Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, January 25, 1994 TAG: 9401250266
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Melissa DeVaughn
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
In Richmond, groups of teachers, including two from Montgomery County, will gather to share their teaching ideas and display their students' art work.
In Montgomery County, students will celebrate by answering questions on famous art and artists, being rewarded with prizes.
In Radford, art teacher Carolyn Wojtera and her young artists will study famous ``Cats in Art,'' including the work of Marc Chagall, Paul Gauguin and Pierre Auguste Renior's well-known ``Woman with a Cat'' painting.
Linda Waggaman, instructional supervisor of programs for gifted and fine arts, said Art Advocacy Day shows the importance of the fine arts in education.
``Art is not just an add-on subject; the fine arts are truly an important part of one's education,'' Waggaman said. ``It is being incorporated into what teachers are doing in other classes - we're seeing a connection in the classes.''
Roselynn Hopkins, art teacher for Harding Avenue and Prices Fork elementary schools, said Art Advocacy day is another example of how Virginia is progressing in promoting the arts.
``In spite of all the bad things we hear - budget cuts, understaffing and other problems - the state level is looking encouraging,'' Hopkins said. ``And locally, we've had good support; it's been very good.''
Artwork by area art students often is on display at the Montgomery County School Board office on Junkin Street, or at the New River Valley Mall. For further information, call Waggaman at 382-5100.
Christiansburg Middle School principal Bill Fletcher will hold a PRINCIPAL'S CHAT in the school library Wednesday from 9 to10:30 a.m. Parents or community members who have questions may come and talk with Fletcher in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
Also, the school PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION will meet tonight at 7 in the school cafeteria. Glenn Holmes of Virginia Tech will speak on the Focus 2006 project in Montgomery County Schools, followed by minisessions on scheduling for next year, the literacy passport tests, the gifted and talented program, and special education inclusion.
For further information, call 382-5168.
Do you want to know how Montgomery County schools will spend it's proposed $46 million budget? Then, come to the MONTGOMERY COUNCIL OF PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Christiansburg High School. Montgomery County school administrators will present the school budget and answer any questions.
SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST preparation class will be offered by New River Community College beginning Saturday and continuing for five weeks. The class is designed to help explain and review test topics with special emphasis on math and verbal exercises. The cost is $60 plus the cost of the textbook. For further information, call 674-3607.
The Kaplan Center of Blacksburg also offers SAT PREPARATION COURSES beginning Saturday. The courses will prepare students for the March 19 SAT, and classes will be held at the Blacksburg Marriott at convenient times for students.
Preregistration is required. For further information, call 552-TEST (8378).
Earlier this month, a workshop on ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER was held at Prices Fork Elementary School. Dr. David Hamilton, clinical psychologist with St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital said ADHD affects a child's ability to begin or maintain a task and to make reflective decisions. Children diagnosed with ADHD are inattentive and impulsive in class, a condition which negatively affects the child's classroom performance.
Parents and teachers of children with ADHD will meet in a support group Wednesday night at 7 at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School. Bring your children for ADHD activities with Radford University graduate students.
For further information, call Marcia Slattery at 951-2206.
Gilbert Linkous and Prices Fork elementary schools have announced the winners of the 1993-94 REFLECTIONS CONTESTo sponsored by area Parent-Teacher Associations. The theme this year is ``If I Could Give the World a Gift.'' The winners are:
Gilbert Linkous: Visual Arts: Natasha Karamaoun, grade 3, first place; Katie Spillane, grade 2, second place; Cynthia Karamaoun, grade 2, third place; Navid Rojiani, grade1, honorable mention; Catie Cummings, grade 2, honorable mention; Ryan Johnson, grade 2, honorable mention; and Elsa Karamaoun, kindergarten, honorable mention.
Visual Arts: Belen Irarrazaval, grade 4, first place; Sandra Karamaoun, grade 5, second place; Lore Deighan, grade 5, third place; Mandy McKee, grade 5, honorable mention; Peter Gwazdauskas, grade 5, honorable mention; and Rebecca Merola, grade 4, honorable mention.
Literature: Nick Ravlin, grade 3, first place; Amber Hendricks, grade 3, second place; Sarah Hackett, grade 3, third place; Christopher Sellers, grade 3, honorable mention; Rennie Waldron, grade 3, honorable mention; Anthony Diplas, grade 3, honorable mention.
Literature: Daniel Lewis, grade 5, first place; Jonathan Hopkins, grade 5, second place; Lizzie Oderwald, grade 5, third place; Jill Fox, grade 5, honorable mention; Nikki Dooley, grade 4, honorable mention; Nicole Fougere, grade 5, honorable mention.
Prices Fork: Visual Arts kindergarten through third grade: Helen DeHart, first place; Judith Moore, second place; Roderick DeHart, third place; and Jordan Oliver-Poche, honorable mention.
Visual Arts fourth and fifth grades: Noelle Perdue, first place; Bethany Kemp, second place; Hannah Wakley, third place; and Julie Rhinesmith, honorable mention.
Literature kindergarten through third grade: Judith Moore, first place; Brian Glosh, second place; Adam Fillmore, third place; Tabatha Waugh, honorable mention; Michael Pauley, honorable mention; and Roderick DeHart, honorable mention.
Literature fourth and fifth grades: Amy Sims, first place; David Rose, second place; Erica Fillmore, third place; Elizabeth Moses, honorable mention; Caroline Seagle, honorable mention; and Jennifer Rose, honorable mention.
Music: Roderick DeHart, first place, kindergarten through third-grade level; Kourtney Coker, first place, fourth and fifth grade level.
Photography: Charlie Chalmers won first and second place for the fourth- and fifth-grade level.
``Finally,'' say Prices Fork Elementary School personnel, a fourth office secretary has been hired to help out at the school. VALERIE MURRAY is the new office secretary. She, her husband, David, and their two children, Christopher and Ashley, live in Blacksburg.
SHAWSVILLE HIGH AND MIDDLE SCHOOLo students have been busy this month. Here's what's going on there:
Seventh-graders are pen pals with United States Army soldiers stationed in Somalia and have been learning all about their duties overseas.
The following seventh-graders were nominated for the United States Mathematics Award for their outstanding work in math: Patrick Angle, Tommy Cerva, Josh Bandy, Megan Collins, Jeremy Clark, Curtis Craighead, Joy Dalton, Ronnie Fendlay, Megan Forester, Erin Hall and Julene Hyatt.
Other nominees are: Simon Jones, Jaimi Kell, Mike Lowe, Sarah Moore, Patrick Mullins, April Ratcliff, Linden Ryan, Christina St.Clair, Erin Wilke, Amanda Willis and Cindy Yopp.
Almost 90 sixth-graders earned a trip to Ramshead Bookstore, Mill Mountain Zoo and Tanglewood Mall by reading more than 50,000 pages in textbooks and novels since school began last year. The event was paid for by a Montgomery County grant that was used to encourage reading.
Marcia Murphy, a seventh-grade reading and English teacher, will be featured in the February-March edition of a teachers magazine called ``The Intermediate Mailbox.'' Murphy designed a creative writing center by placing unrelated items in empty coffee cans and assigning students to write about those items in any way they can imagine.
Melissa DeVaughn is a Roanoke Times & World-News editorial assistant.
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