THE LOVETT MIDDLE SCHOOL
DAILY BULLETIN
Monday
31 March 2008

PHOTO OF THE DAY:

Have you noticed The Character Gallery on the 7th grade hall? Earlier this semester 7th Grade students read Little Women and Tom Sawyer in their single gender English classes. Small groups studied different characters and brought those characters to life with their reflective collages. To view all the collages, click here or go see them in person! Well done 7th Grade!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1.Regular Monday Schedule TODAY! MS Assembly ~ 12:55 – 1:20 p.m., Theater
“ERB Make-ups Begin at 8:10 a.m. TODAY. Report to Ms. Traver in the Middle School Office. Ms. Traver

2.ADVISORY DUTY for THIS week: Ms. Robertson, Mrs. Walton, and Mrs. Mackinson

MENU for TODAY: Spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti with marinara, broccoli, garlic toast, chilled fruit for salads, grapes

1st Lunch = 7th 2nd Lunch = 8th 3rd Lunch = 6th

3.Please excuse the following seventh grade Vestry students at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 2, for Chapel:
“Mrs. Drinkard’s Advisory: Griffin Medendorp, Siera Oliver
“Ms Darmo’s Advisory: Shahla Delawalla
“Mr. Posten’s Advisory: Margot Williams, Maggie Sinkler
“Mrs. Smith’s Advisory: Laura Carr, Margaret Flock, Jasmine Movagharnia
“Ms. Sterne’s Advisory: Forrest Bell, Elizabeth Bogue, Julie Ann Holder, Suzannah Tarkington
“Mrs. Walton’s Advisory: Julia Clayton, Lexie Dalton, Cole Hagood, Laura Howell, Annabel Kupke, Ellie Mann, Anna Sewell, Abigail Van Horn
“Ms. Croley’s Advisory: Heather Degenkolb, Gayle Jenks, Emma Smith, Shad Sodel, Sterrett Woods
Seventh Grade: Please check the Vestry Bulletin Board on the Seventh Grade Crossover for your job description.
All students please remember your offering. Your offering will support for The Atlanta Youth Academy. Please be generous! Ms. Husmann

4.Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth grade Choral Groups attending Large Group Performance Evaluation this week!
“Choral Students: Please remember to return your permission forms to Mrs. Martin by TOMORROW, April 1. Do not forget your proper attire! (Ladies – gray skort, new chapel shirt, black hose, black flat shoes; Gentlemen – khaki pants, long sleeved white chapel shirt, Lovett tie, dress shoes)
“Seventh and Eighth Grade Chorus: Wednesday, April 2 – 9:00 am – depart Lovett; 11:15 am – depart North Atlanta HS for Lovett
“Sixth Grade Chorus: Thursday, April 3 – 8:15 am – depart Lovett; 10:30 am – depart North Atlanta HS for Lovett
“Choral Students please remember that you are responsible for all classwork, assignments, and homework you miss.
Mrs. Martin

5.Middle School Athletic Events for the Week:
TOMORROW, April 1MS Boys Lacrosse vs. West Cobb @ HOME (Denny), 6:00 p.m.
MS Boys Soccer vs. Holy Innocents’ @ HOME (Carter), 5:30 p.m.
MS Girls Soccer vs. Holy Innocents; @ HOME (Carter). 4:30 p.m.
MS Tennis vs. Wesleyan @ HOME, 4:00 p.m.
JV Girls Gold vs. Westminster @ Bobby Jones, 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 28th/9th Baseball vs. St. Pius @ HOME, 5:30 p.m.
MS Track vs. Westminster/Marist/LMC @ HOME, 4:00 p.m.
JV Girls Tennis vs. Walker @ Fair Oakes Tennis Center, 4:00 p.m.
MS Tennis vs. Pace @ Bitsy Grant, 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 3JV Boys Golf vs. {ace @ Legacy, 3:50 p.m.
MS Boys Soccer vs. Marist @ Marist, 5:30 p.m.
MS Girls Soccer vs. Marist @ Marist, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, April 4JV Girls Lacrosse vs. Marist @ HOME, 5:45 p.m.
Saturday, April 5MS Tennis vs. Whitefield @ HOME, 1:00 p.m.
8th/9th Baseball vs. Westminster (DH) @ Westminster, 11:00 a.m.
MS Boys Lacrosse vs. North Cobb/Darlington @ Darlington, 2:00/3:30 p.m.
MS Track vs. Holy Innocents’ @ Holy Innocents’. 8:00 a.m.
MS Boys Lacrosse vs. North Cobb @ Darlington, 2:00 p.m.

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” -Flora Edwards

In our MS assembly last Monday Charlie I., a Lovett 6th grader, bravely exercised his student voice. He was inspired by his brother and a website to do something good for someone else while “literally” doing something good for himself…and he wanted others to join the cause. The website, freerice.com, builds vocabulary and rewards mastery with grains of rice delivered by the U.N. to needy families around the world. Nearly 20 billion grains of rice have been donated since the website launched in October 2007, and Charlie wanted all the students to be aware of how much fun the site is and how easy it is to help someone else. Together we brainstormed ways he could get the word out, and he chose to compose this Jing screencast(00000007.swf) and design a postcard (above) for each student.

Charlie should be very proud of himself. The kids responded with great enthusiasm, and he learned how technology can help him communicate an idea. Great job, Charlie.

Thinking forward: How can we help Charlie keep this idea alive as a community? How might we nurture Charlie’s interest in Africa, helping others, and leadership?

I created a short screencast here using Jing which explains how to incorporate popular music into their blogs. We’ve chosen to have them either embed lyrics or YouTube videos instead of audio tracks. Complete audio tracks raise DRM-issues, and WordPressMU doesn’t support embedding sampled music widgets like iMix.

The demo samples I was using follow below:

I really like the Dave Matthews Band. Although they weren’t around when I was in college, they remind me of what I might have listened to at that time. Here is a song most everyone knows from DMB, “Everyday”. This is a sample of an enbedded video:

I also like U2, and in particular I like the song “I Still Haven’t Found What I Am Looking For.” My son’s 5th grade class read a novel and listened to this song, then after some discussion they wrote incredible, insightful reflections about what they were reading. This is an example of using hypertext to link you to the video which isn’t embeddable but which does play on the YouTube site.

David Gray’s Greatest Hits just came out. His song Babylon is one of those songs with melodies that stick in your head. I can’t show you a video with this song, but I can share the lyrics:

Babylon
By David Gray

Friday night I’m going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Well looking back through time
You know it’s clear that I’ve been blind
I’ve been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule

Saturday I’m running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowd I’m pushing
Chemicals all rushing through my bloodstream
Only wish that you were here
You know I’m seeing it so clear
I’ve been afraid
To tell you how I really feel
Admit to some of those bad mistakes I’ve made

If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now

Babylon, Babylon

Sunday all the lights of London
Shining , Sky is fading red to blue
I’m kicking through the Autumn leaves
And wondering where it is you might be going to
Turning back for home
You know I’m feeling so alone
I can’t believe
Climbing on the stair
I turn around to see you smiling there
In front of me

If you want it
Come and get it
Crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was
Never in doubt
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now
Let go your heart
Let go your head
And feel it now

Babylon, Babylon, Babylon

Source: http://lyrics.com accessed on 1/10/08