NEWTOWN—On Friday, March 12, 5-8th graders at St. Rose School participated in activities to celebrate Pi Day.
Students in Mrs. Cicarelli’s 6th, 7th, and 8th grades created a “Pi-Line, Skyline” project. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 around the world and the Greek letter “π” is the symbol used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, approximately 3.14159. 
Students shared in a mini-lesson discussing pi and translated the famous number into their very own artwork. Students created a vertical bar graph, where each bar’s height corresponds to each digit of Pi. The completed graph gives the impression of a city skyline, which the students then colored in to enhance the buildings.
As a special treat, 7th-graders received individual-sized apple pies (donated by generous parents) to eat while they worked on their Pi-Line projects.
Students in Mrs. Bokuniewicz’s 5th-grade class were challenged to name as many digits in Pi as they could—winners named as many as 151! It was an innovative, engaging and memorable lesson.
