The Upper School Student News is an online publication written by students Alia, Olive, and Lily S., with help from faculty supervisor Jonell.  Pi Day! Pi, Pi! Many people around the world celebrate Pi Day on March 14 (3/14) each year. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The ancient Chinese used 3 as the value of pi about 1650 B.C. The Egyptians improved on the approximation during the AD 100’s. The first Pi Day celebration happened in 1988 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The US House of Representatives designated March 14th a National Holiday in 2009.  We celebrate Pi Day because it is an excellent excuse to learn about pi. Also, pi is just a really cool number. The number pi is 3.14159 etc... Pi has over 1 trillion decimal numbers in it and cannot be written as a simple fraction or decimal. That means it’s an irrational number! The symbol for pi is the Greek letter  𝛑 .   This year on Pi Day, students...

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”- Flora Lewis During the past month, some Upper School 2 Spanish students decided to play the role of a Spanish teacher during their regular Spanish lessons. Each student prepared a lesson to give to their classmates in their group. The lessons varied from Geography, Math, Science, language, cooking, commercials, and dancing. They did it all! My role as a guide was to be a student and join the lesson. All the lessons were given in Spanish with very little English or no English at all. -- “I love the geography of Europe and I love Spanish, so I decided to do my lesson on things I love. I made flash cards, and students matched the names of the countries in English and Spanish. I also asked questions about the location of each country, played World Bingo, and sang a song about South American capitals. Everyone was involved!” - Lillie C. ...