Greetings,
GreenMount Community,
Our thanks to all of you
for helping us enjoy another successful theme event. Your participation as an audience is
extremely important to the students and definitely adds to the success of the
program. I heard many parents asking
probing questions and helping our students clarify points that they had
rehearsed. I think it is obvious that
students have learned a lot when they can be steered away from their script by
your questions and still demonstrate their learning. I hope you realize that the time constraints
of the theme event allow our students little time to share all that they have
learned. You probably have figured out
that what you get to see and hear is but a sample of the learning that has
taken place.
Also, you
have played an important role in the success of the program by contributing to
the gym renovation, which has made a very significant difference in the quality
of how we experience student performances.
Most of all, you provide enthusiasm for and support of the theme events
by your presence and your encouragement of your children. We put together three theme events each year
to showcase student learning as well as social and emotional growth. But these events are also a showcase for our
school community and the support and participation of parents. Without your nurturing and obvious interest
in your children’s education, we could not hope to have events as successful as
the last 20 I have witnessed. That’s
right, I have one more to go to complete 21 theme events and each has been a
joy.
We have already started planning
for the theme event on May 22. Remember,
the title is Rembrandt to Rothko and
we will be immersed in art from several “movements”. If you have some ideas for experiences for
the students, please don’t hesitate to contact the teachers. We are planning several trips to the BMA, so
if you or someone you know has connections there, please let us know. We would love to see the art they have in
“storage”.
You may have noticed some
excavation in the front of the school and a very tall post at the corner of the
playground. The post will have a camera
and a listening device to record parents’ conversations about the school. Actually,
that’s not true, but I wanted to give you just a little pause. The post is actually there to extend the
Comcast line from the telephone pole at the corner of the church. The line then runs underground to the school,
giving us that coveted access to a high-speed Internet connection. Right now we have only three megabits per
second coming into the building. Can you
believe it? With the Comcast line we
will improve to 100 megabits per second.
This is something we have been working on for over a year and it is
finally going to happen! We are
fortunate to have so many parents who are very tech-savvy and who contribute
many hours of research and work to improve our technology infrastructure, which
gets better each year. Their work is
“Bully”!
Cheers,
Steve
