Time for the March Newsletter
Your Special Area Teachers Have News for YOU!
Art at CCES
Did you know that we utilize technology in the art room all the time?! Technology will never replace the kinesthetic art making that students continue to have and love, but it can be a great companion to enhance their learning!
Here are ten of our favorite artsy websites for you to explore with your child:
1. The Collage Machine: This website allows students to combine shapes, photographs and signs. The image can be manipulated through rotation, change in size, or transparency.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
2. MOMA – Destination Modern Art: This website allows elementary students to tour the Museum of Modern Art in a fun, interactive way! Games, animation, and sounds enhance this museum tour.
http://www.moma.org/destination/
3. Mr. Picassohead: Students can assemble, color, and manipulate a Picasso inspired face they create on this site. Once finished, students can post their creation in the online gallery.
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
4. Wallovers: This website allows students to draw symmetrical, repeating patterns on a virtual wall. Colors, sizes, and shapes can be altered to create a tessellating design.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/wallovers.htm
5. Scribbler: This website allows students to draw something on the drawing pad. Once complete, students press the “start scribbler” key. Their drawings transform into scribble, spider webbed versions of the original.
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
6. Albright Knox Art Games: This museum website offers art games for children. Students can explore artworks, create artworks and learn about art through engaging, interactive games.
http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index_launched.html
7. Zoo Alphabet: This alphabet website allows students to choose a letter. That letter then moves to the left the screen where it becomes the beginning letter of an animal. The letters that spell the animal’s name then move about the screen until the letters themselves form the picture of the animal they name.
http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf
8. Build Your Wild Self!: This site allows you to create a self-portrait that is a bit on the wild side! You can add tiger stripes, butterfly wings, lizard tail, and much more. Then you can title your work and print it for yourself.
www.buildyourwildself.com
9. Google Art Project: Tour museums throughout the world. Zoom in so close on your favorite works of art that you can see artist’s brushstrokes.
www.googleartproject.com
10. Meet me at Midnight in the Smithsonian: A fun, interactive, mystery game tour through the Smithsonian
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/midnight/default_flash.html
If you enjoyed those, check out Mrs. K's website at for thirteen more!
Music at CCES
March is Music In Our Schools Month and CCES has definitely lived up to that title! Here are some highlights:
Music In Our Schools Month bulletin board: each week, students have been answering questions about which songs make them remember, feel or think of certain things. Teachers’ answers have also been recorded and students can watch their teachers’ answers by scanning a QR code.
We started the month with the annual Fulton County Choral Clinic. Eight CCES students participated in the clinic that was held on Saturday, March 5th. After working with music teachers from throughout Fulton County all morning, they had lunch then had a full dress rehearsal of the songs they learned. The day culminated in an afternoon performance for family and friends. We all had a great time!
On Tuesday, March 8th, our Third Graders rocked the CCES cafeteria with a wonderful performance of “I Had An Old Coat.” Each class was featured playing instruments, singing, dancing and acting. One teacher said it was the best third grade concert ever!
On Saturday, March 12th, four CCES students represented not just our school but Fulton County as well when they participated in the Atlanta Honor Orff Ensemble. They had been working after school for six weeks to learn the music with Mr. DeStefano before the daylong practice with other Atlanta area 5th graders. Just as with the choral clinic, they performed a concert in the afternoon for family and friends. It was a truly special day of music making!
On Sunday, March 20th, the CCES Orff Ensemble will perform at Play the Recorder Day in Doraville, GA. They will be playing two recorder pieces with Orff instruments and singing. Mr. DeStefano will also be performing as part of the Atlanta Recorder Society.
Did you know that one of our very own music teachers performs every week with the North Atlanta Pipes & Drums? It’s true! Mrs. Ingraham and her husband both play drums in the bagpipe and drum group that competes around the southeast and performed in the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 12th. Though she plays the bass drum right now, Mrs. Ingraham is taking bagpipe lessons and hopes to be playing them with the group soon.
P.E. at CCES
Hello CCES families: Hopefully March will bring us some warm weather to get outside and be more active. In Physical Education this month we will be completing our Fitnessgram fitness testing that is required by the state of Georgia that measures your students health related fitness level based on standards set by The Cooper Institute. The areas include: Cardiovascular health, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body mass index. We will also start some spring activities like baseball/softball skills (catching, throwing, hitting) and lacrosse (cradling, scooping, catching, passing).