March 5, 2009 | Volume 1, Issue 25
Dates to remember:-Wednesday, March 1oth: Middle School District Wide Band Day at BUHS-Thursday, March 12th: Middle School field trip to Colonial Theatre in Keene-Thursday, March 19th: Early Release Day (12:30)
-Friday, March 20th: Teacher In-service Day – NO SCHOOL
-Friday, March 27th: Marionette Performance to benefit Garden program
Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend! Remember – Spring Ahead, Fall Back!
News from the Student Asset Council
The student asset team completed the food drive with a total of 1,600 donations to the Putney Food Shelf. Mrs. Remillard’s grade 3 / 4 classroom led the drive 4 out of 7 weeks, with a total of 462 items. Read more
A Japanese Garden Grows in Putney
With major financial help from PCS’s PTO, supplemented by funds from our School Board, Putney Central took on a project to build ourselves our own Japanese garden. The entire school community, both adults and children, donated their time, effort, plants, stones, and labor to make it a reality.
In the spring of 2005, students studied the concepts of the traditional Japanese garden in their art classes and then proceeded to design their own garden. Keeping true to these concepts students recognized the need to adapt it to the needs of northern New England climate and plants. From these designs a master plan was drawn up that was faithful to our student designs. Read more
Art at PCS
In the art room at Putney Central, many exciting things happen on a daily basis. Students create with a variety of media, and are inspired by a wide range of western and nonwestern, historical and modern artwork. A strong component of the art program at PCS involves the stimulation of the developing imagination of our students, who range from pre-k through to 8th grade. When the imagination is sparked, wonderful things happen — children are excited about their learning, feel connected and empowered by the work that they do, and they become absorbed in a world which they create. Students are encouraged to make decisions and explore possibilities and to feel pride in the unique product they create, dictated by their individual process.
2008 began with a study of hands — symbols and images of hands were seen in the artwork from Mexico, Native America, Aboriginal Australia, India, Israel, as well as from the work of MC Escher, and some current artists. current Western artists.
Students designed their own hands with paper, watercolor, and metal.
Younger children, grades pre-k–2, have been working on self-portraits.
Inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, students in grades 3–7 have been collecting flowers from the garden outside our door, and drawing them close-up, focusing on using positive and negative shapes to create a compelling composition. Color study and color harmony is also a component of this unit.
The 8th graders have been working on creating paper mache sculptures; bringing the mythical creatures from their English Class Essays to life. In October, we brought these sculptures into the forest as the 8th graders told their stories to the youngers.
