Events
Collagoween
COLLAGOWEEN!!! Was a fun exhibit of local collages, assemblages, cut ups, exquisite corpses and more!!! If it’s fragmented, composited, glued, sewn or strapped together, It may have been on display. Collagoween was an unjuried, all ages show bent on a little holiday mischief and fun.
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Osmosis Lab
The AP biology students learned about osmosis by determining the concentrations of unknown colored solutions.
Panel on Homelessness
For part of our Lycée Day, the entire CHS community had a group Q&A session to discuss issues concerning the homeless population in our area. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Malora Horne from Roanoke City Public Schools, Lee Cook from the Rescue Mission, and Matt Crookshanks from the Roanoke Homeless Assistance Team for providing us […]
Graphing in Algebra 2
The Algebra 2 students are discovering how to graph quadratic functions in vertex form by manipulating the function f(x)=x squared.
Trip to Washington, DC
Several students from Sebastian’s International Relations class and Warren’s World Geography class embarked on an informal self-guided tour of George Washington University. They also saw many nearby points of interest including the White House, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Watergate Complex, the Kennedy Center, and the Organization […]
Calculus Grudge Ball – Take 2
The Calculus class kicked the game up a notch this time and went outside! Madeline managed a mid-air capture while sporting a bunny ear hoodie!
A Visit to the Eleanor D Wilson Museum
Each week the Galleries class visits a new museum. Enjoy these photos from their field trip to the Eleanor D Wilson Museum at Hollins University.
Ant Restaurant
Ant Club opened a restaurant with a variety of courses and they observed the ants to see which foods they preferred.
Llama en Lima
The Spanish class is reading “Llama en Lima” by Katie A. Baker which is a story about the adventures of a llama, a monkey, and a guinea pig who have escaped from a zoo in Lima, Peru. Oliva’s guinea pig named Fritz visited class to learn more about what Cuy has been up to in […]
Macroinvertebrates
Meg‘s Environmental Science class identified and counted macroinvertebrate organisms gathered in experimental leaf pack bags over the past two weeks in Carvin Creek. The class is going to use the data to assess stream quality and learn about habitat characteristics for these little critters.
Mixing It Up In Calculus class
The Calculus class got competitive with a “friendly” game of Grudge ball. The students had to answer questions correctly to earn chances to shoot the ball and eliminate their opponents.
Stitching Club Works On Blankets to Donate
In Stitching Club, co-founders, Eliza G. and Yutika P. are teaching interested students how to crochet every week. Their semester long goal is to make blankets out of plastic yarn that the group will then donate. The club is also a space for other stitching forms and all are welcomed to join.
Fall 2021 Community Service Day with BillionGraves
BillionGraves is the world’s largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. For this community service project, our students contributed by taking headstone images from a local cemetery, and then transcribing the personal information found on the images. The GPS information collected helps others research expansive family histories from […]