Encore Weekly Showcase

Many learners have gone above and beyond in our special content areas, and have really shown their creativity, resourcefulness, passions and interests in the work that they've shared with their learning facilitators! Keep up the great work! New work will be featured here each week!

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These learners are showing great interest in their music work, and carefully completing everything in high quality, attending sessions and just generally being difference makers in music:

The pictures below are the first piano assignment to find "C position." Many learners have keyboards at home, those who don't are finding a way! Some made their own "virtual" keyboards from paper, or are using an online or app version.

Rachel Piefer, 8th grade

Lexi Groff, 8th grade

Anderson Pilsner, 7th grade

Mitchell Eller, 7th grade

Nick Margerum, 7th grade

Avery Yost, 7th grade

Ella Stauffer, 7th grade

Hadassah Brandt, 7th grade

Tyler Lawson, 7th grade

Logan Gebhard, 7th grade

Congrats learners!

Some learners participated in a short "test take" of recording themselves singing 8 measure of one of our songs were were scheduled to sing in competition in May. (obviously cancelled!) This was the product of our first attempt at putting our voices together virtually. They recorded individually, then tracks were edited together in one project.

Carly learned both parts for one of our chorus songs, We Can Dream, (part 1 and part 2) and even recorded the intro on piano. She recorded multiple tracks using Soundtrap, all by herself! Beautiful singing, Carly, those harmonies are amazing! The lyrics are also so inspiring for these times. I may have shed a tear!

5th and 6th graders are boosting spirits by making free choice art!

Each week, artists choose to make art using prompts from our weekly choice board or by following their own interests and passions! Choice-based art is perfectly suited to making art from your home studio.

Here are some examples of what artists are working on:

• Drawing and painting
• Making their own sketchbooks
• Sculpting using natural materials, Legos or recycled materials
• Difference Maker Artists are sharing their chalk art, door decorations, paintings and cards with others
• Culinary Artists are creating works of edible art
• Several artists have made color wheels out of objects at home

Here is a small sampling of the incredible variety of work that artists made this week:

“I made peanut butter cookies and wrote ‘Arts Fun’ on them with icing.” Aiden Heim, 5th grader

In response to setting up a home studio, 5th grader Laney Hollinger shared: “These are coffee cans I painted to hold gel pens and colored pencils.”

6th grader Adelle Harrill used the Artist Studio Habit of Mind “Envision” to create this painting. She wrote, “I had an idea about having birds deliver mail instead of mailmen.”

6th grader Haley Landis made edible art. She wrote, “These are my Fruit Flowers!”

5th Grader Ryleigh Winters made “Apple Family Edible Art - apples, strawberry, peanut butter, wonton noodles and candy eyes”.

5th grader Jaida Redcay made art with her father. “I got old wood and sanded it then we used water color paint. Then we painted family on it. Me and my dad did it together.”

6th grader Jesse High made a ship in a bottle: “Made this after getting it for a Easter present and now just finishing it.”

Mallory Kauffman, Aaron Vogel, Caleigh Fitzsimmons, Reagan Ibach, Zoey Johnston, Ryan Kenneff, Laci Nelson, & Brent Wolfe.

These learners have gone above and beyond in participating in FLEX so far this marking period! Keep up the great work! Danke Schön! Gracias!

5th graders

Madden Adair

Madelyn Gehman

Samuel Kieffer

Daphne Oatman

Reagan Orwig

Redeat Walde

Amariah Sanger

Way to go! Keep learning and creating everyone!

Learners engineered and built the largest paper airplane.

Trenten used 25 pieces of paper taped together!

He admitted that because it was so heavy that it didn’t fly very far.

Jackson Tracy (8th grade) and Evan Kensey (7th grade) both have gone above and beyond putting in lots of hours of movement and intentional training for their respective areas they have goals for. Well done gents!

Sixth grader Emily Smith completed the Fitness Minute to Win It Challenge this week with her sister, Courtney! The two competed with each other through the physical activities and it turns out Emily beat her older sister! Way to stay active while having fun Emily!