Every School Every Thursday — Waukee
March 22nd, 2008
There will be no school for spring break March 15-24.
The district’s fourth term will begin March 25.
The Waukee school district’s Parent Teacher Organization is looking for volunteers to fill various leadership positions. The PTO will hold a public vote on the slate of positions for the 2008-09 school year from 7 to 8 p.m. April 22 at the Waukee Public Library, 950 Warrior Lane. The deadline to apply for a position is 7 p.m. April 21. The following positions will be filled on the district PTO board: vice presidents for each of Waukee’s eight schools, secretary, treasurer and membership chairperson. In addition, each elementary school PTO will be seeking parent volunteers to form committees at the school-level, including fundraising, membership, activities, book fair, fine arts and conference meals. Parents interested in these positions should call Dee Dee Lounsbury at 987-1022 for more information.
Second-graders had their Fine Arts Night on March 4. They sang songs from “Seussical the Musical.”
Eason students are listening to the music of composer Antonio Vivaldi during the month of March. Every Wednesday morning during announcements students’ ears are treated to excerpts from his most famous work, “The Four Seasons.” These songs are quite familiar to the students already because they are often featured in many television commercials. Vivaldi had a great imagination and was able to capture the everyday sounds of the seasons in each of the movements. Buzzing flies, barking dogs, and the powerful sounds of a thunderstorm are all represented by the sounds of the string instruments.
The Eason art room has been a very busy place. Second-graders have been making papier mache masks in the form of animals, people, or combinations of the two. Fourth-graders are working on pastel portraits of animals, humans, or a combination. First- and third-graders are making clay pots. First-graders are learning how to make pinch pots and third-graders are trying their hands at coil pots. Kindergartners are also working with clay to make animals with four legs, and our fifth-graders are making clay relief tiles.
Tags: aday, lee, marvin
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 am
How does $90k/annum for 5 years sound? If you don’t mind leaving Boston, take a look here: http://www.mathforamerica.org/htdocs/template.php?section=about&content=overview .
March 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
someone on reddit should post a link with a list of milestones in photography, with this included.
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 am
Tigers are made of concrete?
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 am
No, I meant what I wrote.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 am
Really, a teacher should know more — MUCH more — math than s/he is trying to teach.I had a really good undergraduate math education, and washed out of a math PhD program at a top institution because I couldn’t stand grad school. Most students I have worked with have considered me a very effective teacher. I would like, in fact, to be able to consider teaching as a career choice. But I can’t, because it’s just punishment. You have to put up with the piles of bureaucratic crapola, the mile-wide, inch-deep math curriculum, the monomania for standardized testing, and the hours. (Oh god, the hours. Why can’t school start at a civilized hour, like 10:30?) And what do you get for it? Not enough money to live on, not here in Boston, and no prospect of advancement in salary except by the creep of seniority.I wonder how many other potential math and science teachers are out there, somewhere in the working world, thinking “Let me know if you ever decide to pay what a teacher is worth.”Well, there’s a new charter school in New York that’s starting their teachers at $125,000; we’ll see whether that actually makes a difference.