March 14, 2012…. Pi Day Celebration!

The third and fourth grade looping classrooms of Robin Hughes and Sara Barend from Fisher School celebrated Pi Day on March 14.  In any circle big or small, if you take the circumference, and divide it by the diameter, you get an answer of about 3.14. We call that value pi (the Greek letter).  The date of March 14 (3/14) is set aside every year by mathematicians to celebrate this irrational number.

The third and fourth grade students celebrated this math holiday with many different activities.  They made pi bracelets, with each color representing a different digit in the first 24 digits of pi.  They also constructed and decorated circles with various diameters and then computed the circles' circumferences using pi.  A very large paper chain, representing the first 400 numbers of pi was constructed and then displayed in the auditorium, stretching three-fourths of the way around the room.  Everyone enjoyed the story of Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi while eating "circular" snacks brought from home.  Finally, at day's end a math song was sung celebrating pi and its value to our mathematical world.

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Harney Irish Step Dancers perform at Fisher School

On Friday, March 16, local dancers from Liam Harney's dance school performed at Fisher School.  Sponsored by Fisher School's PAC, students watched the dancers perform reels, slip jigs, and hornpipes to traditional Irish music.  To the delight of the students, dancers danced in both their soft shoes and hard shoes.  Students were especially impressed with their classmates that performed that morning.  All Irish eyes were smiling!

 

Fisher School PAC

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Navajo Sand Painting at Fisher School

Two artists from the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset recently came to Fisher School to work with Mrs. Hirschfeld's fourth grade art classes.  A wonderful hands-on art project took place that enhanced their visual art and social studies unit on Southwest American people.  Using authentic materials, the students created sand paintings that followed the age-old Navajo tradition and symbols.  Turtles, bears, snakes and thunderclouds were popular subjects, as was Kokopelli, the flute player and the image of the sun.  The students did a fantastic job creating these works of art, complete with borders that also incorporated Native American traditional designs.  The program was funded by the Parents' Advisory Council, PAC.

 

Joanne Hirschfeld

Fisher School

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