Thursday Bulletin
Volume 28, Number 33
June 5, 2008

Celebrating 27 Years of Ethical Education!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES:

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES:

Myles Lincoln Brown – Pioneer Valley Performing Arts
Kizzi Collier – Franklin County Technicasl School
Addie M. Coley – Williston Northampton
Rosy Coleman – Northampton High School
H. Lilly Daiber – Pioneer Valley Performing Arts
Anne Josephine Dayton - undecided
Rachel Fern Durante – Compass School
Wylie Earp – Northfield Mount Hermon
Ruvi E Ender- Arnold – PVPA/NHS
Bailey Mae Gardener – Darrow School
Oona Snow Kilcommons – Northfield Mount Hermon
Emma Vail Marsters – undecided
Coko Moore – Northampton High School
Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin – PVPA/Amherst
Micah Niles Snow-Cobb – Pioneer
Emily Tatro – Four Rivers Charter School
Mollie Delena Tobey – Pioneer
Adina Rose Viarengo – Academy at Charlemont
Owen Ryan Watrous – Northfield Mount Hermon
Hannah Wulkan – Deerfield Academy

Graduation in the tent at 9:00 Friday, June 6th.

STAFF LUNCH
THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!
TO ALL THE WONDERFUL COOKS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE STAFF LUNCH.
IT WAS AMAZINGINGLY DELICIOUS!!
LOVE FROM THE STAFF

HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!

June 6
Graduation 9:00
Dismissal 12:30

June 7
Heifer Parade in Brattleboro
(5th Graders will be parading their puppets).

June Camp is coming up soon!!
Parents must register and prepay for the camp days you want!

A Note From the Billing Office!
GOING PAPERLESS!!
Beginning in August we will have the ability to email statements and invoices.
This would save a lot in paper and stamps for the school. If you would like to do this,
Please email me, Veronica, at veronica@centerschool.net from the email address you would like to use. Type "EMAIL STATEMENTS" in the memo and I'll set you up.
Thanks in advance! Veronica

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NOTES & NOTICES

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SUMMER TUTORING
I will be offering tutoring services this summer in the Amherst and Greenfield areas. For further information about schedules and rates, contact Sue Schwartz at (413) 549-1744

SUMMER TUTORING & PRIVATE LESSONS AVAILABLE:
-I am offering summer tutoring in all academic areas, including math, reading, and writing. I am certified in grades K-8 and currently teach in the Upper Middles (5/6).

I am also offering private & small group instruction in my specialty areas:

WOODWORKING – carving, building projects, other wood crafts
MUSIC – recorder, percussion, guitar, songwriting, etc.

Please contact me at school or home (548-9008).
Thanks, Chris Sanborn

NATURE'S ART CAMP
Camps this June, July, & August at The Art Bridge are over half full, but there is still room for children ages 4-6 and ages 7-12 (in two separate, interrelated groups.)

Weeks of:
June 30-July 4, July 21-25, July 28-Aug1, Aug 11-15, Aug 18-22.

Staff include:
Kirk, Eve, Evelyn (of the after-school program), Tess Forton (Tyler's older sister), Thomas (swordplay leader), Frank Grindrod (Earthworks naturalist), area singer-songwriters, and other special guests.

Activities include: Music making around the morning fire. Stories brought to life in art and nature adventures. Tie-die and jeans painting. Stream wading meadow play. Waterfall challenges for older campers. Theater improv games & reinvented stuffy puppet plays. Pottery. Painting poetry murals & printmaking picture books. Hearing music in nature and writing our own songs. Recording our songs. Spirit Art of many kinds. Musical meditation and yoga.

Compassionate Communication practiced from opening circle to afternoon puppet show.

Incredible amounts of fun enjoying our love for this world.

Location:
4 miles west of the Greenfield rotary in a forested meadow by a bubbling brook.

More info:
Call or email 625-2724, info@theartbridge.org.

Artspace:
Artspace is in need of ½ & ¼ size violins for a music program in the Greenfield Public Schools. You can give them to Vivian in Middles or to Artspace. Call Jen 773-7130 for more info.

Lost and Found
Check the front hall of the Brick Bldg for lost belongings. Anything not claimed before break will be donated.

Full-Day Hilltown Summer Arts Program for Children
Ages 6 to 12
4 weeks, July 14 - August 8, 2008
9 –3:30 at Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, MA

#1 Puppet Theater & Expressive Arts (July 14-18, ages 6-10)
Enjoy playful Puppet Theater with Janice Dompke, accomplished actor, director and craftsperson. Bring your imagination and love of crafting to this exciting workshop where children create different types of puppets and begin to tell interactive stories with each other.

Rachel Silverman, painter, designer and art educator, brings her passion for creativity, imagination and experiential learning. Your child will engage in exploring various 2 dimensional media. Through drawing, painting, cut-paper collage, and print-making we will practice making art from observation and our imaginations, inside and out!

