Guests at school in De Soto get star treatment for eclipse viewing

Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org | twitter: @josephkenny2

Students from Holy Spirit School in Maryland heights watched the total solar eclipse at St. Rose of Lima School in DeSoto, Missouri.

Seventh-grader Milly Patterson taught her fellow students and even her principal a maneuver to get a look at the effect of the eclipse.

Milly interlocked her fingers, a trick her dad taught her, to create an image of the sun — a crescent moon shape as a result of the moon partially blocking it. Earlier, her principal at Holy Spirit School in Maryland Heights, Jill Gould, used a colander to create dozens of crescent shapes.

The Holy Spirit School students took two buses to St. Rose of Lima School in De Soto for the viewing. It was a wise decision, all agreed afterward.

read more

Feed: