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Cape Vincent Elementary School
February
2015
Newsletter
Principal Mrs. Lisa Freitag
Principal’s News
Hello Families!
Important Dates:
2/3 – BOE Meeting
2/13 – Awards Assembly
2/14 – Valentine’s Day
2/16-20 – Winter Recess
2/24 – BOE Meeting
It is hard to believe that we are already beginning February, 2015! As
everyone tries hard to keep warm this winter, we are busy working
with our students to provide quality instruction based on the common
core learning standards. Teachers encourage our children daily to
become more independent in their thinking and problem solving.
When you work with your child on homework, please encourage them
to explain their thought process to you as they work, in order to assist
them in obtaining a deeper meaning as they learn.
The second quarter Awards Assembly will be held on Friday, Feb. 13.
Each classroom teacher will select students from their classroom to
receive one of three awards. The first is the Lighthouse Award that is
given to a student that shines for any reason. The second is the
Citizenship Award, which is provided to a student exhibiting good
citizenship and responsibility. The third is called the Spotlight Award,
and this is awarded to the student that academically shines.
Continued thanks go out to our PTO, staff, students, and families for
the on-going support. The PTO is particularly supportive in the events
they sponsor all year long! Our next PTO meeting is March 2nd at 4:30
p.m. We would love more input and parental involvement, which helps
us provide exciting opportunities for our students. PTO sponsored
activities during the year are a great benefit for all of our students.
Always remember that I am here to help and support you in any way I
can. Please contact me if you have questions or concerns. If you are in
the building, feel free to stop in and say ‘Hello’. Have a ‘warm’ month
and do something fun and exciting during Winter Recess!
Sincerely,
Lisa Freitag
Principal
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February ART NEWS
The Sculptures Are Coming!
Kindergartners have learned to draw dinosaurs
and animals using an oval as the base shape and
adding to the parts needed to create the dinosaur
or animal. They will then select a dinosaur or
animal for their sculptures.
Ask a Kindergartner: What dinosaur or animal
have you selected for your sculpture project? Why
do you think you were taught to draw dinosaurs
and animals using an oval?
First Graders will be figure drawing. They will draw
each other using shapes. They will be learning how
to draw different poses. This is in preparation for
creating their person sculpture. Their person
sculpture is required to “be doing something not
just standing”.
Ask a First Grader: What active position do you
think you will choose for your person sculpture?
Second Graders sketched their ideas for a realistic
or fiesta animal pose. Each student will be creating
the foundation for their sculptures. If you have any
interesting shapes in your recyclable bin (quart
and half gallon maximum size) please save them
for your child’s animal sculpture. After the
foundation is taped, they will be applying the
plaster craft to make their foundation into a more
permanent, hard paintable surface.
Ask a Second Grader: What animal did you select
for your sculpture? Did you choose a realistic or
fiesta pose? What shape do you think would be
best for your animal’s body? Every art lesson
focuses on one or more of the 7 Elements of Art:
Line, Shape, Space, Form, Color, Texture and
Value. Every grade 2 through grade 5 student
should know these 7 Elements of Art.
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Third Graders have completed working on stilllife paintings. They will be using a shadowing
effect to create the illusion of 3D (three
dimensional) objects on a flat piece of paper
(Form). Next, they will utilize the Texture element
of art as they draw animal faces and prepare to
create their cultural masks.
Ask a Third Grader: Which of the 7 Elements of
Art did you use in your still-life and landscapes?
What elements do you focus on when contour
drawing? If you are creating the illusion of objects
using shadow, how does that fit into the
definition of form?
Fourth Graders completed a still-life painting
using triangle composition using their objects.
They will be drawing animals using a Line drawing
method. Students will be selecting an animal
indigenous to New York State. The animal they
select will be used as their totem animal. The
Iroquois Indians were indigenous people to New
York State. Students will sketch an idea using that
animal for an Iroquois totem necklace.
Ask a Fourth Grader: What does indigenous
mean? What animals do you think are indigenous
to New York State? What animal are you
considering for your totem necklace?
Fifth Graders will be creating a final bug drawing.
They have learned many ways to draw animals,
birds and bugs. It’s amazing to see the difference
between their first & final drawings. Next, they
will create a sketch of the pose they would like to
create as a sculpture.
