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SIUSLAW NEWS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER ❚ JANUARY 2017 SCHOOL ZONE A Monthly Newsletter for the Siuslaw and Mapleton Schools and Florence Community PTA T H E S E ST U D E N T S A R E G O I N G P LA C ES Siuslaw Middle and Elementary students compete in annual Geography Bee F All of these students scored highly in the preliminary qualifying round — 25 moderate- ly hard multiple-choice questions offered to all fourth- through eighth-grade students. The top 11 students from the elementary and the top 10 students from the middle school were declared finalists. The winners at Siuslaw Elementary School were: third place Tyler Johns, second place Riley Olson and first place Jesse Holden. At Siuslaw Middle School, the winners were: third place Matthew Fusaro, second place Owen Harklerode and first place Brea Blankenship. Both Jesse and Brea will now take the state qualifying test to see if they will be able to compete in the state finals. Congratulations to all of our participants! Go Viks! — Submitted by Patrick Wondra SMS Finalists SES Finalists SMS Champion Brea Blankenship Top 11 Siuslaw Elementary School Students Thorny R o s e O n Jan. 23, Mapleton Elementary School and Ms. Pam's first and second grade combined class got a class pet. The students spent two weeks researching and reporting on the care and requirements of their new pet and were thrilled to finally meet Rose, a one year old hedgehog. Rose will be in class with the students for the rest of the year and will support the stu- dents as a reward for hard work accomplished. The students are enjoying feeding her meal worms and watching her run (faster than you would imagine) on the reading rug when the day's work is completed. Welcome to Mapleton, Rose! — Submitted by Pamela Lauer 2017 Project Graduation’s Pre-Superbowl Bingo Bash event will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, at Three Rivers Casino Resort Event Center on the the night before the Super Bowl. Games start at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person and include two bingo cards good for 15 games. All proceeds from this event go to Project Graduation, the all-night drug- and alcohol-free graduation party for the 2017 Siuslaw graduating class. Call Michelle Rose at 541- 999-0401 for tickets or more information. Top 10 Siuslaw Middle School Students Bringing color to lines of music SHS students create beautiful collaboration with elementary students, musicians iuslaw High in the song in the School students background. Cesar Castillo When Tara and her and Benjamin two Cabin Fever NW Cahoon each created band mates, Dianne three coloring art Boschler and Ed pieces which were Johnson, arrived at used by Mapleton, the theater on Jan. Siuslaw and 11, they were stunned Highland (Reedsport) to see the artwork elementary school filling the walls students to illustrate which illustrated six the six songs heard at of the nine songs the Friends of the they would sing that Florence Events day. Center’s Winter Caldwell said, “I Music Festival Kids think this is the most Concerts on Jan. 12 . wonderful thing that Cesar’s drawing has every happened illustrated the song Benjamin Cahoon and his coloring to me as a per- Cesar Castillo and his coloring “Orphan Train,” former... to know that page depicting “Mary Alice,” a page depicting “Orphan Train” written by the late song about a woman who married all these children lis- won Producer’s Choice at the a fiddler, won Cabin Fever NW Winter Music Festival Kids Utah Phillips. It tened to our music Performer’s Choice. Concerts in January. was based on the true and created art based story of orphans who on the words.” City, the outcome of many of the were sent across the U.S. by The Pearson added, “While all the art- orphan’s lives was positive. Children’s Village, The Children’s Aid work we receive is wonderful, we the Cabin Fever NW, the WMF Kids Society and The New York Foundling volunteers always have a few favorites. Concert artists, brought this magical Society from the 1850s until 1929. And we treasure each and every picture Each year, the coloring art adorns the as we affix it to the wall of the FEC walls of the Winter Music Festival Main Theater.” beginning with the Thursday Kids Pearson thanked the WMF volun- Concert and remains on display up teers, the Friends of the FEC, the FEC through the Sunday daytime shows. staff and the Siuslaw, Mapleton and The coloring sheet Cesar is holding Highland teachers, administrators and was the “Producer’s Choice” of WMF bus drivers for making it all happen Kids Concert Producer Rachel Pearson. each year. “Because of its attention to detail, its Special thanks also go out to Mrs. careful coloring technique, and the stu- song to the students of western Lane Kim Pickell, SHS Art Teacher; the SHS County, and the students in turn dent’s use of the swirling images that Key Club kids for help with art installa- brought the words alive with their suggest Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ tion; Ms. Sandy Kuhlman, who helps crayons, markers, pens and watercolors. with everything on the Kids Concert painting, this one touched me in a way Benjamin created three coloring art that brought the wonder, uncertainty day, including traffic patterns and seat- and hope of those children of a century pieces, and his representation of the ing; the fabulous FEC stage/sound/light- song, “Mary Alice,” was the ago to life,” Pearson said. “I also ing crews; and Mrs. Deb Dietrich, the “Performer’s Favorite.” appreciated Cesar’s creating a dynamic Siuslaw Elementary General Music The song was written by Cabin Fever Teacher for making sure the students world that suggested the movement of NW’s organizer, Tara Caldwell. She the train and a station from a long- hear and learn the music at 97J. based it on the recollections of her bygone era.” Pearson also noted, “The Winter great aunt, Mary Alice, who lived in While “Orphan Train” is the sad Music Festival was the first time Cabin Canada at the turn of the 20th Century, story of orphans being sent across the Fever NW had created a concert strictly and chose to marry a fiddler. The pic- U.S. in hopes that they could find lov- for children, and all participants hope it ture by Ben shows a rose placed on the ing homes, or at least, escape their har- will not be the last.” — Submitted by fiddle, and includes words mentioned rowing lives in the slums of New York Rachel Pearson S CYAN MAGENTA YELLoW BLACK SES Champion Jesse Holden inalists in the National Geographic Society’s Geography Bee at Siuslaw Elementary School and Siuslaw Middle School competed Jan. 17 at each school. At the elemetary school, those competing for the championship were: fourth-graders Joel Sissel and Anthony McCabe; and fifth- graders Jaldyn Collins, Jesse Holden, Tony Johns, Ty Malloy, Brynlee Manue, Riley Olson, Ally Sevilla, Spencer Tucker and Rosa Velasco. At the middle school, those competing for the championship were: sixth-graders Michaela Butchart, Ava Glowacki and Owen Harklerode; seventh-graders CJ Franklin, Camp LaCouture and Jason Rawlins; and eighth-graders Brea Blankenship, Rhys Fleming, Matthew Fusaro and Laena Jagoe.
