News from room 207

Here are a few pics of Mrs. Meier's 5th graders working ever so hard on their Benjamin Franklin projects! The students were fascinated to learn all about Franklin and his marvelous inventions. They were also surprised to learn how much he still impacts us even today!! The finished projects will soon be displayed on the 2nd floor!

Coming This Week: May 6th through May 11th

Coming Up This Week: 5/6

S.W.E.B.S. Focus is Rule #4   I will solve my problems peacefully!

Happy National Teacher's Week!

• Sunday, May 6th-  Students Run Philly Style.



• Several of our students have been  been training hard to prepare for the Broad Street Run.  This run is 10 miles down Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia.
  
  These students are all apart of Students Run Philly Style, which is moderated by Ms. J.  Students run after school to build their endurance, strength and mental stamina. 
  
  Ms. J, Isaiah, Nick and Evan will be running this race for the 2nd time.  Jalen will be completing this run for the first time.  Pictures to follow!
• Tuesday, May 8th
• National Teacher Appreciation Day
• Wednesday, May 9th
• Home and School Meeting at 3:15pm
• Thursday, May 10th

• This year's All-Philadelphia Middle School Music Festival will be held on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:00 PM in the theater of the Girard Academic Music Program (GAMP).  One of our sixth grade students, will be participating! We wish him all the best!  Break a leg, Chris!
• The program will feature the All-City Middle School String Orchestra under the direction of Tracy Parente and Marjorie Keefe; the All-City Middle School Concert Band is under the direction of Michael Davino and Mac Holcomb.  A highlight of program will be the full orchestra of 200 student musicians performing Rossini's  "The William Tell Overture" conducted by Jason Ikeem Rodgers.
• The concert is free and open to the public. For additional information, please contact Virginia Lam  at 215-400-5902/vlam@philasd.org.
   
• Friday, May 11th:  Fun Friday
• 20 Tickets to attend, an additional 10 to dress down

The Countdown to High School Musical Begins

The beginning of May brings many exciting events to Dobson, the Spring Book Fair, a performance from the Walnut Street Theater Community Outreach program,  a fantastic lower school trip to the aquarium, and much more.  The beginning of May also brings about our countdown to our High School Musical performance.  Tickets are now on sale, as our our fantastic T-Shirts (facilitated by the JDS Home and School).  Get your ticket orders into Ms. Tierney ASAP.  Reserved seats are selling fast.  You don't want to miss out on what promises to be another wonderful experience on the Dobson stage.

Reserved Tickets are $8 each (sales have been extended until Monday, May 7th.  General Admission tickets are $5 each.  See Ms. Tierney or email her at ltierney@philasd.org with any questions.

22 Days until HSM Jr. Hits the stage (May 23rd at 6:30pm)

March of Dimes

 
Students in Ms. Packer's class have been working hard to prepare for our March of Dimes Fundraiser.  Their plan is to ask students to donate $2 on Thursday, April 26th.  All students who donate will get to participate in a blue jean dress down day on that same day.  Alex T. designed all of their informational posters that have been hung around the school! Way to go 104!! We know that your fundraiser will be a huge success!

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

This year, a select group of our students have been working with local advertising executives, learning about many of the careers offered in this field, as well as what goes into an major advertising campaign.  These advertising executives have been visiting Dobson School once a month for one 45 minute period discuss what they do everyday at their respective companies, from creating commercial scripts, advertisement layouts, slogans, timing and much more.  Students used this information and worked with the team from Philly Ad Group to design a potential poster and ticket for our production of High School Musical Jr..

Today, these students got to see how advertising works in the real world by visiting Citizen's Bank Park.  Students met with some of the Philllies Marketing Team, had a tour of the stadium, locker room and ate lunch in Ashburn Alley.  Students got to see the many places where a company could advertise, from the scoreboard to the rally towels, to even the schedule magnets.

Phillies Media Room

Jackie Robinson's Retired Jersey

Mike Schmidt's Retired Jersey

Richie Ashburn's Retired Jersey

Ryan Howard's Locker

Julia and Destiny with Chase Utley's Bat

Alieu with Jimmy Rollins' Bat

Chris with Carlos Ruiz's Bat

Imani with Ryan Howard's Bat

In the Phillies Dugout

Dreamin' Big!!

8th Graders On the Field!

Philly Ad Students On The Field!

Screaming Students!

Students in rooms 104 and 106 created self-portraits inspired by the Edvard Munch painting "The Scream".  Each student used the paint bucket and brush tools in Photoshop to paint the scenery in the background, and then they cut and pasted a photo of themselves that they took in Photobooth.  To make their photograph look more like a painting, each student applied a watercolor filter to the photo layer.   Exceptional work, rooms 104 and 106!

                                           

                                           

                                                     

         

We Have A Winner!

Congratulations Room 207!!!