Floyd County Schools activity schedule for the week of May 20

 

 

                                                

 

Monday, May 20:

·  Armuchee High: (all day) - The boys golf team will compete in the state competition in Vidalia, Ga.
(7:00 p.m.) - Band Banquet - Dinner will be served in the school lunchroom and then end-of-the-year awards will be presented in the school auditorium.
(7:00 p.m.) - Touchdown Club meeting in the field house

·  Armuchee Middle: (8:05 a.m.) - TSA Photography / Graphic Study Group Documentaries

·  Coosa High: (7:00 p.m.) - Band Spring Concert in the auditorium

·  Glenwood Primary: (6:00 - 7:00 p.m.) - 2nd grade Song Flute Recital

·  Model High: (7:00 p.m.) - Senior Baccalaureate Service in the school auditorium

·  Pepperell Elementary: (1:00 p.m.) - Teacher of the Year & Yearbook Assembly

(10:00 a.m.) 11-Alive will visit the school to honor a child at PES in the 11-
Alive Acts of Kindness program. 

·  Pepperell High: (6:30 - 7:30 p.m.) - Spring Athletic Banquet in the school auditorium

·  Pepperell Middle: (9:45 - 3:00 p.m.) - 7th grade Social Studies Peeps Museum Walk-through presentations

Tuesday, May 21:

·  Floyd County Charter Schools: Last day for Pre-K students

·  Coosa High: (7:00 p.m.) - "Drama, Drama, Drama!" - The drama classes will perform original works by the students. Admission Fee is $3.00.

·  Glenwood Primary: (9:30 a.m.) - Pre-K Graduation Celebration at Pleasant Valley North Baptist Church

·  Model Elementary: (8:30 a.m.) - Pre-K Graduation Ceremony in the cafeteria

·  Model Middle: (11:00 - 3:00 p.m.) - 8th grade Cook-out

·  Pepperell Elementary: (11:00 a.m.) - Perfect Attendance Luncheon - Students with perfect attendance for the 4th nine weeks will be invited to a special lunch in their honor and extra recess.
(1:00 p.m.) - Talent Show - 5th grade students perform their talents

Wednesday, May 22:

·  Armuchee Elementary: (8:30 - 11:30 a.m.) - Field Day

·  Armuchee Middle: (all day) - PRIDE Field Day - The students and staff will participate in many different activities on campus. Events include: Yearbook Signing; Teacher-of-the-Year Announcement Ceremony.

·  Cave Spring Elementary: (8:30 a.m) - Students' Awards Day Ceremonies - The Kindergarten, first and second grades will begin at 8:30 a.m.; and third, fourth and fifth grade at 10:00 a.m.  The 5th grade will have a luncheon following the ceremony.

·  Coosa High: (9:00 a.m.) - Senior Picnic after graduation practice

·  Glenwood Primary: (2:00 p.m.) - Senior Reception for high school students that attended Glenwood during their primary school years.

·  Midway Primary: (all day) - Field Day for students

·  Model Elementary: (1:30 p.m.) - School Talent Show - The show will be held at Model High School auditorium.

·  Pepperell High: (12:00 p.m.) - Senior Picnic at the Gilbreath Center
(6:30 p.m.) - Senior Baccalaureate Service in the school auditorium

Thursday, May 23:

·  Armuchee Elementary: (9:00 & 10:30) - 3rd & 4th grade Honor Day Programs - The 3rd grade will begin 9:00 a.m. and the 4th grade program at10:30 a.m. at Northside Church.

·  Armuchee High: (11:30 -1:00 p.m.) - Senior Picnic at New Armuchee Baptist Church

·  Model Elementary: (8:00 - 8:30 a.m.) - 5th Grade Breakfast in their classrooms
(8:45 a.m.) - 5th Grade Awards Program in the gymnasium

·  Model High: (8:00 - 11:00 a.m.) - Graduation Practice at The Forum

·  Pepperell Elementary: (10:00 a.m.) - Student Field Day

·  Pepperell High: (1:00 p.m.) - Graduation Practice at The Forum

·  Pepperell Middle: (11:00 a.m.) - 8th Grade Picnic

Friday, May 24:

·  Floyd County Charter System: Last Day of School for all students

·  Armuchee Elementary: (9:00 a.m.) - 5th Grade Honor Day Program - The program will take place at Northside Church.

