PHS Specialists want to share with you our vision of collaborating and working together as a school to support and nurture all our students to be successful in the classroom.

PHS Specialist Newsletter February 2016

From left to right: Mr. Wilkins, Mrs. Bowling, Mrs. Ritz, Mrs. Munoz, Mrs. Minor, and Mr. Smith

MUSICThe music room at PHS continues to be a busy and happening place. All students spent time celebrating famous African American Musicians and Composers during February. 4/5 students are playing away on recorders while our 4/5 chorus prepares for an Evening with the Arts, Thursday, April 21st.  Be sure to save the date! More details coming soon.

Mr. Smith

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PHYSICAL EDUCATIONIn PE classes we’ve been learning the value of keeping our bodies in good physical condition as we

focus on indoor and outdoor sports skills. We continue to learn about the importance of using teamwork in anything we do! All students participated in a unit that focused on basketball shooting, dribbling and passing skills, just in time for the start of many of our area youth basketball leagues. We also had a great time learning how to correctly throw and catch footballs and the older grade levels even got to safely run some play routes like they were in a real game! Looking forward to the winter/spring quarter, we will be focusing on hockey, volleyball and lacrosse skills to name a few. We’ll also be participating in Jump Rope for Heart again this year to help bring awareness to the importance of heart healthy activities!

**Please check out our PHS PE webpage at https://sites.google.com/a/chatham.k12.nc.us/phspe/

LIBRARY MEDIA CENTERThis quarter in the Media Center will be all about research!  Kindergarten and First Graders have already started their projects based on their favorite subjects.  Other grades are going to work on projects based on renewable energy. Third - Fifth Graders are still working hard on Elementary Battle of the Books.  We will soon see which classrooms become grade level champions.  For more information, please visit the Media Center Web Page under the Learning Resources Tab.

ARTstudents from K- 5th grade work on sculpture and collage. K students are reading about and looking at different ways to show emotions in their artwork as we create puppets and collages. First and 2nd grade students are working with still life images both 2-D and 3-D. Third –5th are working in plaster, air dry and kiln-fired clays learning a variety of sculpture techniques. Congratulations to the entire 3rd grade for the installation of the 3-D mural in the PHS Media Center. Stop by and check out the bright blue fish colored columns that the students created as a collaborative project. Please check my Art Web site for specific curriculum news and exhibit announcements. Mrs. Ritz https://sites.google.com/a/chatham.k12.nc.us/dritz/home

GUIDANCE Grades K-2 will continue to focus on critical thinking skills using Kelso's Choices for problem-solving.  Working in small groups, students will practice skills like using "I-Messages" and strategies for waiting and cooling off.  Grades 3-5 will also focus on critical thinking skills and mindset behaviors. Beginning in March, all students will begin to talk about careers.

Ms. Munoz