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March 2019
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Archives
March 2019
Veterans Day |
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Awesome Community.
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Our school art website on Artsonia has been updated on this snow day! Artsonia is an online art gallery,where Ms. Black photographs all the students artwork. She has tried to send emails to all parents to get permission to have your students artwork to be viewed online. Purchases with your child's work can be ordered, and a portion goes to our school. This helps me get new supplies to use in the art room with the kids. Purchases are not necessary though, but it is a great way to maintain e-portfolios. We have currently raised almost 106$ this year in funds. If you have not be contacted about Artsonia, please email Ms. Black([email protected]).
This month many of our students will be looking at artwork mad eby African Americans in celebration of Black History Month. The 1st graders are looking at Alma Woodsey Thomas, who was originally an art teacher and began to make work in her older years. The 2nd graders are writing stories to go along with their Cave Paintings as part of their current PYP/IB Unit. The 3rd graders are starting a Project Based Learning project in collaboration with Mrs. Au (EEE Teacher) and are learning the traditional Chinese Symbols for parts of the school and will be making clay tiles to be hung up around the Office, Cafeteria, and Bathrooms. The 4th graders are learning about the Underground Railroad and the significance of Harriet Tubman as she helped lead many slaves to freedom. They are creating freedom quilts using codes that were used along the Underground Railroad trail out of paper. The 5th graders are learning about the Geometric Designs painted by the women of the Ndebele Tribe in South Africa. They will be painting and doing some color theory.
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Tuesday, February 12th, several students from Manor View's advanced string groups spent their day at Meade High School for an all day string festival. Students from every Meade feeder elementary school were challenged to learn four songs, rehearse them during the school day, and showcase their hard work at a concert that night. This year the students worked with Mrs. Vanderwagon, the MacArthur orchestra teacher, and tackled four songs throughout the day. In years prior, the groups were only able to pull off three songs. This speaks highly of the talent of this years students. They focused, persevered, learned, and laughed throughout the day before putting on an amazing performance that night for friends and family. Thank you James, Katherine, Asher, Nicci, and Rahami for a wonderful day of music and all of your hard work. One of my favorite moments was the look on their faces that night when the high school orchestra played. Every child lit up with joy and fascination as they listened and pondered if their musical carrier will one day bring them to that level. Music is all around us, it is a form of communication and meditation, with music, great things will happen.
We recently celebrated our students who earned SOARing for 85% of their days present in the 2nd marking period. We rolled out the red carpet, literally, and had a VIP celebration party! There was music and dancing, a photo booth with a photographer, balloons, and prizes! The kids had a great time!
Now that we are into our 3rd marking period it's time for us to start planning for our next celebration! This marking period we are challenging our students to work for SOARing 90% of the days they are present to earn an invite to the next incentive party. Our goal is to encourage our students to make positive choices and begin to self monitor their behaviors. |
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