 SOUTH PACIFIC
Props Needed!!!!
The props crew is in search of the following items for the musical. Please contact Laura Gaudette at gaudettelaura@hotmail.com
Palm leaf hats
Palm leaf fans
Grass skirts
Boar's tooth bracelet
Pistol [fake!] and belt
Old-fashioned military style portable radio set and headphones
Military style jackets (green or beige)
Military style canvas duffle bags
Military style canvas field packs (around the waist type)
Canteens
Jerry cans (metal)
Shrunken head [artificial!]
Old-fashioned/military style walkie-talkie
Galvanized pail
Wire desk basket
Metal flashlights
Gold pocket watch [no family heirlooms, please]
Hawaiian/Tropical decorations such as
€ carved coconut heads
€ tropical beach stuff
€ Strips of matting
Spring Auction Update - New Date and Location
Please note that while this year's auction will still take place in May in Walpole, the date and the location have changed. We will once again have the event at Alyson's Orchard in Walpole on Friday, May 29. (NOT May 15th at Boggy Meadow Farm as initially stated) Please make note of the change and we hope you will plan on joining us for this festive occasion. We will be honoring Marcia Leader, who is retiring at the end of the school year, and raising funds for our scholarship program - particularly important this year. We already have some wonderful donations including a free airplane ride, a week's stay in Hawaii, paintings and jewelry, musical entertainment, a cheese fondue for 10-12 people, memorabilia from the American Idol show and much more! Donation forms have gone out already. If you didn't receive one or need extras, let us know. If you are able to donate something yourself or can procure a donation from a business you know, we'd really appreciate it.
Thanks for your help in making the " 'Til the Cows Come Home" (formerly known as Boggie Meadow Boogie) auction a success! See you in Walpole on May 29th!
- Mark and Kathleen
OPUS 18 WINNERS! -Congratulations to all the participants in the Opus 18 competition of the VT Midi Project: Michaela Shea-Gander and Antonia Dufort, Nathaniel Todd-Long, Julian Stolper and Traven Gaffney, and Jamie Lumley. "Rising Star" by Michaela and Antonia and "Memories" by Nathaniel were selected to be performed by professional musicans in the live concert on April 29th. KUDOS to the winning composers!
The Summer Camp Forms Have Been Sent
June 29th - July 24th, 9:00 - 3:30
New This Summer: Ropes Course, Art of Mexico, Bookmaking, Art and Nature, Batik, Circus, Printmaking, and Weaving. The Young Explorers camp has 4 new offerings for 4 & 5 year olds.
Please let me know if you did not receive a form in the mail or if you need an additional copy. If you know of any families who might like to receive information about our camp you could certainly pass along another set of forms or give me their contact information. Our form and program information are also all on the website: TGS Summer Program
DO YOU KNOW THE ALPHABET? The library could use some help shelving books. Even as little as 15 minutes would be appreciated. If you can pitchin, please let me know or just stop by. A small amount of instruction is necessary, so your initial visit should occur when I don't have a class. Thank you, Ponnie
SAVE THE DATE! THE ANNUAL TGS YARD SALE! Saturday, May 23 (raindate Sunday). It's the way to restore order in your home, recycle AND raise money for TGS...and maybe even find a perfect item to buy. As you embark on spring cleaning, SAVE your piles of stuff. We'll even provide a place for you to store it NOW, if you need to get it out of the house. Benefits 5-8th grade trip budgets. Contact Evie Lovett 387-5854/eviejeff@sover.net with questions or if you want to help.READING CHALLENGE! -I hope that everyone has enjoyed this special emphasis on reading and that you've made it a family affair.
Thanks for the support you have given your children. Ponnie
POETRY MONTH -Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Edna St. Vincent Milay, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes...Poets and poetry enthusiasts abound at The Grammar School. Come join Ned, Emily, Gia and more to read your favorite poem at an all school meeting. Let me know if you or you and another parent or child would like to share with us at the all school meeting (12:50-1:25) on Wednesday, April 29th. The more the merrier. Ponnie
GREEN NOTES:The TGS library is committed to offering students and staff books on the environment, environmental literacy, and sustainability. Children will find non-fiction studies of animals and habitats and books on population, garbage, energy use and climate change, and numerous nature-oriented books of fiction and poetry. The faculty shelf includes Richard Louv's provocative study of "nature deficit disorder," Last Child in the Woods, David Orr's Earth in Mind, and A Way with Waste: a Waste Management Curriculum for Schools. A recent acquisition is Jeanette Winter's picture biography, Wangari's Trees, the true story the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai whose Green Belt Movement has led to the planting of thirty million trees in Kenya. If you would like to know more about the TGS library holdings, or have any suggestions for must-have books on the environment, nature or environmental literacy, our librarian Ponnie Derby would love to hear from you. pderby@tgs-putney.org.
