Our Winter Fine Arts Night showcased beautiful music and art created by our students.
Our Winter Fine Arts Night showcased beautiful music and art created by our students.
Our Winter Fine Arts Night showcased beautiful music and art created by our students.
The 11th grade travelled to the National Gallery of Art on Monday for a private presentation on Manet and Dutch still-life paintings. Afterwards, they spent time enjoying both the traditional and modern works of art on display.
An evening featuring our 7th and 8th grade recorder ensembles along with performances by our Chamber Choir, Trinity Chorale and Tempest in a Barbershop. Student artwork created this semester will also be on display.
Congratulations to the 11th grade on last weekend’s production of “The Misanthrope” by Molière.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Our 7th grade girls have discovered ancient history this semester in a variety of ways. They have created their own cuneiform clay tablets similar to those used by the ancient Sumarians, studied Phoenician ship building and constructed a model of the Tower of Babel.
Members of the 11th grade are rehearsing “The Misanthrope” by Moliere. Come out and see it this Friday and Saturday evening, December 15 and 16, at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the play begins at 7:30.
This week on campus was Winter Wonder Week — a series of class contests in preparation for Christmas. We’ve had class competitions for the best Christms limerick and best-sung Christmas carol. Today was Christmas tree decorating and tomorrow will be cookie tasting!
As part of their unit study on astronomy, the 7th grade boys learned about rockets. They each built and launched their own bottle rocket and recorded how far it travelled.