Impressions from the art room

We recently started our new semester which means we will no longer be having Scientific Communication with Mr. Comstock (We will miss you!) and are looking forward to learning about and making art with Mrs. Norton.

So far, we have been learning about Mrs. Norton’s classroom rules, which are pretty strict.  We’ve also made folders for our work and we started drawing on manila paper.

Mrs. Norton has an assistant, Ms. Erickson, who will also be working with us. Mrs. Norton does not go by block, she goes by group. For example my group is called Graphite which is a gray color. We started making and painting notebook-like books with watercolors which we will be doing work in. Mrs. Norton had students some years ago name the two sinks in her room and the sinks had to have the word “sink” in it so, they named it Hellsinki which is the capital of Finland and Sink Hole which is a depression in the earth. Mrs. Norton said some sink holes get so big they swallow houses!

By Jean-Louis

 

Denise Blaha, climate change activist, to speak to York 7

Ms. Denise Blaha, a research associate at the University of New Hampshire Institute of Earth, Ocean and Space, is coming to King Middle School to talk with students about the concept of climate change and global warming.

Ms. Blaha set a great example for students, teachers, parents, and just about everyone by “reducing the carbon emissions of her family by about 17,000 pounds annually.” Part of the way she accomplished this was by replacing all of her incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent ones and by giving some fluorescent light bulbs to her friends. By doing this one thing she made up for the carbon emissions of her car, a Toyota Matrix. To make up for the emissions of her husband’s car, Ms. Blaha gave money to a “carbon offset” which takes money from donors and uses it to “undo the effects of global warming by investing projects like reforestation and wind farms.”

Ms.Blaha is sure to be a motivating and persuasive educator when she comes to speak to students tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23rd.

Submitted By Alison

Quotations from: http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2006/dec/06carbon.html

 

The York 7 Blog Team Gets Started

We are pleased to announce that the York 7 Blog team is underway. Stay tuned for news and information about life in York 7.

Submitted by Mr. Grant

 

Welcome to the York 7 Weblog

We will be using this blog to post homework, provide weekly teacher updates, and report on news from the house.  Use the links to the right to navigate.