Ask a Fifth Grader: What pose do you think you
will choose for your sculpture? What "action" will
it portray? Have you thought of a good title for
your sculpture?
Thank you for your support!
Ms. Colvin, “The Art Teacher”
Phone 654-2142, x2202, email [email protected]
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It’s time for Valentine Grams!
Once again we are encouraging our students to give back. The money
raised from the Valentine Grams will be donated to the Galisano Children’s
Hospital in Syracuse. To follow our tradition it will be given in the honor of
Henry Wood. Each Valentine Gram is a minimum donation of 25 cents.
Additional donations are accepted. We encourage the students to do a
good dead to earn the money to purchase the Valentine Grams. Please
consider doing this instead of purchasing Valentine’s. Students need to
complete the Valentine Gram and return them along with their donation
to school by Thursday, February 12th. They will receive their Valentine
Grams on Friday, February 13th during their classroom celebrations. Please
wear orange on Friday to celebrate our donation to Galisano!
Thank you for spreading Random Acts of Kindness!
CVES Staff
Community Presentation on Drug Use
Thousand Islands High School will be sponsoring a presentation
on the issue of drug abuse in our schools and community. The
presentation will take place at the end of February. Watch for
additional information to come home with your student,
information on our website, www.1000islandsschools.org and in
the Thousand Islands Sun.
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Music Notes
From Mrs. Beerman
All of our students are working hard on putting together their
concert pieces with movement, instrumental parts and dances. The
singing is improving by leaps and bounds…remind them to keep
working on the verses to their songs.
Recorder playing is going well and the fourth and fifth grade
students should be practicing their recorder pieces at home too. If
they are squeaking, then they know that they are blowing too
hard…have them quiet down.
March is “Music in Our Schools” Month, be sure you stop in and
see a concert. Here is the schedule for the Concerts at Cape Vincent
Elementary:
Spring Concert, March 25, 2015 –7pm
Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday
in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President
George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday”
by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22—
Washington’s actual day of birth—the holiday became popularly known
as Presidents’ Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform
Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation’s
workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of
Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day is now popularly
viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and present.
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Kindergarten Registration
Parents of children eligible to enter school in
September 2015 are asked to call the schools listed
below to register their child. Children are eligible to
enroll if born on or before December 1, 2010 or will be
five years old by December 1, 2015.
The following information is needed when contacting
the school: child’s given name, gender, parent or
guardian’s name with address
(mailing and 911), child’s date of birth, telephone
number and email address.
Please call Guardino Elementary School at
(315) 686-5578 ext. 3001 or Cape Vincent Elementary
School at (315) 654-2142 ext. 2001.
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Elementary Guidance Notes
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We continue to maintain a safe environment for student dismissal. We need your help! If you are picking
up students in the parking lot, please remember that there is one way traffic at all times. If everyone stays
to the right and circles around only that way, things are much safer for everyone. Also, please do NOT move
your vehicles out of the parking space until the stop sign is brought down. We hold that sign up until all
students and family members are safely in vehicles. Parking lots are dangerous places and with your help
we can continue to make sure that ours is a safe place. Thank you for your help and awareness of this issue.
Please remember to have your child wear appropriate winter outerwear (hats, mittens, warm jacket, and
boots). If anyone is in need of any of these items, please contact me, and I will be more than happy to set
you up with some for your child!
School Closings and Delays
The decision for closing or delaying the school will normally be made by 6:00am. If school is closed or
delayed, the announcement will be made via School Messenger and over Radio Stations: Regents
Broadcasting - 790 AM WTNY, 1410 AM WUZZ, 93.3 FM WCIZ, 97.5 FM WFRY; Community Broadcasters:
1240 AM WATN, 103.1/100.1/104.3 FM WTOJ Majic, 106.7/92.7 FM WBDI/WBDB The Border, 100.7 FM
WOTT Real Rock, 102.7 WBDR KIX Country. TV Stations: TV 7 WWNY, TV 50 WWTI, TV 3 WSTM Syracuse
and, News 10 NOW.
In the event that school is delayed, it will always be a two-hour delay. Parents should be advised that bus
students will be picked up two hours later than normal.
We’re on the Web!
www.1000islandsschools.org