News & Notes
ADL AGENDA
Dear Families,
Congratulations to our departing 8th graders. The words shared by their peers Jeff Kent and Katie Combs were inspirational, as well as the message from their chosen adult speaker Ms. Amanda Eldridge. Many thanks to our Parents as Partners 7th and 8th grade parents/guardians for setting up, serving, chaperoning and cleaning up during the reception and during and after the dance that followed. Have a good summer and best of luck at EHS, we know you’ll do us proud.
Unified Arts Department take a bow!! CSWD (Chittenden Solid Waste District) has given the “Outstanding Achievements in Environmental Education and Waste Prevention” Award for 2010 to Family and Consumer Science Teacher Terry Potvin, Music Teachers Adam Sawyer and Gary Moreau and Art Teacher Tina Logan! The Unified Arts Department created a “Speak Up” (Saving Planet Earth as Kids Unite Proactively) Unit focusing on: Reuse, Recycle and Reduce! Students learned about the 3 “R’s” through speakers from 7th Generation and CSWD and did a lot of hands on activities, as well. 8th Graders attended the ‘Scrap Arts Band’ concert at the Flynn after working on their own scrap art musical pieces. Students created the first ever ‘ADL Ecco Festival’ and are in the process of maintaining the 1st ever ADL Community Garden! Teachers Logan, Moreau, Potvin, and Sawyer agreed that it was well worth all of the effort to create the present awareness and student environment at ADL!
ADL’s Fuel Up to Play 60 Team finished the year with a celebration of ‘taste testing smoothies’ and doing an all grade “hops” kick boxing and hip hop dance activity! Cabot Cheese donated the yogurt and City Market donated the bike to pedal to provide the energy to make smoothies! Grant money will be used to order ping pong tables for students’ use in the AM before school in the cafeteria. Students also will be able to use Wii Fit on three different screens in the cafeteria in the mornings!
Family and Consumer Science Teacher Terry Potvin, Physical Education Teacher Ruth Dunkley McGowan and Asst. Principal Kevin Barber felt that students benefited from FUT 60 through their “Drop Everything and Walk,” motivating students to eat breakfast, making students more aware of healthy choices in the taste tests and having students self monitor their healthy eating and 60 minutes of daily exercise on the FUT 60 web site! If you are an interested student or parent, please email one of the three advisers to be included in the kick off event in August.
Last updated: Jun 21 at 1:34 pm
