Almost 50 families (yes that’s over 150 proud King Lions!) mixed and mingled over artisanal pizzas and happy hour beverages at Mixed Co on Friday Nov 3, raising over $2,000 for our school (Mixed Co gave 100% of the ticket sales to King!). Special thanks to King parents Linsday Kennedy (owner of Mixed Co) for hosting and Sara Stein for the SoLA raffle bundle.
Check out Mixed Co at www.mixedcompanyla.com
and SoLA at www.sistersoflosangeles.com
In Ms. Munoz’s English classes, students worked in teams to create their Eco Warrior narrative essays. They brainstormed ideas, incorporated narrative elements of writing which included an environmental theme, shared their writing in stages with other classmates, created their 3-D characters for their stories, presented their projects to class, and wrote meaningful feedback for their classmates after reading final drafts of essays. Students also filmed their essay reflections using Flipgrid, and added their projects to their tech portfolios.
In Science, students designed and created 3D atom models of the first 18 elements. Also, researched the history of the element and its uses.
The Enrich L.A.’s Garden Ranger program, along with the ESM garden and food classes, would like to thank Bakers Will Bake for their generous offerings of scrumptious baked goods at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market on Sunday, October 22. Thanks to bakers from Friends and Family, Proof, Village Bakery, Mixed Co, Bub and Grandma, Nickel Diner, Little Flower, Valerie Confections, Sqrl, Cake Monkey, Milo and Olive, Bestia, Red Bread, Sugarbird, Craft LA, Huckleberry, Heirloom LA, Little Dom’s, Salt’s Cure, Clark Street Bread, The Gourmandise School, Superba, Hatchet Hall, and more. Together these tasty treat offerings brought $5,700 to our garden programs! Let’s show our support to them as well. Holidays are coming, and there are many mouthwatering baked goods ready for your feast!
The Guerrilla Curators are a group of King artist girls interested in drawing attention (in the hopes of inspiring change) to gender inequity in the arts. They are sponsored by a Girls Build LA Grant written by Ms.Guthrie and Ms. Roth. Monthly art interventions are planned and all will be documented on their website: www.guerrillacurators.com. The first, a flash flower installation, took place on October 30, 2017 in the breezeway. The girls arranged orange and yellow marigolds along with posters featuring their self-designed logo and statistics loaned to the project by the Women’s Museum in Washington, D C., to offer students a brief infusion of beauty carefully tied to an activist issue on a cloudy October morning. Students passing through the breezeway on their way to classes gathered the flowers and took them away. Isabel Perdomo Magarin and Pascale Sifantus, ESM students, are members of the Guerrilla Curators.
This past week, Ms. Cutler’s 8th grade science class designed, built, and tested catapults. This NGSS project was designed to introduce concepts of motion and forces, while embedding engineering practices and the principles governing scientific investigations.
May 10th was National Bike to School Day and Thomas Starr King celebrated in style.
Thanks to all who made Bike to School Day a success!!!
The sixth grade ESM received a Havasi Grant to participate in collaborative workshop between the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Audubon Society. Students traveled to Malibu Lagoon State Beach where they studied Estuary Ecology.
During the first week of May, ESM sixth graders set sail with the Top Sail Program in San Pedro. Students boarded brigantines, 110-foot ships. and the adventure began! Students were not merely passengers on this journey, but crew trainees. They raised and trimmed the sails, stood lookout, steered the course they set, and climbed the rigging to furl sails while balancing on foot ropes. A pod of about 25 dolphins swam up to starboard and continued to swim underneath and then surfaced on the port side of the ship. They were incredibly close, and it was an amazing sight. Plus, there were lots of sea lions and pelicans swimming along with the ship. Students sailed the ships out of San Pedro Harbor into the open ocean. It was a very exciting day!
