Ms. Woodruff
A Night of Christmas
Last night at the DongCheng International Hotel, we celebrated a night of Christmas! Our preschool classes danced and played their musical instruments while singing along to different Christmas carols. The elementary students followed by doing an outstanding job as they got their Forty Winks Til Christmas and showed the audience what it would be... »
Incredible Edible Cells!
Thirteen-year-old Life Science took on a whole new dimension when we created plate-sized models of the cell and its parts out of sugar-saturated candy! We began with lime flavored green jelly set inside a zip-lock bag which acted as the cell wall encasing the deliciously gelatinous cytoplasm. The boys used fruit-by-the-foot strips to create... »
Rigorous Reading Rivalries!
The thirteen year old Reading and Language Arts class has embarked on a challenging assignment to see which half of the class can burn through 25 000 pages of free reading material the quickest. The class has been divided into two teams that are competing against each other to see which half can devour... »
How Much For That Pig?
Ancient Mesopotamia has been an exciting and intriguing blast into the past for the twelve-year-old Cultural Studies Class. In our discussions of how surplus agriculture led to the development of civilized societies and was the ignition switch for trade and consequent development we decided to take it into our own hands by trying out... »
