DVUSD News - Around Our Schools September 6-10, 2010
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DVUSD News - Around Our Schools September 6-10, 2010
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September 13th 2010
Around Our Schools
September 6-10, 2010
Deer Valley Elementary Schools
Arrowhead is offering a variety of Community Education extra curricular activities for students. Classes include AIT Sports, Cheerleading, Chess, Drama, Hip Hop, Karate, and Keyboarding. To view a list, visit the school website, arrowhead.dvusd.org.
Bellair
Mrs. Virginia Chaves’ 6th grade students developed 3-D models and posters that display the layers of the Earth from the crust to the core. These projects are on display in the library for all students and staff to see. This activity was an extension of a recent lesson about Plate Tectonics where students demonstrated the movement of the Earth's plates using graham crackers and frosting.
Constitution Week, September 17 - 23, will be recognized with a variety of activities which include:
- Bookmarks with the Constitution Preamble will be distributed to K-3 grade students
- Pocket Constitutions will be distributed to students in grades 4 - 6
- Bellair Student Council activities
Bellair PTA just completed a membership drive that included two free Diamondbacks game tickets for every new membership application completed at the Bellair "Core Knowledge Curriculum Night" held this month.
Canyon Springs
Canyon Springs students are learning a variety of interactive and engaging lessons from in-depth history projects to hands on thunderstorm art projects. This week’s art lessons include:
- 1st graders are busy learning their primary and secondary colors and organic and geometric shapes while creating a drawing about new plants.
- 2nd graders are also learning about color shades and creating a weather collage using crayon resist with watercolors.
- 3rd graders are creating landscapes to place their radio tower in and drawing different radios throughout history receiving radio waves! All of these ideas will be combined in a collage on sound waves and a brief understanding of the history of the radio.
- 4th graders are drawing a safe place for a thunderstorm with a border that has illustrations of symbols explaining their story through art.
- 5th graders are back in the Renaissance era learning about Leonardo Da Vinci and testing his standardized proportions for the human body before they begin a portrait of themselves.
- 6th graders are creatively expressing wild waves and furious winds of a hurricane in a drawing.
- 7th graders are creating self radial name designs, a "Handscape" and learning the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. In between projects they are creating sculptures - non-representational plaster fabric masks, foam stamps, woven belts, fimo clay objects, and eventually a wolf made of branches.
Desert Mountain
Desert Mountain celebrated their second annual "Goal Day" on Friday, September 3 with a school wide parade. Each student developed his or her own academic goals for the year and recorded the goals in a student portfolio. The students selected one of their goals to carry in the parade and then the goals were all deposited in a "Goal Keeper" container at the conclusion of the parade. Classrooms teachers carried posters displaying class goals. The class goals will be displayed in classrooms and progress recorded. Every student and staff member participated in the parade. At the end of the school year, the school will celebrate student completion of their goals.
Esperanza
Esperanza students are participating in the "Make Your Day - Lobo Leadership Program", their new student Character Education program.
Highland Lakes
Highland Lakes will be instituting an after-school homework lab for students. The purpose of the homework lab is to provide a supervised environment for students to work on assignments. A teacher and National Honor Society students will be present to assist students with various subjects. Registration takes place every quarter throughout the school year. For more information call 623-376-4300.
Las Brisas
Las Brisas students voted on Tuesday, September 1 for Student Council Officers. Thirty-nine students ran for office. Below is the list of 2010-11 elected student officials:
President - Ryan Ardelt, 6th grade
Vice President - Maria Leising, 6th grade
Secretary - Serenity Mitchell, 5th grade
Treasurer - Austin Macosky, 6th grade
The first Patriotic Ceremony of the school year was held on Friday, September 3. Students as well as parents and school staff met on the playground at 8:15 am to participate in the ceremony. Students recite the Preamble, the Pledge of Allegience, and sing Lee Greenwoods' "God Bless the USA -Proud to be an American" song. Patriotic Ceremonies are held on the first Friday of the month as well as Constitution Day.
Mountain Shadows
Mountain Shadows students are studying about bones. In PE classes students are learning 17 of the major bones of the body starting with the Cranium. Students are learning one bone a week starting with the Cranium and ending with the Scapula.
