|
FROM THE DESK OF STEVE LORENZ
| Global Education Theme
We are very excited to begin our Our Global Education Study and celebration of Leyeyo, an eighth grade student from Tanzania who has been at TGS for five years. Our study began last week with an hour and a half presentation about the Maasai Culture and Tanzania. The presentation, consisting of a slide show, talk and displays, was prepared and presented by Leyeyo and his U.S. parents, Sarah and Paul. As we celebrate the Maasai culture and Leyeyo, individual classes have been discussing and studying various aspects of the culture, history, and geography of this region of Africa, which encompasses Tanzania and Kenya.
Today, and for several subsequent Wednesdays (November 2, November 9, November 16, and November 30) from 12:50-2:15, we will mix our students into multiage groups to participate in various faculty/staff led activities. These activities include: Cooking, Beading and Fabric, Tinga Tinga painting, Games, Beading Design, Creating a Marketplace, and Savanna Animals.
Please feel free to visit or join us on any of these days.
Welcome to our New Trustees
I am pleased and excited to welcome three new trustees to the board: Julie Burns, current parent of Olivia in first grade; Natalie Thomson, current parent of Quinn in seventh grade and Gwyneth in fifth grade; and Bill Helm, current grandparent of Abby Brennan in fifth grade and Katy Brennan in seventh grade. We will have a more in depth profile of them in the near future. These new trustees join our nine other board members: Ray Hutchins, Reggie Rockefeller, Wendy Brennan, Alyson Opshal, Kimona Alin, Mark Long, Maggie Smith, Peter Howe, and Marcia Leader.
HOS Trustees Report
Please find my October Report to the Trustees on my HOS Page on the TGS website. The trustees met last night and had an informative and productive evening. Please feel free to join us at any of the trustee meetings, which are held from 6:00-8:00 pm in the sixth grade classroom. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 29.
|
|
SPORTS
| |
TGS XC Invitational TODAY - ALL STUDENTS WELCOME, even if this is their first race of the season! Lollipop, .5, 1, and 1.5 mile races. Course walk and Lollipop race at 3:30 pm in the Lower Field.
Friday, Oct. 28 is the final K-1-2 soccer practice and end of season celebration for all K-1-2 soccer players! A huge thanks to Beth and Hop for coaching the younger students this fall!
|
|
Venez tous! Venga todos!
| |
Venez tous! Vengan todos! The French and Spanish classes are very excited to announce our first annual Foreign Language Night to be held on Wednesday, November 2, at TGS. Come celebrate the diversity of the cultures and contexts where Spanish and French are spoken.
Students in grades K-6 will perform songs and other short forms of entertainment in the auditorium from 6:00 to 6:45. Please make sure all children in grades K-6 are in their classrooms by 5:50 pm.
Grades 7 and 8 will present a rich variety of cultural topics in the Upper School from 7:00 to 7:45. Students should be at TGS Upper School no later than 6:45 pm to set up for their presentations.
Please mark your calendars for this special evening, November 2.
We very much hope that all families will be able to attend and enjoy this evening!
Gracias y hasta pronto,
Susan
Merci et à bientôt,
Johanna
|
|
Putney Community Supper Nov. 11
| The Grammar School is pleased to host the Putney Community Supper on Friday, November 11 from 5:30-7pm at the Historical Society/Next Stage building.
We will be serving soups, salad, bread, and dessert, and we'd love your help. If you are willing to contribute any of the following, please contact Tara for details:
2 gallons of soup (we'll offer a meat and a vegetarian option; exact type still to be determined)
2 dozen brownies or cookies
An hour or two of your time to help with setup, serving, or cleanup
We plan to bake bread or rolls with students for the event.
Thank you,
Tara |
|
Open House at TGS November 5
| 
|
ART NEWS!
|
 | | Tinga Tinga painting |
Tanzanian Painting Exhibit at The Grammar School - October 18 to November 15 in the Dorothy Richardson Gallery
New Art Signs and Tour of Outdoor Art on Campus
|
|
Note Taker for Board of Trustee Meetings Needed
| |
The Grammar School Board of Trustees is looking for someone to take notes at their meetings. Trustees meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month from August to June at TGS from 6-8 p.m. A note taker would need to attend each meeting and record in detail the work of the trustees, and compile their notes into minutes. The notetaker would receive $50 payment for each meeting.
|
|
PUTNEY FOOD SHELF
| PUTNEY FOOD SHELF: THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT WAS GIVEN DURING SEPTEMBER! Our many full boxes were delivered and received with great gratitude. The seventh graders are collecting for October. Boxes for your donated items are outside the main office and outside the seventh grade homeroom.
|
|
ORDER TGS T-SHIRTS AND SWEATSHIRTS!
| |
|
|
COMMUNITY NEWS!
| Halloween at the West Hill Shop - Trick or Treat at West Hill Shop from 4-6 pm. First 12 costumed kids get a LivStrong band. Happy Halloween!
West Hill Women's Night - Saturday, Nov. 5 from 5-7pm - An evening of fanciful fun for women! Enticing specials from Isis, Ibex, Mountain Hardware, and Salomon. Indulging products from the Putney Coop and delicious delectables from Meditrina. Network with other women who also love to play outdoors - bring your business cards.
The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical with dancing, starring a wonderful cast of students from Leland and Gray including TGS grad Addie Mahdavi, will be playing on November 10, 11,12 and 13 in the Dutton Gym on Route 30 in Townshend. Times are Thursday at 7:00Pm, Friday at 7:30, Saturday at 3:00 and at 7:30, and Sunday at 3:00. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students. If you have questions please email verbatim@svcable.net, or call 365-7355 X204. Tickets do sell out, so please reserve if possible.
