Hi, everyone.  Time is flying as we head through May!  A couple of general announcements:

1. 8th Grade- After their big trip, they will be presenting their independent studies as well as finishing off their hand sculptures.  

2. We need old shoes! Anyone able to donate any sort of old shoe should send them in for a project coming up in a week or so.

3. We can start to look forward to the end of the year gatherings for showing off our art! The upper campus will be having Art-Poetry-Music night on Thursday, June 5th.  The lower campus art will be up for portfolio day on Friday, June 6th.  Look for invitations with details coming home with your student soon!

4. Monday Media: we have two more regular sessions to go, with a make-up day that looks like it will be our presentation day.  Look for a paper note about that next Monday.

Hi, everyone! Thanks so much for all the fun and support at the auction this weekend.  It was great to talk to parents and see all the amazing contributions to our fundraising program. I am already excited about projects we can do for next year’s auction! 

Upper campus update:  We are currently continuing to finish up last week’s projects. The 8th graders who chose to do the second independent study can bring them in this Thursday (05.09.08), but we decided to do the presentations after the D.C. trip in order to get in more time with the clay.  If students need to bring them in after the trip, that’s fine as well.

Monday Media update: This week we started recording live instruments.  We had an electric guitar, a midi-controlled synth, and an effects processor set up so that all the players and the engineer could listen through headphones while we recorded.  Look for some edits from the session to be posted next week.  This week’s Youtube share comes from a Mixlab alum, who caught the animation bug here at Archway and took it with her into high school (thanks, Merrits!).  http://www.youtube.com/v/PXTVCsNZYPg&hl=en