DVUSD News - Around Our Schools October 4-8, 2010
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DVUSD News - Around Our Schools October 4-8, 2010
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October 7th 2010
Around Our SchoolsOCTOBER 4-8, 2010
Deer Valley Elementary Schools
AnthemParents can watch a video of Anthem’s paper airplane week. To watch a sneak peek go to http://karenpeterson.weebly.com/videos.html.
Bellair Mrs. Jamiolkowski’s third grade art students learned about the weaving traditions of the Navajo Indians. The students wove small rugs simulating these ancient traditions. This lesson integrates language arts, math, social studies and art, an excellent example of Core Knowledge curriculum offered at Bellair Elementary. The PTA Fundraiser begins with a kickoff assembly on Tuesday, October 12. Students will be selling cookie dough and pre-portioned cookies with 40% of the profits going directly to support many projects at Bellair.
Students in Pre-School to 3rd grade will be participating in a Character Counts assembly provided by Ronald McDonald and the McDonalds Cooperation on Thursday, October 7.
 In Mrs. Chaves’ class, the 6th graders were doing a Core Knowledge science experiment on Plate Tectonics. They made “mini volcanoes” to find out, “what happens when a volcano erupts?” During the experiment, students observed how baking soda, vinegar, and a plastic bottle worked together to create a “volcano”.Desert Sage Desert Sage students and staff members recently celebrated “Constitution Day” with a program that included songs performed by the Desert Sage chorus and special duet rendition of “America The Beautiful” by PTSA President Carrie Beth Cox, Desert Sage Music Teacher, and Mr. Terry Buffington. A shared reading of the origins and importance of the unique and history filled form of governance was shared by 6th grade students Connor Occhino and Allie Brammer.Diamond Canyon Ten Diamond Canyon teacher names were randomly drawn to win a $1,000 gift card donated by Wal-Mart.GreenbrierGreenbrier Elementary School will host a Scholastic Book Fair in the Media Center beginning Thursday, Oct. 14 through Friday, Oct. 22. Proceeds of the book fair will benefit the school’s library collection and resources.
Parents can now watch a video of Greenbrier second graders singing “This Land Is Your Land” as part of the introduction of the Core Knowledge curriculum. Parents and students are encouraged to check the Greenbrier website, www.greenbrier.dvusd.org/ for new information on school events as well as exciting Core Knowledge activities.
Mountain ShadowsReading Rocks! A+ Book Fairs is coming to Mountain Shadows on Friday, October 15 through Friday, October 22. The Book Fair will be open 8:30 a.m. -3:45 p.m. Friday through Wednesday. On Thursday, a Student Led Conference Day, the Reading Rocks Book Fair will remain open until 7pm. Friday, October 22 is the last day and the fair will close at 1:30pm.
New RiverThe Character Counts Theme for October is Respect. The students will be doing activities to highlight this theme.
New River’s annual Fall Round-up is Saturday, October 16. Contributions of the auction are being collected and plans for the booths are well under way. This is an event that everyone in the community looks forward to and enjoys.
New River Elementary is hosting a fall book fair from Tuesday, October 19- Tuesday, October 26, from 8:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Preview catalogs will be sent home with students the week prior to the fair, highlighting the new books available. On Thursday, Oct. 21, the book fair will be open late for parents and students coming to parent/teacher conferences.
If you would like to volunteer to help with the book fair, please call 623-376-6513. Volunteers receive a discount! For updates on events, see the New River Library website, https://sites.google.com/site/newriverlibrary.
 The New River Choir had their first performance recently at the Barnes and Noble during the New River Book Fair event.Park Meadows Park Meadows first graders received a visit from Midwestern University Dental Students and learned about good dental hygiene. Paseo HillsPaseo Hills invites its community to the PTSA McDonald’s night on Thursday, October 7 from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. at 23rd Avenue and Deer Valley. Paseo Hills teachers and staff will be helping its PTSA raise funds through McDonald’s food and drink sales. Enjoy a shake or buy a burger to raise money for PTSA and Paseo Hills students.
To start off a new year at Paseo Hills, several companies and community organizations helped students with backpacks filled with school supplies. The following companies and community organizations made this possible: Junior Achievement of Arizona, Aviation Communication Surveillance Systems, Discover Financial Services, M.O.M.S. Club of Deer Valley, and Light and Life Church of Deer Valley. Together they have donated over 100 backpacks for Paseo Hills students.
