Fourth Grade students will be participating in the annual Environmental Symposium on May 8, along with fourth graders from other Friends Schools. At Gathering we got a sneak peek of their presentation. Students described their work around electricity use at LFS and shared photographs of our electric meters and the variety of light bulbs used at school. Third grade students presented a skit that they wrote about the history of petroleum.

Tr. Jacqueline celebrated Queen's Day, a Dutch holiday, on April 30 with Pre-K. They played games like "koekhappen" and "poffertjes".

First and Second graders are visiting Japan! Tr. Susie and Tr. Jill gave each student a passport and a boarding pass, and on their flight to Japan students tracked the flight's progress, had a Japanese snack, and watched a movie about two girls who moved to Japan. Students are exploring Japan in lots of ways. They tasted Japanese food. They solved soduko puzzles and counted in Japanese. They read and listened to haiku poems, and then wrote their own poems under the cherry blossoms in Sycamore Park and at the school. They painted paper lanterns to include in LFS's Silent auction and then painted other lanterns to keep. They played Jan Ken Po (Rock, Paper, Scissors) and learned Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese.