Welcome to Searingtown School's
Walls That Talk
 Imagine if we could build walls that talk about our different cultures (refer to
Culture Walls). Imagine
if we could study those walls and other walls around the world. Imagine how these walls could unite us instead of divide us.
Searingtown fifth-graders IMAGINE new holidays that represent the spirit of America...
What's New
June 2004: Want to learn a little about how Walls That Talk
came to be? Watch Walls
That Talk Movie! Requires QuickTime plug-in.
Get
QuickTime (free download).
 April 2004:
Walls That Talk receives
ISTE SIGTEL
ONLINE LEARNING AWARD - 1ST PLACE!!
Students
from
Old York School,
Branchburg,New Jersey,
participate in
Searingtown's 5th grade
Federal Holidays WebQuest, where they imagine new holidays
representing the spirit of america!
Students from Primary School Petko R. Slaveikov in Vratza,
Bulgaria contribute peace poems
in celebration of
Spring Day 2004 in Europe.
Walls That Talk 2004
Photo Gallery Updated
PhotoJam now online!
(adobe acrobat
required).
5/03....5th
graders are putting the
finishing touches on their research websites as well as their
art mural...4th graders are in the process of writing poetry about walls,
both real and figurative and finishing their digital
self-studies...3rd graders are beginning a study of the Japanese number system and
are creating flags of the many nations that makes up our
Searingtown heritage...2nd graders are working on creating 'shoe-art' based on their study
of multicultural fairy tales...1st
graders are working on their 'Hello World'
self-portraits which incorporate art and research of foreign
languages ... Kindergarten has
been creating walls of their own out of blocks and legos.
As you can see, we are quite busy and productive!!
4/1/03...Professional Photographer Michael Fairchild begins working with 4th grade student apprentices as they create digital posters of themselves using Adobe Photoshop.
3/5/03...Fifth graders invited to present Walls That Talk project at C.W. Post's Celebration Day on May 20th. Fifth graders will also have the opportunity to work with Wall of America artist on artwork
which will be part of the Wall of America mural! Details to follow...
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 Photographer
Michael Fairchild working with fourth grade students on their
digital self-studies.
Dorothea Basile, our visiting Art Historian, begins the art history component of the project, in order to celebrate different cultures around the world.
Watch video clip
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