#2 Yoga Adventures / Ukrainian Eggs & Batik (July 21-25, ages 7-12)
With Chayah Lichtig, a certified children's yoga and movement teacher, your child will take a yoga adventure. Children will learn traditional yoga postures, songs, and breathing exercises, then create their own in a fun and lighthearted environment of games, and partner poses - and play with AcroYoga, where partners "fly" each other! Music and visual art provide reflection time. (former Center School teacher)

Batik with Mary Link, will be full with color! From Ukrainian Egg dying to creating designs on T-shirts and wall hangings, children will explore using colorful dyes with a wax resist. (Note: your child will need to be able to responsibly handle permanent dyes, hot wax and candles).

#3 Mask Making & Joyful Noise Music (July 28 - August 1, ages 6-12)
Sara Brown, enthusiastic artist and teacher, will draw out your child's creativity. Your child will enjoy a colorful time creating expressive masks of papier mâché and other materials, making sculptures, drawing and painting. (former Center School teacher)

Julia Meservey of A Joyful Noise Children's Music Studio will fill afternoons with music. A licensed Kindermusik teacher, Julia will lead the children in playing simple tunes on the recorder, exploring their own "inside" instruments (the voice), mastering basic sight-singing skills and putting together a short musical drama by week's end! Each child will receive a recorder and music book to keep.

#4 Theater / Mosaics (Aug 4-8, ages 7 -12)
With Jeannine Haas, accomplished actor and director, children will actively explore a variety of roles and relationships as they play upbeat theater games, do improvisation, and collectively create a play performance for the final day.

Cynthia Fisher, of Big Bang Mosaics, offers her enthusiasm and expertise for this exciting art form. Your child will learn glass cutting, design, positioning and grouting, resulting in a colorful original mosaic to bring home. (Note: this is a time consuming, fine motor activity requiring patience and focus. Please consider your child's specific needs, in registering).

$165 per 1-week session - Scholarships available

Brochure Registration forms are available in the Center School Lobby
To Register, call Mary Link (Emi's mom) at 628-4695
On Web at http://www.acth.org/summer.html, or Email: summer@acth.org

Sarah Pirtle’s Journey Camp
Nature awareness for young people

Three Week Camp for boys & girls
July 7-July 25 – for ages 8 to 13

Girls’ Week
August 18-August 22 – for ages 8 to 13

Girls’ Teen Leadership
For ages 13-17

August 16-17 Training weekend plus Girls’ Week August 18-22
For information contact Sarah (413) 625-2355
pirtle22@hotmail.com
(Flyer posted at Center School)return to top

General:

1. Shoes must be worn and have to be able to allow for play and movement.

2. Pants have to stay up without holding them.

3. Underwear cannot be visible.

4. Clothing graphics – no offensive writing/graphics on clothing (no sexual content, meanness or offensive language); political content is okay as long as it is not insulting.

5. Scents must be mild enough to not linger in a room after the wearer leaves.

6. Make-up can be worn in moderation and applied outside of class (UM and Uppers only).

7. Outer wear is temperature/weather dependent and left to the discretion of the administration and/or classroom teacher's policy.

Clothing length:

1. Standard length – Clothing no shorter than mid-thigh (where fingertips reach thigh with arms extended down)

2. Clothing shorter than standard length are worn with leggings, pants, jeans (not see-through tights or fishnets).

3. Shirt and tops

a. Low neckline –shirt/tank worn under a second
b. Bra straps can show but no other parts of a bra are to be visible
c. Neckline is no lower than cleavage line
d. Midriff must be covered and shirt is long enough to keep from riding up
e. Tops have straps or sleeves, not strapless

4. Fabric – sheer or see-through clothing must have a layer underneath.

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Drop off and Dismissal Procedures

Drop Off
Arrival time is anywhere between 8:00 and 8:15 a.m. The school driveway is actually a one-way public road called Abercrombie Ave. Parents should proceed single file to the Brick Building. Please wait to drop off children until your car is in front of the school entrance. Children should only exit on the passenger side of the car at the school sidewalk. Once your children have entered the school, carefully pull forward to exit onto Montague City Road. Traffic on Abercrombie Ave is constantly in motion. Please do not park along either side of Abercrombie Ave. It is very dangerous for people to get out of cars anywhere other than right in front of the Brick Building or in one of the parking lots. Uppers should not be dropped off in front of the Finer Building. Stopping in that area of the street is too dangerous. Please pull into one of the parking areas or continue on to the front of the Brick Building.

Dismissal
Dismissal is anytime between 3:15-3:30 p.m. daily, except Wednesday, which is 12:30-12:45 p.m. Dismissal time is very structured and organized. Again, cars enter Abercrombie Ave and proceed toward the Brick Building. This time, however, there are three lanes of traffic. The right and middle lanes form lines of cars waiting for GCS students. The left lane is the drive through lane and must always remain open.

Please pull up until you are a few feet behind the next car in line. We have a walkie-talkie system for calling students to their cars. A teacher will be outside, walking up and down the dismissal line with a walkie-talkie She/he will come to each waiting vehicle and ask for the names and classrooms of the students going home in that vehicle. The dismissal teacher will relay the names to the classrooms and the classroom teachers will send your children out. K-6th grade students will exit the Brick Building through the main doors.

	NO PARKING! PLEASE DO NOT PARK ANYWHERE ALONG THE LEFT LANE OF THE DRIVEWAY. PLEASE KEEP THAT LANE OPEN FOR THROUGH TRAFFIC.
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