·  Armuchee High: (8:00 a.m.) - Senior Breakfast in the school cafeteria
(1:00 - 3:00 p.m.) - Graduation Rehearsal at The Forum
(7:00 p.m.) - Blue/White Football Game - Admission is $5.00.

·  Coosa High: (9:00 a.m.) - Graduation Practice
(7:00 p.m.) - High School Graduation at The Forum

·  Garden Lakes Elementary: (8:30 a.m.) - 5th grade Awards Day Ceremony in the school gymnasium.

·  Model Elementary: (8:150 a.m.) - 4th Grade Awards program in the gymnasium
(9:15 a.m.) - 3rd Grade Awards Program in the gymnasium
(10:15 a.m.) - Kindergarten Awards Program in the gymnasium
(11:00 a.m.) - 1st Grade Awards Program in the students' classroom
(11:00 a.m.) - 2nd Grade Picnic & Awards Program outside in the Pavilion

·  Pepperell Elementary: (9:00 a.m.) - 5th grade Honors Day

Saturday, May 25:

·  Armuchee High: (10:00 am) - Graduation at The Forum

·  Pepperell High: (2:30 p.m.) - Graduation at The Forum

·  Model High: (7:00 p.m.) - Graduation at The Forum  

 

 

 

TDS ANNOUNCES ANNUAL GEORGIA AWARD WINNERS

Pepperell High School, Lakota Withrow, Halle Hanks, Hope Boyd and Alana Ellenburg will be recognized by Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) for their efforts to prevent teen driver crashes through the TDS program. The program recently announced its annual awards honoring schools, student leaders and sponsors for their efforts to prevent teen driver crashes through the TDS program.

• Pepperell High School, Lindale, GA, TDS Cup, $1,000
• Lakota Withrow, Murray County High School, Chatsworth, GA, recognized for service on the 2012-2013 TDS Teen Advisory Board
• Halle Hanks, Pepperell High School, Lindale, GA, appointed to the 2013-2014 TDS Teen Advisory Board
• Hope Boyd, Rome High School, Rome, GA, appointed to the 2013-2014 TDS Teen Advisory Board
• Alana Ellenburg, Pepperell High School, Lindale, GA, 2013 SponStar award recipient

The TDS Cup is the award given to the top TDS Program schools each year. Schools receive points for completing various project outreach activities and achieving program goals. At the end of each year, the school with the most points in each size category is declared the winner and receives the TDS Cup.

The Teen Advisory Board (TAB) consists of students who are selected to be representatives for the TDS Program, offering guidance and leadership relative to the content and direction of the program. Some duties of TAB members include providing insight on how to engage their peers and sustain their interest in TDS, assisting in organizing program-oriented events and activities, providing feedback, ideas and opinions on new program materials, safety messages, promotional items and related elements, participating in quarterly meetings and serving as traffic safety ambassadors and leaders for the program.

The SponStar award recognizes teachers/sponsors that give extraordinary amounts of their limited and valuable time to provide leadership and guidance to TDS student teams, thereby significantly enhancing the experience of those teens and the impact of the TDS program.

Started in 2002, Teens in the Driver Seat is a peer-to-peer safety program that educates teens about the top five dangers of teen driving – driving at night; speeding and street racing; distractions, such as cell phones and teen passengers; not wearing a seat belt; and alcohol/drug use. Thanks to funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation and State Farm, program resources and technical support are available at no cost to schools in Georgia. For more information, please visit http://t-driver.com.

