Be sure to check out the newest addition to our upper track area as it winds its way around Perry Park. Parent Julie Buchanan, her daughter Bridget, and some enthusiastic volunteers have installed a Story Walk to the area for all to enjoy. In Julie's own words, " Beginning January 9, 2012, members of Brownie Troop 2380 will be sponsoring a StoryWalk installation on the HP playground. The StoryWalk project combines physical activity with literacy and is an innovative way to get people of all ages to enjoy nature and exercise while reading children’s picture books. Pages of selected books will be posted at various points along the walking path around the playground so people of all ages can follow the story as they walk the route. This week’s story, "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen, is sponsored by Julie, Britt, Bennett and Bridget Buchanan. Look for new stories in the coming weeks!". Thanks Buchanan family and Brownie Troop 2380 for this extra boost to literacy on campus.
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| Julie and Bridget |
Though we don't have the ticket price details yet (those are coming next week), our 2nd community arts event (including staff!) will be the Friday, Februray 24, 8:00 pm dance performance of
Diavolo at Bass Concert Hall. Per the promotional materials, "Diavolo reinvents dance, re-imagines theater, and redefines thrills. Dancers, gymnasts, and actors take movement, athletics, and daring to the extreme, creating abstract narratives through surreal tableaux...utilizing everyday items such as doors, chairs, and stairways to provide the backdrop for an evening of dramatic movment." I'm told this event will be thrilling for the entire family (boys and girls, young and old!), so we hope to see you there as we come together around the arts. Feel free to do some "pre-event" checking on the performance at the TX Performing Arts website. Again, details for tickets, with a special link to order, should be available next week in our Scottie Informer. FUN!
Finally, speaking of fun, just have to give some special props to Coach DeLine and Coach Supak of the HP PE program. Those guys, as a team, have created some wonderful programming around physical education. Though many, many of you have volunteered in your child's PE class this year and have seen some of the incredible motivators these guys have put into place, look below for pictures of Coach DeLine's
buckets of inspiration if you haven't yet seen them. Put together over the last couple of years with some current and former Scotties, these buckets serve as instant motivation to move past an issue a student may be having and to turn the situation into a positive outcome. For example, if someone is not feeling very
sportsman-like and needs some inspiration to win or lose
positively, the Sportsmanship Spice bucket filled with "sportsmanship magic dust" can be brought out,
sprinkled on the student having a hard time, and, like magic, can turn a negative emotion into a positive. Cool! As you can see below, Coach has lots of buckets for lots of different things that can crop up in a PE period (and beyond); one more avenue for kids to turn their day around so that teaching and learning can still take place, as well as a tool to let kids know they indeed have the power to handle their own emotions and reactions. Stop in to see these buckets if you haven't and also be sure to check out Coach's newest endeavor, the Waka-Waka videos, on the HP website. You'll be glad you did!
http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/HPhome/Recent_Events.html
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| Buckets of Inspiration |
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| Former Scottie Scarlett with her Sportsmanship Spice Creation |
