Friday, November 29, 2019
A group of Lausanne students are volunteering at the FedEx Family House as part of their service hours for their CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) project.
Juniors, Ayaka and Yuka Kimura '21, Shreya Palakurthi '21 , and Brinnan Lawson '21 Upper School French and Spanish Instructor and Sophomore Advisor Eric Becker are baking for families currently residing at the house.t the FedEx Family House, an extension of LeBonheur Hospital. The juniors are volunteerin...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
To kick-off Thanksgiving break, grandparents and families were invited to Lausanne for the annual Grandparent's Day with family and friends celebration.
The annual event is a favorite among students across grade levels because they get to connect and share their daily learning experience at Lausanne with loved ones.
Families had the opportunity to meet faculty and staff, visit classrooms, learn about current projects and curriculum and watch student-led performances.
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Monday, November 25, 2019
"I like that we are all cooking together," Zaria Jackson '31 said as she finished her turn stirring a pumpkin bread mixture and passed it to her classmate.
Students across first grade spent their morning baking pumpkin and cranberry bread as a part of their math unit on measurement and current PYP unit of inquiry, How We Express Ourselves.
"Students created items that relate to Thanksgiving," First-grade teacher Christina Mewborn said. "We learned th...
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Monday, November 25, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Our Senior Kindergarteners had an exciting day celebrating with the Lausanne community.
The students kicked off their celebrations with the SK Writers' Parade, an annual tradition and senior kindergarten favorite that signifies the completion of their first written work.
Students across Lower School gathered outside their classrooms to greet the senior kindergartners with high-fives and cheers as they proudly walked through the halls holding their stories and chanting "...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
The lower schoolers could barely sit still as they excitedly watched Dr. Frassinnelli move around the room, lighting the burners under beakers filled with popcorn kernels and oil.
Dr. Frassinelli's class was participating in day two of the "Popcorn Percentages" science experiment, in which students test whether Orville Redenbacher or Kroger brand popcorn yields the greater number of popped kernels.
Each team starts with fifty seeds and alternates between brands over two days w...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
This "Teacher Feature" was shared by students in the LynxLink Newspaper Club. Click here to view the original story and to see more of their articles. The interview was done by Minaal Khan '20 and the article was organized for the Lynx Link student newspaper by Zoe Hamblen '20.
Mr. Wilson, one of the two 12th Grade English teachers, has lots more to share than just literary analysis! In this article, the LYNXLINK went on a mission to discover all the interes...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Students from Mrs. Floyd's class have been eagerly preparing to showcase their artistic talents through the Middle School Art Show.
The art gallery will offer paintings inspired by famous artwork and sculptures depicting different insects and amphibians.
"Students in sixth grade were to select a famous artwork past or present and incorporate the Blue Dog within the original painting," Middle School art teacher Geri Floyd said. "Fifth and eighth-graders selected an insect,...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019
The Lausanne Gymnastics Club tumbled their way around campus Saturday during the 2019 Turkey Tumble Meet.
The event was held in Lausanne's Main Gym and consisted of more than 100 competitors from Tennessee and Illinois, with gymnasts ranging from Level one to Level 10 and gymnasts from the Excel Bronze, Silver and Gold divisions.
Seventeen Lausanne students competed in the meet, resulting in multiple awards and new records for the Lynx gymnastics team.
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Saturday, November 16, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Sixth-graders from Ms. Vanzant's science class have been busily studying the Earth's Composition through research and various interactive activities.
The students began by investigating the layers of Earth, the Pangea Theory, the Continental Drift theory and the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
"After building our background knowledge, we began to explore specific movements and transforming boundaries," sixth-grade science teacher Brandi Vanzant said. "We learne...
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Friday, November 15, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Lausanne Fourth-graders are currently learning about the causes and effects of immigration as a part of their PYP unit of inquiry. To help gain a better understanding of the topic, Lausanne families were invited to share their immigration experiences.
In the library, students attentively listened while family members spoke about the different paths they took or their ancestors took to arrive in the United States.
As students listened to the visitors talk about their different ba...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
What's better than snacking alone? Snacking with a friend, of course. Lausanne Middle School students saw an opportunity to cross collaborate with the students in the Lower School utilizing something that they do every day.
The Middle School Snack Shack is a place all middle school students know about. For snack time, students can bring their own snacks or buy one from the snack shack every day from 7:45-8:25 a.m. Items sell from 50 cents to a dollar with proceeds going back into purchas...
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at Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
Lausanne students and veterans filled the seats of the Elder Performing Arts Center this afternoon as we celebrated the annual “We Remember” Veterans Day Presentation.
The ceremony, honoring our veterans, began with the song "In Flanders Field" performed by the Upper School Chorus and followed with an opening statement from Social Studies Department Chair Dr. Rebecca Hodges.
Lausanne’s SGA President, Audrey Chatfield '20, took to the stage to welcome th...
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
We entered the front of a nondescript warehouse in Burbank, California and stood there blinking as our eyes adjusted. A friendly receptionist sat on the other side of the desk, smiling as she asked who we were there to meet.
“Melissa Shepherd,” I explained, and she directed us to the sign-in keypads with a smile.
My daughter, Madeline Smith ’19, was trying to figure out which college to attend in her quest to become an animator. We traveled to California to tou...
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
Lausanne freshmen are currently learning Shakespeare through both reading and performance in their Upper School English class.
The students are currently reading Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. Instead of simply reading the play in a classroom setting, Upper School teacher Heather Clagett took the class to the Elder Performing Arts Center lobby to take turns performing one of the earlier scenes in the play.
"We have been doing this for a few years no...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Lausanne art students in the sixth grade began a sculpture project inspired by Marie Antoinette's eighteenth-century wigs in which they utilized paper as the primary medium.
The class, consisting of eight girls, viewed works created by Russian artist Asya Kozina. Kozina creates lavish wigs and clothing inspired by the eighteenth-century using white paper. Her works are showcased in galleries and fashion shows in Russia.
After the research, the students ...
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