As part of their Jan. 23 music lesson, Miss Camille’s Tiny Toppers preschool students explored their ability to create sensory experiences using a handheld musical instrument called the cabasa.
Tiny Toppers Roll the Cabasa
As part of their Jan. 23 music lesson, Miss Camille’s Tiny Toppers preschool students explored their ability to create sensory experiences using a handheld musical instrument called the cabasa. Cabasas, which are designed with a handle similar to that of a rattle or maraca, feature wrapped, threaded metal beads, enabling the students to roll the instruments on their own hands and arms and create both tactile and auditory input.
Led by music teacher Miss Carol, the students simultaneously sang “Roll the Cabasa.” The song, written by Amy Kalas Buser of Wholesome Harmonies LLC, is sung to the tune of “La Cucaracha.”
Clay Masks
Mrs. Kristie Heron’s fifth-grade students recently completed a multi-phase project in which students determined an animal they feel best represents them, sketched the animal’s face on paper, wrote a description of the animal based on their own personality and then created the animal face mask from clay.
Dogs, rhinoceroses, sloths, cheetahs and cats were just a few of the various animal representations chosen by students. For example, student Clayton Hallam created a clay dog mask and described the dog on paper as liking sports, cruises, roller coasters, the beach, the outdoors, and favorite colors including pink, red, blue and green. Clayton explained his selection was because similar to his animal counterpart, he himself is active and sometimes silly.
Junior Model U.N.
Chardon Schools is proud of the three eighth-grade students who participated as delegates in the Winter Junior Model United Nations conference at John Carroll University Jan. 8-9. Each delegate assumed the role of an ambassador to the U.N. to debate international topics and collaborate to arrive at global solutions.
Lauren Lester represented Ireland in the UNICEF committee, while Julia Ellington and Megan Robie each represented Japan in the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Lauren won the top honor in her committee, the Gavel Award.
“All three students made Chardon proud,” said CHS Model U.N. adviser Kristen Niedzwiecki.
Q Marries U
During what has become an annual tradition for Mrs. Patty Kingzett’s kindergarten class at Munson Elementary School, students recently held a wedding ceremony for the marriage of the letters “Q” and “U.” Each kindergartner served as a wedding attendant, creatively dressing as his or her assigned letter.
Girls carried miniature bouquets while boys wore bowties featuring the letters “Q” and “U”. To authenticate the event, a marriage certificate for “Q” and “U” was presented featuring the signature of a local judge.
“Everyone did a great job dressing up as their letter for our event,” said Mrs. Kingzett. “Of course, we had cake and ring pops. A big thanks to parent Regina Colombi for helping us during the ‘Q’ and ‘U’ wedding.”
Chardon BOE Meetings
Chardon Schools understands that attendance at a school board meeting can sometimes not fit with personal schedules or may conflict with other activities taking place the same evening. Therefore, as of 2020, the district plans to provide video recaps of its regular board meetings.
The first of these videos, now available on the BoardDocs page of the chardonschools.orgwebsite, is an overview of the Jan. 13 regular board meeting. The community can also continue to access complete agendas of the board meetings via BoardDocs.
