A+14 November 3 - 16, 2007
Youth
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Hamilton Prep
Workshop connects
Pop Tops – Mrs. Tambone is collecting pop tops for the Ronald McDonald House. Send your tabs in
literacy with music
a plastic bag for a worthy cause.
Math help – Mrs. Gaston in Room C209 offers math tutoring for students who want to catch up on
Educators and parents learn to unleash the power of music at Music
their math skills. Seventh-grade days are Wednesdays and Fridays; eighth-grade days are Mondays and
Thursdays. Sessions run from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Movement and Literacy, a two-hour program sponsored by the Ocotillo East
—Maureen Andera
Valley Reading Council, an Arizona Reading Association (ARA) affiliate. The
session starts at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 28, and refreshments are served.
Chandler High Wolves
The event, which is facilitated by Regina Nixon, executive director for
the Phoenix Conservatory of Music, explores the mysteries of music and
Alumni needed – The Counseling Department seeks CHS alumni interested in speaking to students
about their career area. Call Curtis Owen at 480-812-7733 or Rosanne Shaw at 480-812-7731.
movement to build skills. Attendees discover how to use music and movement
Swim sponsors – Corporate sponsors are needed to provide support for Desert Thunder Aquatics’
as a learning tool to enhance reading and literacy and learn more about how
2007 Holiday Festival Event, a competitive swimming invitational Dec. 6 through 9 at the new CHS Aquatics
Facility. Youths ages 8 to college age who are members of USA Swimming will attend from Arizona as
music plays an important role in children’s lives and how it affects their
well as neighboring states. About 600 to 900 individuals compete over the 3.5-day event. Desert Thunder
growth.
Aquatics has Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship packages from $1,000 to $10,000. Contact Scott Lathrop
at 480-209-7584, email
slathrop3@cox.net or visit
www.desertthunderaquatics.org.
Cost for the seminar is $3 for Ocotillo East Valley Reading Council or ARA
—Margaret Tierney, Cat Beard
members and $23 for nonmembers, which includes the membership fee and
makes the attendee eligible for all future meetings and member benefits. RSVP
Summit School
by emailing Ellen Welty at
Ellen.Welty@asu.edu; registration is limited to 50.
The Ocotillo East Valley Reading Council serves all of Chandler, Gilbert,
Science Program - Summit School of Ahwatukee seventh-
Tempe and the East Valley. ARA is a nonprofit organization that advocates
graders are wrapping up a unit on the human brain and senses. A
large portion of this unit was looking at the components and
strong, balanced reading skills
function of the eye. During the last few months, students learned
and language arts programs for all
all the major parts and functions of the eye, then examined and
dissected a cow eye. The students also used a number of different
learners; provides members with
measuring techniques to find the placement of photoreceptors and
timely materials and information on
the optic disk on their individual retinas. Students then applied all
of the information as they created replicas of their own eyes with current reading and language arts
specific visual field angles.
research, trends and instructional
approaches; and sponsors
professional development and
networking opportunities.
Music Movement and Literacy
is held at Tempe T.J. Pappas
Elementary School, 1938 E. Apache
Blvd. in Tempe. To learn more
about the program, call Nixon at
602-353-9900 or visit
PCMrocks.org.
For additional information in ARA,
visit
www.azreadingassoc.com.
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