The seventh graders explored Latin American culture with a special Latin American "Outside-The-Box (OTB) Day" on Friday, February 26. The girls actively participated in activities during the day including topography, leyendas, and birthday glyphs.
The girls worked together to create maps of South and Central America, according to the appropriate survey of the land. Parts of the topographical map surveyed areas of mountains, water, and desert.
In another classroom, girls expressed their creative writing skills by crafting leyendas (legends) with Ms. Voulgaris and Ms.Laco and drawing birthday glyphs with Ms. Mandel and Bosc. The birthday glyphs were written in Mayan numbers and engraved in metal in a method called repousse.
The girls were also fortunate to experience part of the day outside of the classroom at the Museum of the American Indian and visited the Inka Road: Engineering an Empire exhibit.
The day finally wrapped up in the Beebe Black Box Theater for a viewing of "Cracking the Maya Code" and closed with personal reflections from the day.
