KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Eagle News for October

MCDOWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL celebrates Native Americans

McDowell Elementary School's fifth-grade class has been celebrating Native Americans. Here are a few of the great projects Mr. Tomassion's students have created.

RANDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL third graders opt for Clinton

Randall Elementary School third-grade pupils used electronic voting machines from Scholastic to cast their votes for president. 

This followed many weeks of learning about the democratic process, who can be president and facts about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

The final tally was 43 for Mrs. Clinton and 24 for Mr. Trump. 

RANDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Players get in the swing of things

Randall Players, the after-school enrichment program at Randall Elementary School, has begun early this year.

At the beginning, students use cooperation, teamwork and ideas to become a better drama player. 

Here students are making a house without talking using only their bodies. Designed to promote teamwork and using gestures instead of words to convey feelings. Students were also collaborating on how to make a king cobra.

West Middle School student Hannah Cox and Kennedy High School student Maddie Heidenreich are helping us out this year. This year’s performance will be in February.

RANDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL pupils receive help in technology

Mrs. Cahalan’s third grade is learning technology with Mrs. Morford at Randall Elementary School. Mrs. Morford is a Michigan State University graduate and is taking technology/computer classes at Henry Ford Community College. Everyone loves her help! Mrs. Morford comes on Monday afternoons.

RANDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL fifth-graders get hallways in the right mood

Mrs. Heidenreich's fifth-grade students at Randall Elementary School always have outstanding art hanging in the hall by their classroom.

Every holiday or event you can find something pertaining to what is going on. During the Halloween season you could find "screamers" and monsters. Mrs. Patts the librarian loved the monsters so much she is framing some for the library.

The next event of course was the election. Flags were flying high outside this fifth-grade hall. Of course, we can't forget the turkeys for Thanksgiving made on graph paper.

Great job students!

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL band visits DSO

On November 3 over 100 West Middle School band students attended the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The 50-minute performance was titled “Musical Heroes.” The concert began with the theme song to the movie “Superman.”

From Superman to Beethoven, Shostakovich and more, this program explored musical heroes, superheroes and even everyday heroes.  It was a tribute to the challenges they overcame to produce the most courageous sounds in the history of music.

The students thoroughly enjoyed this performance. It was exciting to see musicians of this caliber share their talent and passion with the audience. To be in the beauty of Orchestra Hall for this event is a memory the students will carry with them for a very, very long time.