The Atlanta School

Lower 2 Masterpiece

taslower2 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:53:43 +0000

In honor of publishing their class book, “The World’s Best Flowers”, the L2 students planned and hosted an Authors’ Party to celebrate their collective accomplishment! Each student presented their contribution to the book by reading about their flowers and sharing their illustrations. It was a fabulous event attended by the entire Atlanta School community!

April Events at TAS

Mindy — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:39:48 +0000

Mark your calendars!

April 2-6
Spring Break!

April 17 and April 19
Elementary Circus Art “Show Off Day”
Check with your child’s teacher for the appropriate day

April 25
Middle School Performance

April 28-29
Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary
Inman Park Festival and Parade
Our theme this year is “Silver” Come join us!

L2 Springs into new unit

Mindy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:42:42 +0000

The Lower 2 classroom is in full bloom as we spring forward with our
unit study! Neighborhood “flower walks” and field trips to the L2 Garden
and Gardenhood nursery have inspired our class writing project. Students
are working through the writing process and have completed the
pre-writing and first drafts of our class book about unusual flowers.
This week we will work to finish our revisions and final drafts in order
to submit our book for publishing!

Teamwork

naomimargo — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:36:52 +0000

Our class and school work to build the community that we share. Together we create art, clean our school, share our successes, and our sorrows, and work together to solve conflicts. The children initiated this display to show that we will work together once again!

Red Balloons

naomimargo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:01:44 +0000

The Red Balloon was wonderful! If you are not familiar with the story, it is about a boy that is bullied by other children. After the show, we discussed what it means to be a “bully” and thought of ways that “the boy” could have gotten help. It was interesting to listen to them talk about it with each other and to process all the feelings that they had while watching the performance. It was very exciting to come back to a room full of balloons! Thank you again, Romel! The first reaction that we heard was that the balloons had followed us from the show. They also thought maybe aliens brought them from outer space. The preschool years are a truly magical! That also explains why fears are so powerful and real for them. You can help them further understand “bullying” by talking about it at home and asking them what they think. We all want school to be a safe place to grow and explore!

froggy hats by LI

pbradley — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:38:03 +0000

These are the beautiful hats each LI child hand sewed in art with Paulette. The class is studying pond life all year. This is but one inspiration

YEAH BURGER! January17

Jennifer — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:21:14 +0000

Bring friends and family for a evening out celebrating community and great food in support of the TAS Annual Fund. Yeah Burger in Virginia / Highlands is donating 10% of the evening’s proceeds to TAS.
YAY YEAH BURGER!!!!

Open House! Come, Let us introduce our family to yours!

Mindy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:48:46 +0000

January 25, 2012 is our next open house. There will be tours and light refreshments. Friends, family, and prospective parents are invited.

P. E. in the Park

tasupper1 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:21:36 +0000

What a perfect day for our first P.E. lesson! Thanks to our school’s prime location, we were able to enjoy a walk to our neighboring Inman Park, which just so happens to have a field perfect for kickball. An ideal Fall afternoon filled with good exercise, good camaraderie, and a couple swings on the monkey bars for good measure.

Can’t wait for next Thursday’s P. E. adventure!

Fruit or Vegetable???

taslower2 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:50:46 +0000

Our apple explorations have broadened into an in-depth study of fruits and vegetables. Our recent field trips to the Dekalb Farmers Market and Oakhurst Garden have provided opportunities for learning about a variety of both!

LE II students discovered that all fruits have seeds and if we eat part of the plant itself, then it is a vegetable. This was a bit mind bending for some of us since many of the produce we think of as vegetables are really fruits!

The children had so much fun predicting whether produce was a fruit or vegetable and then cutting it open to discover if they were correct! It was fun to use some of our farmers market finds to make our very own “group soup”!