Upper High School Students deconstruct light to investigate the structure of matter this week in Physical Science. No photons will be harmed during this activity and a representative of PETA (Photon Emission, Transition and Absorption) will be on-site.
Welcome new and returning students!
Parent orientation is scheduled for August 12 beginning at 6:00 PM. If you are a new parent, or started school mid-year in 2009-10 then you are required to attend. Orientation will guide you in our daily schedule, disciplinary procedures, show-and-tell, and many other day-to-day happenings. It is a great way to get to know your childs’ teacher as well as the other parents in their room. Please set aside 30-45 minutes to meet with the teachers at The Capitol Preschool.
Parent orientation is for parents only.
Open house is August 13th from 8:00-10:00 AM. Drop by with your child for a few minutes and meet his/her teachers, find your child’s cubby, turn in forms, blue cards, extra clothes, and nap mats. Parents can come anytime during the open house and are not required to stay the full two hours. We look forward to seeing you there!
Five Capitol School elementary school students ran in the Mayor’s Cup 5K event in downtown Tuscaloosa on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The runners included Melanie Mew, Tayler Daughtry, Kristin Hobson, and Marko Beasley. Marko won third place in his age division. All runners completed the race through the pouring rain, and they refused to quit!
Before the run.
Cold, wet, but happy running buddies.
Melanie after the run.
Marko with his trophy.
Students at The Capitol School realize that that there are many ways to do math. In our cluster, we use a combination of montessori math, touchmath, accelerated math and other manipulatives to experience mathematics. Here, these students use tens bars and units to learn addition with regrouping.
The Tuscaloosa Multiple Sclerosis Walk was a great success! Our team set a fundraising goal of $500 and ended up bringing in a total of $1,076 to date! Children do not have to wait until they are adults to make a difference in our world. They can and do make a difference RIGHT NOW! Thank you all for your donations, fundraising, support and community spirit!
Our German students had another successful day at the University of Alabama’s German Day. We competed against high school German programs from across the state. We won:
• 13 Awards including:
1. 1st Place, individual poetry, level 2, Teddy Copeland
2. 2nd Place, individual poetry, level 3/4, Tori Marriot
3. 1st Place, group song, level 3/4, Tori Marriot, Dee Owens, Sean Mohabbat, Mary Hanna McDonald, Forest Copeland
4. Most Humorous Group Song, level 3/4
5. 2nd Place, spelling bee, level 1, River Copeland
6. 2nd Place, extemporaneous speaking, level 3/4, Tori Marriot
7. 3rd Place, extemporaneous speaking, level 1, Riley Peak
8. 2nd Place, dual show and tell, level 3/4, Tori Marriot and Sean Mohabbat
9. 2nd Place, dual show and tell, level 1, Riley Peak and River Copeland
10. 2nd Place, t-shirt design, level 2, Pascal Nad
11. 3rd Place, German video, level 3/4, Tori Marriot, Dee Owens, Nick Ultee, Forest Copeland
12. 3rd Place, original art, level 2, Teddy Copeland
13. 2nd Place, children’s book, level 3/4, Nick Ultee
• Tori Marriot ranked second place overall in level 3/4
Once thought lost to a hard drive crash, the article from the November/December 2007 issue of Kids Life Magazine – Montessori Education: How one Tuscaloosa Preschool Encourages a Love of Learning has been restored.
Read the full article here.
The speed and comprehension challenge in mathematics came to a conclusion this week. In The Capitol School’s own version of March Madness, students were paired off for sets of ten problems each in addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Runners-up Rachael Shirley, Mary Hanna McDonald, and finally River Copeland, gave Nick Ultee a tremendous challenge. Nick did a superb job during the contest. His prize was a ten dollar award to the movies. Congratulations to everyone involved.
The University of Alabama Urban Gardens
Students at the University of Alabama in New College 490: Organic Farming II, this semester, are designing and implementing urban gardens. These will be container gardens, and will include composting, and seed starting and transplanting. The groups will be updating their blog weekly, beginning February 24th.
After our time at the farm today, we all met at the Capitol School to begin implementing our garden. Here’s a quick reminder of what seeds we have started:
- Basil
- Lettuce
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Radishes
- Carrots
- Purple Beans
- Strawberries
- Sunflowers
- Marigolds
Want to know more and see the pictures? >click<
Kids Life Magazine has posted a listing of Summer programs around Tuscaloosa and The Capitol School’s Summer Explorations is on their list.
Though a link to our Summer Explorations page was not included, the rest of the article was good.
Read it for yourself, here.