Sierra Verde Sierra Verde students were asked to show their school spirit by participating in Crazy Hair Day on Wednesday, September 22. Sierra Verde 5th and 6th grade students are working together to win a $13,000 Weather Station for the school. To be eligible to win this weather station, the school is required to create a 90 second "commercial" showing why Sierra Verde would be a perfect candidate for this weather equipment. The school is hoping to have the entire student body around the flag pole Wednesday, October 6th saying, "Sierra Verde needs a Weather Bug! YES!!!"
 Fifth grade students are currently learning about:
With purposeful student-driven assessment pieces already built in through the use of technology, Sierra Verde teachers can readily observe their students independently using immediate feedback for self-assessment, practice and knowledge by using clickers. Clickers are used to give students opportunities to test their understanding against their peers in an anonymous way which leads to higher student engagement without the risk of failure.
West Wing Mrs. Wild's first grade students invited their parents to attend a Heroes celebration on Friday, September 17. This celebration was a wrap-up to a two week unit on our country.As part of the unit, students learned about heroes around them in their everyday lives. As a writing project students were asked to pick a hero to write about, define what a hero is, why they chose their hero, and include what they learned from their hero. Students selected a variety of heroes which included parents, police officers, firemen, veterinarians, doctors, and even exterminators. The class enjoyed celebrating their heroes in our everyday lives.
Deer Valley High SchoolsCrossroads Crossroads students went on a field trip to the "Diamond Backs to the Future" Career Day. Students who participated in a writing assignment focused on Persuasive Writing were taken to this event last Tuesday, September 28. Upon their return, the students made a Brag Board to celebrate.Barry GoldwaterThe Barry Goldwater chess team suffered a loss in round four of Region II tournament play. Alhambra won the round 3-2. The BGHS Bulldogs came back with resounding wins in round 5, 5-0 against Trevor Browne High School and round 6, 5-0 against Apollo High School.
Individual Varsity results for the tournament:
Ethan Morgan 3-0
Yaro Pilipenko 2-1
Joel Arcilla Southwick 2-1
Joseph Cross 3-0
Ian Hackett 2-1
Individual Alternate results for the tournament:
Jason Franklin 3-0
Damien Charley 2-1
Alex Fuentes 2-1
Keith Confer 1-2
Craig Adair 1-2
Cameron Oman 1-2
Virgil McArthur 0-3
Overall, Barry Goldwater is 5-1 in Region II. The players will be evaluating their games and setting new goals. The next tournament is Saturday, October 16 at Youngker High School.
Boulder CreekCongratulations to the Boulder Creek students who were selected to perform in the All-State Show/Jazz Choir. Student names are listed below:All State Jazz (20 Students in the choir):
Jordan Woods (Senior)/First Chair Tenor All-State Jazz Choir
Colton Johnson (Senior)/ Fifth Chair Bass All-State Jazz Clinic Choir
All State Show (40 Students in the the choir):
Jordan Woods (Senior)/ 3rd Alternate Tenor
Jacob Woolfenden (Freshman)/ 5th Alternate Tenor
Steven Langenhorst (Junior)/ 1st Alternate Bass
Zack Fitzgerald (Sophmore)/ 4th Alternate Bass
The following students were awarded an Upscale Singer Vocal Scholarship. These students were awarded money to assist them in their private vocal studies. Students are Daphne Sietz (Freshman) 1st Place and Rhainnon Malkow (Senior) 4th Place.
Boulder Creek will host its first concert of the year on Wednesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium.
The Boulder Creek Spiritline will be participating in the Team Wish walk again this year. Please watch for them on Channel 3 this weekend.
Channel 3 is going to be on hand for a live remote from the Ironwood Walk: 7:15am; 7:40; 8:15; 8:40; 9:15; 9:40 in conjunction with Brittany Shipp, weather girl.
Boulder Creek’s Team W.I.S.H. Arizona has raised over $1 million for Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure.
Mountain RidgeThe State Jazz/Show Choir auditions took place Friday, October 1. Nearly 500 students from all around Arizona audition for each of these groups and only ten students per voice part are chosen. These students have worked hard and will be representing Mountain Ridge with pride.
The following Mountain Ridge students were selected:
Show Choir:
Elizabeth Rohrer--soprano
Marqueze Gordon--tenor
Jay McClay--tenor
James Gambino--bass
Jazz Choir:
Sarah Cowan--alto
The All-State Festival will take place at South Mountain High School on Thursday, November 18-20 with the culminating final festival performance being on Saturday, November 20 at 5 p.m.
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