, 2015|

piles of Pampers, heaps of Huggies, lotsa Luvs, and plenty of Pull-Ups!

Due to the generous contributions of BCD families and faculty, the Berkshire Community Diaper Project now has 3,000+ more diapers to distribute!

It was heartwarming to see how our community rallied around this important collection, as students arrived each morning with arms filled equally with backpacks and diapers. While the entire school was part of this endeavor, there are some folks especially worthy of extra thanks.

The BCD Student Council whose members took charge of the drive! From planning and promoting to making posters to sharing information with the younger students to standing outside at car line each morning (and exuberantly exhorting everyone who arrived to “BRING US SOME DIAPERS!”), to counting the mountain of donated boxes and packages, our Student Council members served as service role models for us all. Thanks Student Council members!

Sarah Pitcher-Hoffman, Student Council faculty sponsor, for working with the Student Council to organize and follow-through with the Diaper Drive project. Not only did Sarah lend her room and several lunch hours to Student Council and this service project, her gentle encouragement and troop-rallying are much appreciated by all. Thanks, Sarah!

Mara Goodman Davies who first brought the Diaper Drive to our attention. Her enthusiasm for and dedication to community service projects are nothing short of remarkable! Mara also served as our delivery person extraordinare. Thanks, Mara!

To the parents

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who purchased the diapers, to the students who brought them to BCD for collection, and to all the drivers who delivered the plethora from here to there…. THANKS!

By BCD Blog|2019-01-10T11:53:03-05:00November 27th, 2015|

Warp Trio

Take three talented musicians (the “Trio”), add a little bit of classical, a smidgen of jazz, and a whole lot of improv (the “Warp”), and you get an all-school assembly sure to delight!

We were so lucky to welcome Warp Trio to Berkshire Country Day on Friday. For the last hour of the day, Furey Hall was equally filled with wonderful students and wonderful music.

From a Bach cello piece,

to an interesting take on Duke Ellington,

to a student-led musical adventure featuring Dr. L eating blue pizza on Mars,

we were all fascinated and delighted into rapt attention!

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By BCD Blog|2019-01-10T11:53:04-05:00November 22nd, 2015|

Where there’s smoke there’s POTTERY, the Evans/Spitzer takeover, and Westward HO HO HO!

NEWSFLASH from the Art Studios!

To cap off the end of the first trimester, Upper School ceramics students completed an ambitious pottery project involving traditional decorating and firing techniques inspired by the work of Magdalene Odundo. Clay pieces were burnished with terra sigillata and given an iron wash before being fired in saggars

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in an outdoor pit firing kiln which the students built by hand. Using bricks, wood pieces, and sawdust students assembled the pit, inserted their pieces, and lit the interior on fire before covering the top to preserve the high temperature and to produce smoke. The kiln burned for 24 hours before the final artworks were removed.

In other Arts Block news, Mr. Knoll’s Drawing students received a special visit from artist Valaire Van Slyck last week. The Detroit native paints urban scenes using auto-motive paints, acrylic, confetti, and glitter among other mixed media. Students were treated to individual conversations and critiques from Valaire as they worked on their graphic novel projects.

Teaching artists Ben Evans and Max Spitzer have stepped in to offer new media and experiences for our K-6 students! Kindergarten through Fourth Grade students are working with Mr. Evans this winter for an in-depth trimester of pinching, pounding, and hand-building with clay in the Ceramics Studio. Meanwhile, Mr. Spitzer takes charge of the Fifth and Sixth Grade classes as they delve into a term packed with drawing and painting projects. Great things are bound to emerge with this dynamic duo at the helm!

Students become cowboys and cowgirls as part of BCD’s contribution to the Berkshire Museum’s 2015 Festival of Trees. Fully embracing the theme “Westward Ho, Ho, Ho” in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibits, “Greatest Photographs of the American West” and “Go West“, Lower and Middle School students posed for photos which were then cut and pasted into authentic images of old west characters. Real and fictional, from Annie Oakley to Clint Eastwood, students embodied sharp shooters, outlaws, deputies, and lawmen. The images were printed in sepia tone, mounted on burlap, and hung on the tree with handwritten quotes from these characters along with other rustic, copper decorations. Click HERE to read more about BCD’s tree and the Festival of Trees in the Berkshire Eagle!