Spanish Lessons

Westshire students in grades one through four recently completed a 4-week series of half-hour Spanish lessons. The sessions were led on Tuesday afternoons by students from the Mountain School, under the direction of Comfort Halsey Leckerling. Another series of lessons will be offered at Westshire during the Mountain School's Spring Term. Pictured below are third-grade students participating in the final lesson.

 

 

Dry Ice Stimulates Fourth Graders

Montshire Museum Teacher Mike Fenzel came to Westshire on November 14 to present a captivating lesson on the properties of dry ice. The session also was the final lesson in our States of Matter Unit. After having experimented with some basic changes of state in which heat drives the changes (ice to water to gas (melting and evaporation) and then reversing the process by using ice water to show condensation (vapor to liquid) and then building mini-freezers to turn water to ice (freezing), students were confronted with a solid (dry ice) that skipped the liquid phase entirely and turned right into a gas. Students learned that this process is known as sublimation. They were fascinated by the process and enjoyed observing the various experiments.

Experimenting with Stream Tables at the Montshire Museum

On October 20, third-grade students from Westshire and Samuel Morey visited the Montshire Museum to model erosion and other aspects of river systems on the museum's stream tables. The students also enjoyed visiting the new exhibits on the main museum floor. When we were done in the museum, we took advantage of the fine weather to eat under the big tent above the water park.