Today's K-8 Assembly: drama, leadership, science, poetry, and music!

Today's K-8 assembly was incredibly fun! After Mitch welcomed the students, the program began with a skit presented by the 7th grade students focusing on the ideas of inclusion/exclusion, cooperation, and comfort talking about these difficult topics. Check out the script written by Norman Johnson, TBS's very own Middle School Drama Teacher!

This was followed by a pitch from last year's Student Council members about the exciting experience of being on the council, and setting the stage for the selection/election process that will take place in classrooms during the next two weeks.

At each assembly, one or more classrooms presents a Showcase of Learning, in which they talk about recent classroom experiences and academic ideas they have been learning and thinking. Today's SoL featured students from Wildcat Creek (6th grade), sharing information from their Science curriculum about the composition of the Earth, and also reading original poems they've written in the style of Billy Collins' work "On Turning 10".  

The last piece of the assembly was a body-percussion experience led by Owen Roberts, TBS K-8 Music Teacher. He taught first a simple two-beat clap rhythm; then a second, four-beat snapping rhythm; and then a third, eight-beat body drumming rhythm. He split the room into groups and layered all three rhythms together, and then introduced a call-and-response element using just the chorus of "Hello Bonjour" by local artist Michael Franti and Spearhead.