Chinese New Year San Francisco: Big Tables & Lots of Food 2.11-12

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Fifty-five of us met for dinner at the palatial New China Restaurant on Pacific Avenue (see pics 1-8). A smaller group of us met again for breakfast on Sunday morning (see pics 9-13).

Chinese New Year San Francisco: The Parade 2.11

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Twenty 5ers and families rendezvoused in downtown San Francisco for the 2012 Chinese New Year Parade.

Image descriptions: pic1: looking down Grant Avenue and the holiday community market; pics2-8: claiming a good vantage point along the parade route on Kearny Street near Portsmouth Square; pics9-19: taken during the parade.

Extra Credit Lunchtime Film Festival: Images of Africa

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In connection with our current unit, The Artist & the Artifact, students have been invited to attend a lunchtime Africa film festival for extra credit. The documentary films, produced in eight parts by Nature and National Geographic, feature stories from different regions around Africa. Thus far, we have visited the sahel region of West Africa, the rainforests of Cameroon, the coral reefs of Zanzibar, and the deserts of the Sahara.

Letters to Two Old Women Author Velma Wallis

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Writing Assignment

The Artist & the Artifact: Making Thinking Visible

Our current unit is captured, activity by activity, organized by inquiry line, on the walls of the classroom, mixed with student quotes, the intent, in part, to make their thinking visible. Indigenous study groups are noted on a large world wall map, illustrating the range of groups being investigated.