Friday, January 17, 2020
Timberwolves win first round at MUDECAS lose second round
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Exeter-Milligan Update: State Report
Pictured
are Maddux Milton, Clayton Pribyl and Kalvin Lock presenting their state
reports to high school students Markus Krupicka and Cade Kresak.
State
Report Project
By
Laura Steuben, Exeter-Milligan 3rd Grade Instructor
Exeter-Milligan’s
3rd-6th graders have been working on a state book report project in library
class. Each student chose a state to investigate and completed a portfolio
about that state. The portfolios included numerous facts and a paragraph about
their state. After our school wide “Better Together” celebration, each student
had the opportunity to share his or her report with some of Mr. Brian Murphy’s
high school History students. This was also an opportunity for the
students to work on their presentation skills.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Exeter-Milligan Update: E-M Students Chosen to Perform at Doane Fall Festival of Winds
Two Exeter-Milligan students, Braden Capek and Caitlin
Murphy, participated in the Doane Fall Festival of Winds in November.
Braden performed in the Festival Band under the direction of Dr. Larry Blocher
from Troy University. Caitlin performed in the Honor Band under the
direction of Dr. Jay Gilbert.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Exeter-Milligan Update: Capek chosen for Concordia Honor Band
Braden Capek was selected, through a video audition, to
participate in the Concordia Musical Arts Day honor band. The honor band was
directed by Andrew Schultz. Braden rehearsed on the Concordia campus on
November 8 and performed in an evening concert.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Exeter-Milligan Update: Art News
Art
News Update
By
Lisa Kanode, K-12 Art Instructor at Exeter-Milligan
We’ve
learned to recycle clay in the art room so with all the extra clay laying
around we have taken advantage of making a lot of hand built and wheel thrown
pottery. Fifth graders are doing a simple study of ancient Greek Amphora’s and
how they were used and then they take their hand at building coil bowls of
their own. Second graders make fish sculptures out of clay and work on creating
textures in their clay that look a little fishy. First graders make pinch pots
and experiment with the different colors of glaze. We haven’t yet gotten to the
3rd grade castles and 4th grade platters, but the high school art students have
built slab pottery and a few even worked on the pottery wheel, some of them
with great success! Some of the high school students are learning about loading
and unloading the kiln and how often you have to check and adjust the
temperature of the kiln. In our fast paced world with so much instant
gratification, this is one art activity that teaches and encourages patience as
after building your piece, you then wait 1-2 weeks for it to slowly and surely
dry completely before doing a bisque firing, then you get to see if your piece
survived the kiln. After that you can add the glaze and then wait for enough
pieces to be ready to load the kiln and have it fired again. The pieces will be
on display in the school libraries and at the schools music concerts. Please be
careful when handling your pottery as some of us have already learned that they
are more fragile than we think, and while most broken things are fixable, they
will never be quite the same again! A quote by Maya Angelou reminds us to keep
practicing our creativity, which I encourage you all to do! “You can’t use up
creativity, the more you use, the more you have.” In other words if we don’t
use our creativity the opposite is sure to happen and we will lose it! My
student’s come into the art room and it’s like a weight is lifted off their
shoulders, it is one place they can think their own thoughts and do their own
work, no one paper should be the same, therefore no really right or wrong
answer is discovered, just lots of thinking and discovering going on.
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