This year at St. Michael’s, it has been very successful. The students have learned many lessons in school and out. Their goals have been set high for next year………

Plays:

The SMS Drama Group (directed by Mrs. Johnson) put on these plays during Artsfest:

• Pot Boiler/ A play about a play where the actors are the opposite of who they really are and has a horrible director
• My Name Is Leslie/ About a waitress who won’t serve anyone, so the customers starve.
• Words, Words, Words/ About monkeys in a jail cell
• Universal Language/ About a lady who takes lessons with a guy that talks gibberish, and the lady thinks that he’s speaking a real language

Arts

Other displays at Artsfest:

• The Butterfly Project (studio art) hung in the skylight lounge
• Egyptian jewelry (5th grade) clay bracelets, amulets, bangles, rings, and necklaces
• African Bags (4th grade) printed with African- style stamps that they made
• Islands (2nd grade) clay islands
• Fakes & Forgeries (5th grade) Oil pastel copies of famous artist’s works
• Fish (2nd Grade) Clay fish
• Household object Transformation (studio art) manmade objects covered with natural objects
• Birds & Birdhouses (3rd grade) 3D clay birdhouses & colored sketches
• Artist’s cards (Grades 1-7) Collages on playing cards
• Album art Look-alikes (Computer Graphics)
• Bottles & Personality collages (8th grade)
• Spiral Book bio (6th grade) a spiral book with layers that reflect that person’s life
• Shields (6th grade) colored sketches & felt shields on sack material
• 3-D paintings (Tech monkeys)

Performances in Artsfest:

• Mimi’s crew (jump roping, 1st-4th grade & Peter Carellas)
• Chorus/ directed by Ms. Langelo
• A band/ directed by Mr. Manchester
• B band/ directed by Mr. Manchester

Events:

• Travel to Puma City/ 4th grade and 6th grade to Boston to tour the Puma boats
• Hati presentation by Sam Alofsin
• Bouncing Bulldogs/ a jump roping group, very famous and competes in several competitions
• Earth day presentations (Middle School)/contest about the world’s pollution
• Field day (all school)/ Several games with 2 teams white and blue
• Poetry slam (5th grade)/ Went to a coffee house in Newport where the classes presented some of the poems they made
• Greek Feast (5th grade)/ kids would dress up as their god or hero and would create a presentation where they would present it at the lunchroom in front of parents, afterwards eating greek food and deserts
• Bazaar (3rd grade)/ homemade crafts that they would sell
• Battle of the books (4th grade)/ you had to read 15 books and then compete at a school against neighboring places
• Trip to D.C. (8th grade)/ tour trip around D.C
• Egyptian Play (5th grade)/ kids put on on a play about the life of Hatsepshut
• African Festival (4th grade)/ Presentation about different places in Africa and then eat African food
• Geo bee (4th-8th Grade, Winner Steven Deleo!)
• Spelling Bee (4th-8th grade, Winner Tim Howe!)
• Obama’s Inauguration/ Projector showing (live)  the inauguration
• Popsicle towers (8th grade) In science the kids made towers which they then tested the strength of it by putting weights on it. (highest was 700 pounds)
• 6th grade History fair/
• Drama/Tech Marten Luther King Junior show

Kid Sport Stars:

• Ben  (5th grade, skier)
• Jamie  (5th grade, Hockey)
• India  ( 7th grade, Sailing)
• Caroline  (8th grade, Tennis)
• Stathi (8th grade, Tennis)
• Tory  (6th grade, traveled around the world)

Organizations we supported:

• Hati Happy Houses/ Raised enough money to build a Happy House for a homeless family in Hati. We raised 600 dollars.
• Flying Kites/ An orphanage in Kenya, Africa
• Mrs. Martin Transplant Fund/transportation and medical care/ To help a former 3rd grade teacher
• Potter league/ We raised enough money to earn us a plaque
• Martin Luther KIng Center/ Donated cans
• Ophelia foundation/ Donated clothes
• American Heart Foundation/ Raised money from jump roping on Field Day
• We also gave books to kids in South Africa.

The school is collecting clothes to donate to Ophelia for a vintage clothing sale. Please bring any donations to the Mason House lobby. There is a donation box.

Bring in any items for project

Double Sided Math Review Sheet (#24-36)

Thanks to the hard work of all of our student videographers, there is now a full channel of performances on Vimeo.

Just go to http://vimeo.com/channels/artsfest to see some of the performances.

Study for test tomorrow on “Time”

Test tomorrow and Thurs. on Chapter 7

Grade 6 finish reading about outer planets.
Questions page 101, 1 a,b,c,d.
2.a
Please use complete sentences.

Grade 5
no homework unless you owe me some work.

Quiz  Scientists,sun and solar system.

Field guides due Wed.

Finish chapter IX and do questions 7-15 for extra credit

http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=1

Use the web sites above and your text books to review for test on Parts of Speech on Thursday

Memorize all common prepositions
Read and complete your literature circle sheets

Review for exam.

Review p.62-72

Work on field guide, due Wed.

spa 6 – read p. 395 and 429 in Spanish First Year

spa 7 – exam on WED. Study maps p 422-423, I am available at 1:30 tomorrow for questions.

Please type or edit any notes, paragraphs etc you need to finish for your group project.

1. Pink Grammar Book pgs. 97 & 98 (identify all words in sentence)
2. Literature Circle Assignment due Wed.

Grammar: memorize A & B prepositions and Do ex. A top of pg123
literature circles: read group assignment and do sheets

Test Wed-Thurs. on Chapter 7
Do workbook pgs. 70-71
Do review pages in text pgs. 244-245

Book about “Seasons” due tomorrow
Study for test on “TIme” on Weds.