Halloween Happenings at Pierce's Hall - Sat. Oct. 29. 6 pm - Potluck with fun & "scary" games for kids. 7 pm - Halloween Songs with Katie Bowen (TGS parent) & Annie Frelich (of the Annie's). 7:30 - Family Contra Dance. Pierce's Hall is located at 121 E. Putney Falls Rd. off of Rte. 5 in Putney. If you want, come in costume!
Bluebird Orchestra CD Release Party October 29 at 7:00 pm at The Hooker Dunham Theater, 139 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, hookerdunham.org,
802-254 9276.
Hatched from the same nest as The Bluebird Marionette Theatre of Saxtons River, The Orchestra draws its influences from diverse corners, including the Carter Family, The Incredible String Band, Kurt Weill, and Thelonious Monk, while always keeping one foot in traditional American roots music. In any particular tune, you may encounter elements of folk, rock, early Jazz, Klezmer or Polka music. The new self-titled CD is a collection of songs written by Saaf with his wife, artist Julia Zanes, but the band itself is a true collaboration of talented local musicians.
The ensemble features Donald Saaf on vocals, guitar, and reed organ, Duke Johnson on the standup bass, Rick Contino on pedal steel, and Paul Mctaggart on drums. The CD also includes the amazing Anna Patton as a guest artist. Their music has been described as beautiful, sometimes sad, poignant and funny, sung and played with gusto, and sure to delight any audience.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center invites children and adults of all ages to participate in its Fourth Annual LEGO Contest & Exhibit. Entries must be delivered to the Museum on Wednesday, October 26, 4-6 p.m. The opening of the exhibit and awards ceremony will take place Friday, October 28 at 5 p.m., and entries will remain on display through the weekend. For complete guidelines and entry forms, visit www.brattleboromuseum.org or call 802-257-0124, ext. 101.
On Thursday, Peter Mulvey returns to Rockingham with a show at Main Street Arts. Peter is one of the more incredible artists working today - his shows are never boring, and you're guaranteed great guitar, great voice, great songs, great stories. You could sort of compare him to Leo Kottke on guitar, but there's a dirtier funk groove in there, too. You could liken his voice to somewhere between Greg Brown and the guy from the Waterboys who sang "Fisherman's Blues." You could say that his songs and stories dwell in the space between hope and darkness, desperation and the divine, but you'd need to throw in his love for Tin Pan Alley and old show tunes, too. And none of it would be fair to Peter Mulvey because he is -when all's said and done- Peter Mulvey. One of the absolute best artists working today. A guy who keeps it real and keeps us in love with music.
Sure hope you'll be there.
Main Street Arts is located at 37 Main Street in Saxtons River. Doors open at 7:00, with showtime at 7:30. Opening the show will be Carsie Blanton. Tickets are $18 advance and are on sale at Village Square Books and Fat Frank's in Bellows Falls, Misty Valley Books in Chester, and at Turn it Up! in Brattleboro, and online at brattleborotix.com.
Angel tickets (guaranteed front-row seating) are $30 and available online only. The show is a joint presentation of Vermont Festivals, Flying Under Radar and WOOL-FM. For further information, visit flyingunderradar.com or call 802-463-3669. Partial proceeds benefit Main Street Arts. Beverage service by Pleasant Valley Brewing Company.
Here's Peter in a kinda happy mood, playing his meditation on human nature, "Some People": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0nmlXxWyEw&feature=related
Brattleboro Figure Skating Club! Do you like to ice skate?Would you like to learn?You're invited to join the Brattleboro Figure Skating Club!We have a place for everyone from beginners, to recreational skaters, to highly competitive skaters.Ages 4 and above are welcome.We skate Thursday nights at 5:30 at the Nelson Withington Skating Rink at Living Memorial Park in Brattleboro. Opening night is October 27. Please contact Alyson Opsahl (nh.opsahls@gmail.com) for more information.
Monadnock Region Fiddle & Cello Workshop with Greg & Jessie Boardman, Accompanied by Mary Cay Brass on Piano Saturday, November 5, 2011 at The Starving Artist,10 West Street, Keene, NH 03431.
1 pm Advanced, 2 pm Intermediate (and Advanced), 3 pm Beginner (and Intermediate and Advanced), 4-5 pm Contra Dance! Participants will receive sheet music and a CD to prepare workshop tunes for the contra dance. Students do not need to know all the tunes in their level to participate. Contact Jessie Boardman at jessiefiddle@gmail.com.
Harlow Farm is offering a Winter CSA this year!
Harlow Farm Winter CSA has a group forming at TGS. If you are interested in recieving organic and locally grown fresh greens, frozen produce, stored veggies, pastured meats, poultry, eggs, and so much more this winter, contact Tara Meinhard at the school or email me, Jeanette, at jeanettestaley@myfairpoint.net for a brochure. Delivery starts first week of November, so time is running short to join!
Come out & support Putney's own Movie House!!! For the month of October, Next Stage features films celebrating music, musicians, and the creative process. Next Stage features a full size 22' screen and surround sound. 15 Kimball Hill, Putney. Find more information at Facebook/Next Stage Arts or www.nextstagearts.org. Admission by donation.
Next Stage Films coming up soon!
Saturday, October 29th, 7PM - "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Come celebrate Halloween in the weird and wonderful world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter and sing along to The Time Warp!
|
|
|
|
|
|
