This week, for our monthly HAT day this Friday, February 5th, students can wear a hat (THIS FRIDAY) for a $1.00 donation toward our Flood Relief efforts. We will also be collecting $$$ for Haiti. Please announce all this week and especially Thursday afternoon:)
MANY THANKS!
In order to give students a little more time on the song competition, I am extending the deadline for all songs to Wednesday (2/3). There have been questions and technical problems we needed to work out.
Thanks.
As a culminating activity to technical writing, I am having a competition to see who can write the best song as a class anthem. The students are going to a website that has wordless music files, freeplaymusic.com (Link located in my Blogroll at the right side of my blog), and they are trying to find music to which they can write words. Students are going to need to save their sound bytes onto a flash drive so that they can bring the music in to class on Monday.
They then need to write lyrics to the music they have chosen. These lyrics need to be school appropriate, and talk about who we are and what we do in their personal Language Arts class. I am hoping that the songs will encapsulate who we are as a class.
After hearing all the songs on Monday, 2/1/10, we will choose the best song, as a class, and and that group will record their song to be placed on my blog.
This activity is not going to be graded, and students do not need to participate if they do not want to. This is solely for bragging rights, and for the students to have fun, while working on their technical writing skills.
Writers of Promise Writing Contest
The Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project would like to invite you and your students to participate in the 2010 Leslie Walker Writers of Promise Contest in honor of our late friend and inspiring writer.
This contest is open to students in grades 6-12 beginning in February. All entries are due by February 26, 2010
Winning students will receive cash awards and an invitation to be honored at the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project’s Annual Banquet in early May.
For details, go to: http://www.kmwp.org
Information Packet: Writers of Promise-Kennesaw Mountain Writing Contest
Attention: McClure students & your families
You are invited to join us in celebrating Cultural Arts Night!
Where: McClure Middle School
We need all families, students or groups of students who would like to present their country of origin, somewhere you have traveled to or a culture that you have studied to be a part of this great night!
You can be as creative as you want to be!
Cultural Arts Night will include:
point presentations, a skit, native dance, native sport, food samples or
anything about your country that you would enjoy sharing with everyone
(We need donations of international food & international chocolate.)
We will be collecting donations of peanut butter & jelly for Must Ministries!
brought to you by your PTSA!
Please contact us: Patty Reinhardt @ reinrpar@comcast.net, 770-421-1782 (H), 678-640-5718 (C) &
Deanna Slone @ Deannaslone@msn.com, 678-290-8574 (H), 678-429-8144 (C)