Greetings GreenMount Community,
It’s
Tuesday, and around here we are still reveling in the success of the theme
event. When we thought of this theme, we
knew it would be an important learning experience for our students, but we also
immediately wondered how a theme event would look. As usual, the teachers examined the
overarching idea and the curriculum Mr. Fletcher had written, and tailored
activities and concepts for each grade level.
And we saw that, through typical GreenMount creativity, they were
successful in getting the most out of this topic.
As we made final
arrangements for the event, we began to worry that our audience would be
sitting for a long time on those hard metal chairs, and that perhaps this would
make the experience tiresome and uncomfortable.
But with a typical GreenMount response, parents and guests seemed happy
to remain in one spot for this particular theme event. In fact, I have received several emails
congratulating us on the theme event, and some even commented on the fact that
parents liked staying in one spot for most of the experience. We also received praise for our student
moderators who ran the discussion groups.
They did a great job! I think
also that the idea of skits was made particularly successful because of Sean
Wilson and his sound equipment. Wasn’t
it nice to be able to actually hear the grunts of the cavemen and the funny
lines delivered by our kindergarten students? The sound system made all the
difference in the world for this theme event.
That said, let’s
remember that our 20th Anniversary Project is well under way to
provide us with a space in the gym that will be enhanced by a sound dampening
system, new lighting, curtains, new chairs, and a new sound system much like
the one Sean used. We still need about
$8,000 to complete the project, so if you have a rich uncle who is interested
in promoting the arts at GreenMount, bring him around to see what we are
planning, or just shoot Jill Goodman a little contribution of your own. Imagine what it will be like next year when
we have all these things in place for our students!
Speaking
of our performances, tonight will be a special evening at GreenMount. Ms. Laurie has been working all year with her
students to present a culminating event of their own in music. And following the spring music program, you
will see a once-in-a-lifetime rendition of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. I have watched rehearsals of this play and
you will be amazed at the children’s performances. And the costumes and set design are a
must-see. Please join us this evening
for another great culmination to our school year - a year that has flown by all
too fast.
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; brief as the lightening in the
collied night…
Wm. Shakespeare,A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Cheers,
Steve