 

 

 

Floyd County Schools and Berry to offer gifted summer program

Media release: Summer break from school is near and many parents will be looking for opportunities for enrichment camps for their children.  Floyd County Schools and Berry College have teamed-up to provide a gifted summer camp for children in the Northwest Georgia area.  Viking Explorations will be held on the campus of Berry College and is a summer program for gifted and talented students in grades three through five.  The program will be held July 15-19, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Viking Explorations will be taught by full-time college faculty, teachers from Berry College Elementary and Middle School, and gifted program teachers from Floyd County Schools.  Children will have the opportunity to select two classes from the variety of options offered by the program.  The first class will be from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  The second class will begin at 10:30 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m.  "As we looked at what was offered for our gifted children over the summer, we saw a void of programs here in our area," stated McCall Govignon, director of advanced academic programs for Floyd County Schools. "I approached Berry College about hosting a program and their excitement about the opportunity quickly developed into Viking Explorations."  Govingnon added, "We are thrilled about the summer academic exploration this program will offer for our gifted program students in Floyd County Schools." 

Tuition for Viking Explorations is $125.00.  Supplies and equipment needed during the camp are included in the price along with snacks.  Parents may register their children online at: http://www.berry.edu/vikingexplorations.  Children must be in the gifted academic program in their local school to register for the program.

Classes offered during this summer's Viking Explorations include:

BOLD Outdoor Leadership:  The Berry College Outdoor Leadership course will require the imagination and cooperation of every participant as we build communication skills and team confidence on low ropes course elements.   

Chess Masters:  Taking players from piece pushers to strategic thinkers in one of the world's oldest games is the goal. Players will learn opening strategy, defense tactics, common checkmates and how to anticipate when their opponent will play next. 

Creative Writing:  Children will explore creative writing techniques, including narrative, memoir and poetry.   By analyzing examples from famous authors, they will create different strategies for engaging hooks and creating different moods in writings.

Hiking through History:  Children will be guided through rich experiences in history by looking through a lens to the past, exploring documents firsthand in the Berry College Library Archives, the Martha Berry Digital Archives and various historical sites on the Berry campus.  

Summer at the Improv!:  Children will learn the basic rules of improv, including state presence..  Most importantly, students will gain self-confidence, learn to celebrate the quirks that make us all unique and fabulous, build team-work skills, practice critical thinking and have a blast playing a wide variety of improv games.

Think, Create, Invent:  This hands-on course will help children become future inventors with a goal of creating and designing new and better ways of doing things.  We will learn about famous inventors of the past and present, mistakes that worked and wacky inventions.

Math Building!: Children will focus on using mathematics to build objects. Through hands-on math activities exciting topics will be explored such as puzzles, fractals and bridges. These engaging challenges will encourage the use of geometry, measurement and number pattern knowledge.

Odyssey of the Mind: Students develop their creative, original and diverse thinking.  Students will be placed on teams that will foster teamwork, cooperation and appreciation of others while developing self-respect and respect for others through brainstorming and role playing. 

Introduction into VEX Robotics:  Children will use the VEX Robotics design system to build a robot to compete in fun, real world challenges like robo-soccer, obstacle courses, sack attack, tag, maze solving and much more.  The Vex Robotics design system is the same system used in major regional and national robotics competitions as well as in many middle school, high school and university level robotics classes.

Story Telling and Retelling:  Children will learn about the history, principles and techniques for collecting, organizing and sharing stories.  They will listen to stories from master storytellers and then prepare our own story to tell to the group on the final day of class.

"Un Poco de Todo en Espanol" "A Bit of Everything in Spanish": The Spanish language will be used to introduce children to the days of the week, the months of the year, numbers, colors, weather, body parts, articles of clothing, foods, animals, family vocabulary, modes of transportation, special places, geography, common phrases and cultural aspects.  Activities will include songs, games, skits and a lot of fun. 

For more information about Viking Explorations, contact McCall Govignon at 706-234-1031 or email at mgovignon@floydboe.net.  More information is also available on the Berry College website at http://www.berry.edu/vikingexplorations.

