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Quick Pix As always, it has been a busy few days at Carolina Day. The fourth and fifth graders from the Key School took a bike trip on the Virginia Creeper Rails-to-Trails ride as a class field trip. This bike and hiking trail was converted from an old railway line and provides a wonderful off-road experience. The Virginia Creeper is located in Southwestern Virginia.
Click for more information on the Virginia Creeper Trail. The Carolina Day pre-kindergarten year isn't complete without the annual PK Letter People Parade. Check out just some of the letters.
It looks like these folks are parading as well. The fifth graders held their own western hoedown the other day complete with a promenade entrance, square dancing (even some parents joined in), some cowboy singing, tall-tale telling, and a special visit from a Wyoming cowboy who stumbled in from back in time.
Sixth and seventh graders had some really fun classes in drama. They participated in scene-study master classes with Chris Lynn from Asheville Arts Center last week.
Newbery Honor award-winning author Bill Brittain visited with the third graders on Wednesday. Mr. Brittain discussed the writing and publishing process. His books are always popular reads, and the students were enthralled with the way stories come to be. It's not all that easy!
These boys were dreaming about how they could become successful authors!
The soon-to-be upper school graduates were treated to an evening meal, games, and friendship by the upper school students this week at the Senior Send-Off. They graduate tomorrow at 10:30 A.M. We'll miss you!
The first graders presented plays for an appreciative audience last week. As always, they brought down the house.
In case you missed the great news, our tennis team won their second straight state championship last weekend. Congratulations!
The fifth graders held their annual egg-drop competition this week. These students studied the process of design by designing, building, and testing egg-drop contraptions meant to protect a raw egg from breaking using only toothpicks, glue, and their imaginations. It was a media frenzy with photographers and reporters showing up from WLOS-Channel 13 and the Asheville Citizen-Times. These next few photos are of the winners in the "creativity" category.
And then the contest started. Each contraption is dropped from the same height (five feet) to start, and those that remain unbroken get to move to the second round at seven feet. It continues until only one egg container remains.
And these are the winners. The two girls were champs. Their contraption protected their raw egg from a drop of 18 feet—a new CDS record. We would have gone higher, but we were out of ladder.
Parting Snaps...
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