Science Day!

Our middle & high school students spent Wednesday doing science experiments.

Here Miray is listening for the sound waves to travel through the string attached to the coat hanger he's hitting against objects.

Ms. Kenithia is helping the girls test liquids (soda, lemon juice, club soda) to see what is an acid and what is a base.

All of our students participate in four science experiments each school year.

What was your favorite science project to do as a kid? Leave us a comment and tell us about it!

Spring Break Art Fun!

This week was spring break! As we have for many years, we partnered with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts to provide our students an art experience while they were out of school. The Frist Center has an Art Trunk program that sends us three fun art projects that correlate to their current art exhibit at the museum. So this week we learned about Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali.

Students used oil pastels to create their own Impressionist art on Monday.

Tuesday they made a collage to resemble a Picasso Cubist work.

And Wednesday, students used watercolor and collage to create a surrealist picture.

Thursday, all of those that participated went to the Frist Center to see the actual paintings they studied!

Adult Computer Classes Coming Soon!

Beginning March 28th, the Learning Center will be hosting computer classes for adults each Friday at 1:00pm for 10-12 weeks. Taught by two of our favorite volunteers, Jim & Rebecca, students will start at the beginning learning parts of the computer and move into word processing and, maybe even Excel. Our hope is to provide our students with the skills they need to get the job that will move them into the life they've wanted to lead.

Space is still available for 3 or 4 more students, so if you know someone who is interested, please have them contact us at the center before the 28th!

Spring Break Volunteers

This week we had visitors from the University of Mary Washington's BCM! They came on the perfect week since our Vanderbilt students were on spring break and we were very short on tutors! They helped us with homework, in the computer lab, and with our enrichment activities!

Here are some pictures of their week!

Our New Look

What do you think about the new look of our blog? It was just time for a change! Let us know what you think. And let us know what you'd like to see on our blog in the future!