December Highlights
We had an exciting end to December with a grade-wide Design Day. Students were tasked with building levees and trying to prevent water from flowing past the levee. We related our project to the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers from our study of Mesopotamia. Last week we welcomed visiting author Mark Peter Hughes to Rashi. He talked about the importance of creating likable characters and his big message to the students was, "show, don't tell." Our students had a chance to do some writing with Hughes, and in the new year will get the chance to write their own short story.