Amber Band takes flight!

Last week was our first week as the Amber Band, and so we took time to get to know one another a bit better. We wrote our group agreement, completed design challenges, and played TASK. Each of us set personal, academic, and social goals for the year.We'll be working with Indigo Band for the first Arc to help us build a bigger community. Phillip and I want to make sure the kids get a chance to build friendships outside of their band, while still making sure that kids get solid community building time within their smaller bands as well. Ambigo, as our Amber and Indigo combo is commonly referred to, have been working through creative constraints in various teams while learning the importance of communication and collaboration. Kids worked in pairs to create a parachute in the wind tunnel that Gever built. Then they worked in triads to tinker with cardboard sculptures. This week it's all about kites! Kite Week will be an opportunity for a majority of the bands at BWX to explore the movement of kites by air. We'll be learning about the history of kites, geometry of kites, making kites from scratch, reading Dragonwings together, going to SFMOMA to learn about how the Jet and Space Age affected art and culture, visiting a kite store in Chinatown, and flying kites together as a school on Bernal Hill. So much to do this week, and I'm looking forward to seeing where the wind takes us!