As you can imagine, we began our week super excited that our very own Laine Leibick won the HEB Lifetime Achievement Award last Sunday evening. She receives a significant cash award as does our school. Most importantly, one of our very favorite and deserving teachers was recognized for outstanding teaching - we always knew it and we're glad others now know it too. WooHoo!
Fifth grader Auveed Rokhsaz was a man with a mission over the last two weeks. He personally sought me out to tell me about his cause Wheelchairs for Iraqi's, a unique program that supplies wheelchairs to children in Iraq who have none and desperately need them - thus a campus fundraiser was born. Truly inspiring, I commend his philanthropic endeavor, and was just told today that he was able to raise the $350 needed to supply one wheelchair. His father has agreed to match this very generous donation, so two wheelchairs will now be donated to children in need. Thanks Scotties and Auveed for getting behind this cause and helping our world at large. That's what it's all about.
HP's SCORES program, along with Brian Cox of Austin Film Kids, were busy at work this week filming their very own PSA. I hear this public service announcement, to be shown on our Scottie morning announcments, will have a space theme with a timely message about honesty. Kids connected and not connected to SCORES helped with filming and seemed to be having a blast. Looking forward to it.
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| On the bus by 6:30 am! |
On Wednesday, first grade let me tag along on their annual trip to Sea World in San Antonio. It was an early start, lots of walking and looking throughout the day, and super fun to hang out with the kids and parents who chaperoned. We fed the dolphins, learned about penguins, saw the Killer Whale and Sea Lion shows, and really enjoyed this experience that ties to their Ocean Animals Unit of Study. I have to admit I was bone tired when evening came, something you forget about when you're no longer in the classroom. Well worth it however. Enjoyed it tremendously.
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| Waiting for the Sea Lions with Mrs. Powers |
Of course, this is the week for all things Greek in fifth grade. As you can see from just a small sampling of pictures, the kids have been working on their Greek mythology projects and now have them on display. The level of detail never fails to impress me. They wrapped up this unit with their performance of original Greek plays (remember the work done with Pollyanna Theatre in early Spring?) and I'm being totally honest when I say they were extremely well done. The dialogue, the staging, and the humor (Hermes and his Nikes!) garnered more audience chuckles and sounds of appreciation than I've heard before. I'm glad our kids were able to actively participate in writing these scripts as it made it that much more meaningful. Well done fifth grade.
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| Backstage Access...cool! |
