"Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

As summer begins, I want to commend the boys on embracing the symbolism of our class's banner. The white demonstrates the strength and pride associated with all of the boys' classes, and the black embodies the solid foundation they will receive in our lower school. These characteristics were shown throughout this year and will be carried into Tenth Age. The shape of the banner symbolized the growth of the class emotionally, socially, academically, and athletically. This development was evident throughout Ninth Age, and I cannot wait to see them take on their leadership roles next year. Enjoy the explorations, dreams, and discoveries of the summer, and I will see you next fall!

Medieval Times Pictures

Medieval Times Project

The boys have been so excited to start the Medieval Times project! Many have already found their facts and are planning their visuals or thinking about their presentations. The topics this year are ranging from trebuchets to knighthood, and I cannot wait to see the performances and learn from our Ninth Age history teachers!

Math on Mother's Day!

Here is a little Mother's Day math challenge from IXL Learning:

Medieval Times

The boys had an incredible time at Medieval Times! We will be starting out Medieval Unit and discussing the Medieval Times project in history this week! 

Biome Research

The boys continue their research, writing, and collaboration this week as they learn about the climate of their individual biomes.

Thank you!

Thanks to the many Calvert runners who came out for the Kilometers for Kids race to support Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital.

Delicious Sundaes!

We has a terrific time celebrating the great ice cream sundae debate. Be sure to ask your son which city got his vote!

A Few of Our Favorite Foxes

As we finish up Fantastic Mr. Fox, the students drew some of their favorite characters. 

Pi Day Celebrations

Mr. Holmgren is a huge fan of math! In celebration of Pi Day he was on the receiving end of two pie throws! The students memorized 10 or more digits of Pi, and those with more than 20 were entered for a chance throw the pie!

Congrats to our Ninth Ager who memorize 142 digits!

Iditarod Map

We spent time this week studying the Iditarod map in geography. The boys traced the map and labeled the checkpoints on the both northern and southern routes to share in their folders.

I-Did-a-read

The boys are so excited about the March Reading Madness Iditarod challenge! We aim to read 1,049 minutes this month (ask your son about the significance of the 49). We will track the class's progress in school as the boys track it at home. Thanks for your support!

Fantastic Mr. Fox

We are beginning to read Fantastic Mr. Fox in reading class. Here is the Fantastic Mr. Fox Audiobook if you are interested in reading along!

History Test 31-33

Our next history test covering chapters 31-33 will be on Thursday, March 6. In preparation we will be creating our own Jeopardy game on Jeopardy Labs (Click here for the game, we are almost finished!). I have also created a Prezi for the students to use for review. These chapters cover the Punic Wars and Rome's rise to power as the "New Champion of the World."

International Week

Many thanks to one of our generous families that brought in many delicious treats to celebrate Korea Day!

Hopper Cricket Game

Another terrific Hopper Cricket event!!

Distributive Property

We began learning about the distributive property yesterday in class using manipulatives and creating models of number sentences. We will spend more time with them today!

Cowboy and Cowgirl Games

We created and played Jeopardy after finishing our most recent cowboy and cowgirl story. Feel free to click here to play at home! We also found a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" game from another class, feel free to play this game as well!

Garrett Grant Presentation

We enjoyed sharing information from our Garrett Grant trip with the students today! Feel free to check out the Prezi to see some of our pictures or visit the blog we kept during the trip!

Reading Note Taking

Today we worked in partners to find facts in our expository nonfiction text. The students did a terrific job together!

Readers' Theater

We visited Mrs. Bennett's reading group to watch their Readers' Theater. They did a terrific job!