    

Two East Rome sites sprucing up. Graves, Gingrey on tense Washington vote. River Jam, graduations dominate weekend agenda. Latest Public Health dining scores. $740 million Lottery weekend.

For these and the weekend's latest stories, please see www.hometownheadlines.com:   East Rome updates -Rome Village gets a redo in front of Walmart. -Work begins at idled Huddle House off U.S. 411.   Vacation Bible Schools add F/X to spread The Word -The message is the same but the format is different. -Join our list of VBS options in the region.   Washington Buzz -Tense words, tense times for local lawmakers. -Gingrey, Graves vote to repeal Obamacare.   Weekend Buzz -Northwest Georgia's premiere concert, Rome River Jam, to fill Ridge Ferry Park -- and beyond -- on Saturday. -Also: Rome High, Darlington graduations on Saturday; weekend home stand for the Rome Braves;  several ways to help locals in need.      Low 80s, some rain in the weekend forecast -Outlook: About an inch of rain is possible today through early Sunday. -Friday: 30% rain chance, high of 83, low of 63. -Saturday: 70% rain chance, high of 81, low of 63. -Sunday: 50% rain chance, high of 84, low of 66. Thursday Public Health restaurant inspection scores: Floyd, Bartow. Dining $740 million up for grabs tonight, Saturday:  -$190 million MegaMillion drawing tonight; $550 million PowerBall on Saturday night. Lottery   Today's latest jail reports.   Hometown Headlines Radio Edition 7-9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live online -Please join our guests Friday including: -Bud Owens, director of Floyd Medical Center's emergency medical services. -Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable as Kevin Karel and Andrew Carter (and maybe Nelle Reagan) join us to discuss the week's top local headlines and what they mean to you.

Hometown Sports -Rome snaps losing streak, pounds Asheville 11-4. -Braves home tonight at 7 vs. Asheville. -See Mills Fitzner's latest home game photos

Rome Symphony plans June 8 pops concert, July Fourth performance

From the RSO's "Notes of interest."

 

June 8, 2013 CONCERT:

 

Gather your friends, your picnic dinner and your chairs and come to the concert !

 

Dr. Sam Baltzer and the Clock Tower Jazz Ensemble will perform on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. for the final concert of the Rome Symphony Orchestra's 2012-2013 subscription series. 

 

Enjoy the cool comfort of the Huffman Center at Darlington school for this traditional concert of the summer.  If you don't want to bring your own table and chairs, you can rent them for the evening.  We will have your table set up with chairs, tablecloth and votive candles to await your arrival.  Bring table decorations as there will be a "Best Dressed Table" award. 

 

Doors open at 6:00 for the 7:00 concert. 

 

Advance purchase of tickets on line or at retail outlets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $2 for students. Tickets at the door are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $5 for students.  For on-line ticket purchases or information on where to buy tickets at our retail outlets visit the RSO website at www.romesymphony.org   Table rentals may be made by calling the Symphony office at 706-291-7967.

 

 

You can also purchase advance tickets at Kroger, World Hi-Fi (Rome Recliners and More), The Visitor Center, Merry Bee Gallery, Living & Giving, Riverside Gourmet, and Bussey's in Cedartown.  These tickets are available now.

 

Join us at the Huffman Center, Darlington Campus, 1815 Cave Spring Road for the 7:00 p.m. concert.  Doors will open at 6:00 p.m.

 

4^th of JULY CONCERT with the RSO

 

Harbin Clinic's 2^nd Annual Community 4^th of July Celebration at Ridge Ferry Park will feature an evening of traditional patriotic music ending in fireworks.  The event is presented in partnership with the Rome Floyd Parks & Recreation Department.  Music will be provided by the Rome Symphony Orchestra.  Gates will open at 6 p.m. The  Presentation of Flags and Colors will be at 8:00 p.m. followed by the Rome Symphony's full symphonic pops concert.  Fireworks are expected to begin around 9:30 p.m.