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Work & Wellness:An Exhibition of Student Work

MCCPSJune 17 2009

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Work & WellnessEssential Questions and Understanding Goals

What defines work?Students will understand...

How producers and consumers contribute to work That there are many kinds of work That energy is needed for work

What does it mean to be healthy?Students will understand...

That choices affect wellnessThat there are many types of healthThat there are obstacles to wellness

How are work and wellness connected?Students will understand...

That a healthy world requires work How work influences well beingThat perspective shapes work

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Program of Activities

THE MCCPS BANDunder the direction of Ms. Adria Smith

Oye Como Va by Tito Puente arranged by Victor LopezSolos by Nate Torto and Geoffrey Selden

Mission Impossible by Lalo Schifrin arranged by Paul Lavender Mozart Mix by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arranged by JohnOReilly

THE JAZZ MCCPS BANDunder the direction of Ms. Adria Smith

Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock with solos by GeoffreySelden, Billy McAllon, Jake Hempel, Alex Hamzeh, and Nate Torto

THE A CAPPELLA ENSEMBLEunder the direction of Nancy Wolinski

On the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding

STREET LATIN DANCEunder the direction of Gregory Coles

A selection of Latin dance including: Salsa, Chachacha,

Merengue, and Bachata

STUDENT EXHIBITIONSin grade level classrooms from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

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4th GradeLife Cycle-scape

Students became biologists and photojournalists this trimester as theystudied the life cycle of plants, butterflies and frogs. Dont miss the studentcreated film strips depicting their chosen life cycles of plants, butterflies, or frogs. Each student also has an Independent Species Study including ascientific drawing to share with visitors. Be sure to question 4th graders aboutthe habitat and unique characteristics of the species they have studied. Ms.Millers advisory will present from 7:30-8:00. Ms. Dowdells advisory will presentfrom 7:00-7:30. Look for student science notebooks with daily observationsand graphs showing growth over time.

Ancient China: Dragon & LotusStudents became playwrights, producers, directors, and actors topresent a play based on the Chinese folktale, A Grain of Rice, re-written byHelena Clare Pittman. Cooperative groups each worked on a portion of thefolktale to create character dialogue and then assumed the roles of actors,playwrights, directors, andproducers. Music selectionsinclude original Chinese influencedpiano pieces, a song called China,and the band playing, Ming Court.Come see our fabulousproduction! Ms. Millers advisorywill be performing at 7:00 p.m. Ms.

Dowdells advisory will beperforming at 7:35 p.m.

The ancient Chinese wereoriginators of many technologiesand inventions. Many of them arestill in use today. Students wrote

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invention of their choice. Look for student invention reports.Fourth graders also constructed ancient Chinese puzzles called

tangrams and used them to explore geometry and fractions. See thetangrams in Ms. Millers room and ask our mathematicians about them!In Art, students created Chinese dragon puppets as well as leaf print poetryportfolio covers with their names in Chinese. Look for them in Ms. Dowdellsroom.

Similes, Stanzas, Senses, and StarsAs budding poets, Grade Four students have created poetry portfolios

illustrating various poetry forms. Look for these on display in Ms. Dowdellsroom. Students have created poetry of many forms: couplets, acrostics,similes, rhyming, and free verse.

5th GradePlants

Students became media specialists. On display in the computer labwill be student-created slide presentations about plants. In art, inconjunction with a unit on printmaking, students learned about somefamous 18th century artists who specialized in botanical prints. Theyresearched images of plants and drew a botanical print of their plant.They colored them using watercolor paints. These will be displayed in theoutdoor classroom (weather permitting).

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?The fifth grade will review content from the year in our version of Are

You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? Students and select adults will answer questions related to the fifth grade curriculum including the arts. Come jointhe fun in 6C.

MachinesStudents became engineers and machinists. They have designed and

built machines that accomplish one of the challenges offered by their

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science. These concepts include; simple machines,use of hand tools, electricity, magnetism, physical

properties of materials, measurement, addition andsubtractions of decimals and fractions, and problem

solving. In addition, students created a printadvertisements for their machines that is included in their

presentations, along with their plans and scaled drawings.

6th GradeThe Global Threads of Baseball

In the Community Room, 6th grade students are baseball consultantsfor a Major League Baseball team. Students are displaying real-time dataabout their team in different formats from mathematical data to

biographical statistics. Guests will be challenged to a handmademathematical baseball game that emphasizes elements of probability.Winners will be entered into a raffle to win baseball memorabilia signed bySwampscott's own Johnny Pesky. Also, guests will have the opportunity toread authentic baseball themed short-stories. Students are wearing t-shirtsfeaturing originally designed team logos. Finally, throughout the evening

you will be entertained by several live baseball themed skits and pianomusic.

Fantastic Food Webs & Funky French AnimalsAlong the 6th Grade Hallway a visual display of funky french animals

based on the West Ghana folktales of Anasi. These imaginary creatures are

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students' Greek Red Figure pottery paintings in the hallway.At 8pm students will present "A la mode," a French fashion show

featuring the Ancients. Students will walk the catwalk in their character costumes to their original musical compositions based on Ancient Greeceand Rome.

Buy a 7th grade CD! Original compositions have been recorded atRingo studio. You will hear the pieces during the French fashion show. CDsinclude students performing songs about mythology and are on sale for $5.00.

8th GradeWork in Progress:

Reflecting Back & Looking ForwardTonight, the 8th grade students will present a portfolio of work,including artwork, poetry, journaling, and essay writing on science, mathand food among other things. Through much of this work, the students havereflected on their experiences as students here and elsewhere. As theyprepare to strongly finish out their middle school years and transition intohigh school, it is essential for them to reflect on the learning that theyvedone and the growth that has taken place. Join the students in the 8thgrade classrooms and in Charter Hall for discussions about and oralpresentations of their work.

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