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Ready for the snow!
March 19, 2015
Choral Spectrum wins Gold Medal
Student wins
President’s Volunteer
Service Award
PV students are prepared for snow.
Jacob Gallasso (Grade 5), Maddie
Edwards (Kindergarten) and Maggie
Killoy (Grade 5) arrive at Pleasant
Valley ready for snow!
100th Day of School
Andrew Smyrak with his certificate.
Choral Spectrum performs at a recent show choir competition.
On Feb. 7, Choral Spectrum traveled to Dudley, Mass., and competed
in the Central Massachusetts Show
Choir Festival. This year’s competition set is “Good and Evil,” and
feature stage sets, costume changes
and a story-based musical theme.
Spectrum was awarded a Gold Medal and placed third overall. Judges
Awards were awarded to Jason St.
Denis, Meghan Oberly and Victoria
Striebel.
Students represent TE at
MathCounts competition
Andrew Smyrak, son of Dorothy Smyrak, was awarded President Obama’s
Volunteer Service Award. This award
recognizes Americans of all ages who
have volunteered significant amounts of
time to serve their communities. The
TEMS eighth-grader completed his volunteer work at a Boy Scout camp as a
counselor’s helper. Andrew received a
Volunteer Service Award Certificate
and a note of appreciation from President Obama. Andrew’s volunteer service makes him a role model for all young
adults.
After-school clubs
at TEMS
TEMS began its second round of
TEAM Matinee After School Clubs. 135
students are participating in 12 afterschool clubs, including bowling, movie
matinee, board games, yoga, knitting,
nail art, fitness factory, newspaper,
woodworking, magic, French/Spanish
and running.
A trip to the theater
The TEMS MathCounts Competition Team.
Eli Terry students participated in 100th
Day of School activities.
First-graders at Eli Terry decorated
t-shirts and participated in many activities to celebrate the 100th day of school.
Pictured here are Mimi Hamadi and
Emil Cheatem.
In early February, Samantha
Donovan, Jason Rickenbacher, Marshall Neilsen, Alex Viar, Noah Leibowitz, Taylor Chen, Lauren Lee
and Samantha West represented
Timothy Edwards Middle School at
the Hartford Chapter, MathCounts
competition. It was quite a day of
math for our competitors. The T.E.
Team of Sam, Jason, Marshall and
Alex placed sixth against 29 regional
schools, earning T.E. an invitation to
the State MathCounts competition
in March. Noah Leibowitz had an
exceptional day, placing 19th individually out of the 240 competitors,
and also earning an invitation to the
state competition. Congratulations
to all our MathCounts participants
on a very fine effort.
Kindergarten students at Pleasant
Valley recently took a trip to the Lincoln
Theater at University of Hartford. It was
an exciting trip, since many of the
students had never been to a theater
before. The classes read a story and
completed several activities to prepare
for the show. Students enjoyed the
musical “Click, Clack, Moo,” and when
they returned to school, they compared
the musical to the book and looked for
similarities and differences.
Submitted by Sara Chamberlain