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South Sound summer camps
NOVA School: The private middle school for the academically gifted is offering two Summer Discoveries Camps this year for students in the fourth and fifth grades. Camp dates are July 16 to 20 and August 13 to 17. The week-long camps are designed for the motivated academically talented students entering fourth or fifth grade in the fall 2007. There are morning and afternoon camps and full-day camps. The early-bird registration fee available is $135.00 for half-day camps, $270.00 for full-day camp. For information, class descriptions and registration forms go to the school Web site at www.novaschool.org or call NOVA School at 360-491-7097. Subjects include Art History, Mathematics, Shakespeare, Poetry, Chemistry, Drawing, Spanish, Exercise, and Science. Camp Invention: Students get hands-on science enrichment at a week-long day camp at locations in Lacey, Olympia and Tumwater.
Photography contest opens Mon-Valley students' eyes
About 65 budding photographers in grades kindergarten through five displayed their work, part of the Mon-Valley Elementary Gifted Education Consortium's photography/art contest held at the Jozart Studio in California, Pa. A country road after a snowfall, ducks in a pond, a blond blue-eyed boy partially hidden in a doorway, playful pets and bubbling streams proved to be popular themes at the recent show. .
Ted Porter Elementary School has a magical night of family literacy
In classroom B-106, first grade teacher Beatriz Hernandez stressed "Read, speak, write," while in B-105, Nichole Micciche and her three children, read together and learned magic tricks together.Hernandez and Micciche were among the many participants in Ted Porter Elementary School's "Family Literacy Night" on April 12.The school's classrooms, library and cafeteria buzzed with activities designed to bring children and their parents together to stress the importance of reading together at home."Not only reading together, but sharing and reflecting on what they read and what they learn," said Hernandez. "Read, speak, write; it's important to make that connection."To help make the connection, Hernandez handed out story sacks to parents filled with a journal, art supplies and a book for parents and children to share in activities at home.In room B-105, first grade teacher Donna Cash and her husband Paul Cash, a professional magician, held an audience of students and adults in rapt attention as he taught magic tricks with playing cards, paper clips and spoons.
Koolanoo: Myspace-style Jewish space
VIDEO - A good-looking girl in a bikini, wearing a gold Magen David around her neck, dives into a swimming pool and, oops, loses her bikini top. This has become a standard formula in advertisements, but in this case, it has an original ending. When she comes back up, a young man who is also wearing a Magen David chain covers her breasts. All of the guys sitting by the pool, who were ogling her just moments before, turn away in an "oy vey" gesture. .
Ensembles for the soul
EVE and Don Cohen spent last week gearing up for the 20th annual all-day party at their Cheviot Hills home. The preparations meant scheduling more than 80 amateur chamber musicians to play in five rooms Saturday — changing partners every 45 minutes plus grazing on a potluck dinner, sampling wines and watching a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta unfold in the backyard, complete with live orchestra.
"We thought Hindemith — instead of Brahms or Beethoven — would drive them away, but when we scheduled him as the composer a few years back, even more came," says Eve Cohen, who tried composers Bohuslav Martinu and Grazyna Bacewicz this year but cooked for 100 guests nonetheless.
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Public library to host poetry workshop
Today and Saturday, the Morgantown Public library will host a poetry slam and workshop in celebration of National Poetry Month. The event is designed specifically for teenagers who are looking for a place to share their creative talent and receive some valuable advice. Tamara Woods, a local poet and librarian, will be on hand to offer inspiration and feedback to all curious, young writers who wish to take part in the events. ''On Thursday, I'll be showing the kids different types of poems that they can write,'' Woods said. ''We'll do some group poems like 'tag poetry,' where one person writes something, then the next person writes something on it,'' Woodssaid. ''It's definitely a chance to learn about the different forms of poetry.'' Saturday's ''Slam'' will give participants a chance to read their work out loud in front of an audience.
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