New River
Barnes and Noble at Happy Valley Town Center will be sponsoring a “book fair” for New River throughout the day on Friday, September 17. A percentage of the net sales for the day will be donated to the school.
The New River Choir will perform and story time will begin with staff members reading a story beginning at 6 p.m. Barnes and Noble will also be showcasing students' artwork. Parents will have an opportunity to purchase books from teacher wish lists that can be used to in classrooms.
Congratulations to this year’s PTSA officers.
President: Jana Wild, Vice President: Carla Aragon, Secretary: Cydni Ambrosio,
Treasurer: Pam Metzger, Teacher Liaison: Karen Hynes
Sierra Verde
Sierra Verde second grade teachers hosted a "Mom's Night Out" on Tuesday, September 7 at Mike's Rigatoni Bistro. The purpose of this event was to get all the second grade mothers together to get to know one another and create a strong home school connection.Sierra Verde recently held a special jump rope assembly for students on Wednesday, September 8 with jump roper Jill Strong and her team. This assembly tied into the current P.E. focus of the benefits of jumping rope for a healthy body.
Sierra Verde is planning a detailed celebration for Constitution Day on Friday, September 17. Below is a list of activities students will be participating in:
- Band students will be performing the Star Spangled Banner.
- Chorus students will be performing "This is America" and "Allegiance Rap."
- Art students will be introduced to a few paintings that were created to document history (constitution meetings, portraits of senators who signed the law) in the past.
- SAGE students will view short Discovery Education Streaming clips about the importance of the Constitution and further class discussion will give students the opportunity to communicate what the Constitution means to them.
- Kindergarten students will be playing a "Constitution Day Match Game."
- 1st grade students will discuss what laws are and why leaders and laws are needed, watch video clips, and create their own Constitution replicas.
- 2nd grade students will be creating their very own classroom constitution, watching a Brain Pop Jr. video on George Washington, and discussing community rights, responsibilities, and laws and creating a classroom Constitution.
- 3rd grade students will be studying the "U.S. Constitution and Amendments" and creating a poster about how they have benefited from the freedoms embedded in the Constitution.
- 4th grade students will be learning how to use sign language to sign the preamble to the Constitution and creating an acrostic poem using the word "Constitution" after having a class discussion about the importance of and process of ratifying the constitution.
- 5th grade students will perform a readers’ theater that will instill a deeper meaning of the constitution.
- 6th grade students will analyze the Preamble of the United States Constitution in small groups, create charts which explain the phrases used in the preamble and provide real world examples of these concepts.
- 7th grade students will analyze, review and discuss the guidelines for adding a new amendment to the Constitution and work in small groups to brainstorm possible problems/solutions and generate ideas for a 28th amendment as PowerPoint presentations.
- 8th grade students will create visual representations of the Seven Principles of the Constitution in small groups.
Sierra Verde will be hosting a Scholastic book fair workshop in the library on Tuesday, Sept 21. The library will be closed from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sierra Verde Community Crossing Guard and Continuous Chest Compression Training will be Wednesday, September 22 in the Media Center from 9:30-11:30a.m. Community members are invited to attend this training in partnership with the City of Glendale to help keep children safe.
Deer Valley High Schools
Boulder Creek, Deer Valley, and Sandra Day O’Connor
Congratulations to the following CTE instructors: Jeff Howard, Sandra Day O’Connor HS; Jayme Fitzpatrick, Deer Valley HS; and Michelle Coots, Boulder Creek HS. Each instructor’s students were among the top scorers in the state on the CTE State Assessment administered in the spring 2010.
Boulder Creek High School received state-wide recognition for their CTE students' work in Web Development. The Career and Technical Education Skill Standards Assessment System had 49 End-of-Program Assessments this spring. The standards are developed by industry and business, based on national and international benchmarks. The assessments are based on these standards.
Boulder Creek HS has implemented a new student peer tutoring program. The inaugural group of peer facilitators includes 16 student tutors who help students with special needs in their class on a daily basis providing academic and behavioral support to increase academic performance and student success.
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