SPRING SPORTS UPDATE: Thursday Mountain Biking (on the dirt roads while the woods are still wet) will start April 16, 3:15 - 4:30 pm, weather permitting. Mary Heller Osgood and Karen Wu will lead the group. Wednesday Game Day: We still need some parent volunteers and a few more students! Please email Mary at mosgood@tgs-putney.org if you'd like to lead an activity for an afternoon. Thanks, Mary
DONATIONS OF NON-PERISHABLE FOODS -
STUDENTS IN FIRST AND SECOND GRADES ARE COLLECTING ITEMS FOR THE PUTNEY FOOD SHELF FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL. CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE BROUGHT TO THESE CLASSROOMS AND TO THE BOX OUTSIDE THE OFFICE.
~THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR ONGOING GENEROSITY~
APRIL 17 PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCE DAY - Call or email Tammy to schedule an appointment. tamwhite@tgs-putney.org.
APRIL 17 SOUTH PACIFIC REHEARSAL starting time has been changed to 11am instead of 12 and will go till 4:00.
VISIT THE TGS UNDERGROUND on the web for links to South Pacific, 7th grade homework, library and more.
COMMUNITY NEWS!
FILM SCREENING OF "CONSUMING KIDS: THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD" Brattleboro - The new documentary "Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood", will be shown on Wednesday, April 29th at the downtown campus of the Marlboro College Graduate School. Co-sponsored by Know Media, Healthy Media Choices and the Windham Child Care Association, this film will be shown at 7:00 and is open to all. (The film is not recommended for viewing by children.)
"Consuming Kids" is a Media Education Production that targets the multi-billion-dollar youth marketing industry and takes a close look at the effects such marketing is having on children today. "We decided to show this film so that parents and other child care-givers could learn to make their way through the challenges of commercialization", says Robin Rieske, coordinator of Know Media. Rieske also adds that although the American Pediatrics Association recommends no screen time before the age of 2, "marketers love to make parents feel guilty if they don't feed their kids a steady media diet of TV, computers, and so called 'educational' videos". As Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia states "This powerful, disturbing and heartbreaking film has the power to change the way we treat our children. It is the best possible parent education product. I recommend it to schools, universities, churches, mosques and synagogues."
The film showing will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with members of Know Media, Healthy Media Choices and Windham Child Care Association. The discussion will include helpful tips on navigating the media culture with children. For more information about this event, please contact Robin Rieske at Know Media, (802) 258-2402. The film is free to the public. Donations are accepted to cover costs. A light refreshment will be provided.
Sadie Fischesser
Executive Director
Windham Child Care Association
sadie@windhamchildcare.org
802-254-5332 ext. 311
INSIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY 3 DAY WORKSHOP - April 21st-23rd 12:30-4:30 for more information call 251-9960 or www.insight-photography.org
POETRY READING AT GREAT RIVER ARTS - Great River Arts in Bellows Falls, Vermont, is hosting a poetry reading (in conjunction with National Poetry Month and Bellows Falls Third Friday Art Walk) on April 17 at 7:00 pm at our studios at 33 Bridge Street. Poet and Great River Faculty Member Linda Aldrich will be hosting the evening's events, which will include time for an open reading. Participating poets include Alice Fogel, Douglas Korb, Roderick Bates, James Fowler, Betsy Snider, Barbara Benoit, Pam Bernard, Tim Mayo and Barbara Homans. Other poets (and Great River Faculty) who may be attending include New Hampshire Poet Laureate Pat Fargnoli, Pam Mandell and Joni Cole. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Great River Arts at 802-463-3330 or info@greatriverarts.org. Learn more about Great River Arts at www.greatriverarts.org.
A FEW SPACES STILL AVAILABLE for Dan Snow Stone Walling Workshop. Learn what it takes to make a dry stone wall from stone wall artist and Dummerston-resident Dan Snow. Participants will work with the stones by applying four basis principles and employing a few simple techniques. Each stage in the construction process will be explained and demonstrated. Dan Snow is an art maker and dry stone craftsman. He creates site-specific, environmental works, builds traditional dry stone constructions and assembles small-scale, stand-alone sculpture.
The workshop will be held May 9 and 10 on-site in Dummerston, Vermont, and also July 4 and 5 and October 24 and 25. The workshop cost is $300 per weekend with a discount for participation in multiple weekends. To reserve space or if you have questions, contact Great River Arts at 802-463-3330 or info@greatriverarts.org.
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