Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Luncheon

Thank you to all who attended and helped with set up and clean up of our first ever Mid-Autumn Moon Festival lunch at Fayston School!  Thank you to Cheryl for a delicious meal! 

Making lanterns for the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Third and fourth graders made strings of paper lanterns to decorate for our school's celebration of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. 

Fifth and sixth graders made paper mâché lanterns using balloons and tissue. 

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Fayston School celebrates

The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Monday, October 6th, 2014

Join us to give thanks, honor the full moon and celebrate the harvest with a special picnic lunch shared with friends and family.

Adult lunch $3.75

R.S.V.P. to cjoslin@wwsu.org

11:30 grades K-3 / 12:00 grades 4-6

The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival celebrated in China, Vietnam, Taiwan and other Asian countries.  It takes place during the full moon in September or October.

During this festival, people gather with their families and friends, offer thanks for the harvest or other good fortune and send their wishes and prayers to the moon.  Other traditions include an outdoor nighttime picnic, with special treats called Mooncakes, and other traditional foods.  At the gathering, people display colorful lanterns to light up the night.

At the Fayston School, we will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Monday, October 6.  Students will read Thanking the Moon, by Maya Lin, to learn about the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and prepare for this event.

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Potstickers with Stir-Fried Vegetables

Mooncakes

Sesame Noodles

Fortune cookies

Pears and Grapefruit

Tea

Dot Day is coming to Fayston School!

International Dot Day is a day to celebrate CREATIVITY, COURAGE and COLLABORATION.  During the week of September 15th, all students will create artwork inspired by the message in Peter Reynolds' book The Dot:

"Make your mark and see where it takes you!" 

And Remember... On Monday, September 15th, WEAR DOTS! 

Let's see which classroom has the most Dot Day Spirit! 

Hour of Code meets Art Class

http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/play

Today we learned how to use the program Math Art to draw cool designs using simple coding. This is a great example of how math, technology and art can come together.  I really had to dust off my math thinking cap to remember what I know about angles in order to complete these tough puzzles. Clink the link above to explore coding and try Math Art or some other the other Hour of Code games on the Tynker site. 

Book Arts with Guest Artist Elissa Campbell

Third and fourth graders are working on an integrated art/language arts/ technology project during our integrated art time. The idea was born from the children's book  "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" by William Joyce. In this story, a man writes his hopes, dreams and memories.  Students responded by writing short memoirs of their most vivid memories. They also have been working on art journaling around the themes in their writing. 

In order to create a very special piece that combines their writing and art, we invited guest artist Elissa Campbell to our art class.  She is a professional book artist from Montpelier. She took time out of her very busy pre-holiday schedule to teach us how to make a simple handmade book and give an introduction to art journaling. 

See more of Elissa's work here:  

Here are our finished books.  We used beautiful handmade paper for the covers. 

Kindergarten Photo Project

Kindergarten artists shared the photos that they edited and looked for similarities and differences between their original photos and the edited versions.

Kindergarten Photography Project

Kindergartners used our new iPads to take pictures around our school.  They used viewfinders to scout out their shots.  We looked for examples of patterns and textures, close up and far away objects and looking up and looking down.