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Award Winning Teachers and Students
The awards just keep coming into FBUS!
(check back this week for more award postings!)
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Flood Brook Accepted into Vermont Reads Program
Flood Brook School has been selected for participation in the Vermont Humanities Council's Vermont Reads 2009 Program, a statewide, one-book community reading program. For the 4th consecutive year, middle school language arts teacher, Nicki Pfister has applied and been accepted to participate in this exciting program. Nicki will lead 7th grade students and their parents in reading this year's selected book, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka. There are numerous potential themes including: loss of identity, stereotyping, civil liberties, modern American History, Japanese and Japanese-American art and culture. "This project extends much beyond the language arts classroom," she explains. "Each year I collaborate with our art teacher, Casey Bailey, to provide an opportunity
for our students to see the book from the perspective of an artist, and each year we are amazed at the artwork they produce." This coming November, Nicki will be working closely with 7/8th grade Social Studies teacher, Mike Eppolito, to make this an integrated unit. "When students make connections to other content areas and the arts, their understanding becomes that much deeper and rewarding," she explains.
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Above: Green Up Poster contest winners. |
WINNING ARTISTS
Flood Brook School art teacher, Casey Junker Bailey, is delighted to announce that two Flood Brook fifth graders are winners in this year's Vermont Green Up Poster Contest. P.E. is a regional winner and O.B. took first place statewide. O.B.'s entry was reproduced and distributed throughout Vermont to announce this year's Green Up campaign. Flood Brook is extremely pround of its artists, as over 800 entries were submitted. |
STUDENT ART SHOW
The annual Custer-Sharp Student Art Show featuring art work by Flood Brook Students in grades K-8 will be opening on Friday May 29th from 4-6 p.m. The Custer-Sharp House is a wonderful historic building located on Middletown Road in Londonderry. Every year the Londonderry Historical Society invites students to exhibit their work in this lovely setting. At 4:30 p.m. on Friday Flood Brook's Chorus for Kids will be on hand to perform and refreshments will be served. The Show will also be open for viewing on the weekend from 10-12. It's a short walk from the Londonderry Farmer's Market, so don't miss this opportunity to see some very fine art work.
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First, Teacher Michael Eppolito, wins the a Silver Star Award from Inspiration Software.
As if that isn't good enough, Michael, known as Mr. E, immediately gave the PC he won to our Special Education department and the Inspiration software to the Math department. The $1,000 check will go toward a classroom SmartBoard.
While FBUS was celebrating this event, an 8th grade student, CJ won Inspiration's 2009 15 best projects award. CJ's project
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