The future of the School District of Athens is in the hands of voters. Casting your informed vote is important! Are you voting absentee? Timing is everything. Visit myvote.wi.gov to register, request a ballot, or find polling places.
March 4th
Lila Giese
Lila is a 5th grader who just LOVES to create art! She always comes in my room with enthusiasm and joy and focuses so well on her work. Here is featured her Op Art (art created to make an optical illusion) where she made the appearance of a ball pushing through the wall. Students were given many choices for creating Op Art and had to do much of their own problem solving skills to figure out how to make it. They also needed to include value (changes from light to dark) in their work. Lila did an exceptional job while still finishing early enough to make a secondary background. Great job, Lila!
March 3-
Angelica Aragon Vargas
Angelica has always been ahead of the curve in her art. This fourth grader has such attention to detail and does such fine, careful work. Here, in the ornament done with scratch art paper, she shows such attention to detail, being sure the highlights, midtones, and shadows were carefully rendered using appropriate directional lines to create the form. In her Analogous complementary portrait, she not only understood the analogous colors (close on the color wheel) and complementary colors (across from each other on the color wheel), but the detailed work with varied lines and careful edges made her work really stand out from the crowd! I am excited to see where her art skills and creativity take her!
Glow Day fun!
NHS students, Jennifer Espinoza & Jazelle Hartwig, read books to the fifth grade during Read Across America week!
March is Youth Art Month! I will be featuring an artist a day. There will be Elementary, Middle, and High School art students showcased this month. These students put forth great effort and display grit in their artmaking. They challenge themselves and are better for it. I'm excited to show you some of what they have accomplished!
Youth Art Month
March 2- Helen Kingsbury
Helen is a senior art student who has become an avid art advocate in the classroom and in 2D Studio, which she is currently enrolled. The work here shows great attention to detail, as well as creativity, taking a route that most other students did not opt to explore- the world being that of fantasy. Beautiful work, Helen!
Why is Your Informed Vote Critically Important?
A voter-approved operational referendum seeks to rebuild financial stability for our district. Learn more on the athens1.org website & attend a community information meeting March 8 at the Town of Johnson or March 13 at Maple Grove Charter School. Meetings start at 6 PM.
March 1st:
Hunter Hawley
Hunter is in 2D Studio and created this inner self-portrait displaying depth of color as well as depth of meaning. Within his silhouette, he created a full body silhouette and a cityscape background, in which the warm colors contrast the deep, cool colors that hold our attention in the foreground. Hunter is also very active in the art club, helping with a mural, jewelry making, and selling concessions whenever he can to help raise money for special trips. Beautiful work, Hunter!
Did you know? The School District of Athens has the lowest school mill rate in Marathon County, fifth lowest in CESA 9, and 20th lowest in the entire state of Wisconsin. On the April 4 general election ballot, the School District of Athens is asking voters to approve a non-recurring operational referendum question to sustain the operation of our School District. Please cast an informed vote. Watch for the community-wide postcard coming to mailboxes soon.
Voting will decide the future of the school district. Attend a community information meeting: tomorrow, March 1 at Athens High School, March 13 at Maple Grove Charter School, or March 16 at Athens Elementary School. Both meetings start at 6 PM. Check out our website for more: https://athenswi.sites.thrillshare.com/page/referendum
Unfortunately, due to inclement weather, the referendum community information meeting scheduled this evening, February 27 at Maple Grove Charter School, has been cancelled. This meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, March 13 at 6 PM, and it will be held at Maple Grove Charter School in the gymnasium.
The School District of Athens will be closed tomorrow Monday, February 27 due to inclement weather. There will be no after school activities or athletic events
Snowy mess outside so why not make messy snowmen to eat?
The preschoolers made an airplane during playtime this week to travel out of Wisconsin. Some were pretending to travel to Africa, the beach, and elsewhere in North America. I guess I really can't blame them with all of the snow we're getting this week!
On the April 4, 2023 general election ballot, the School District of Athens is asking voters to approve a non-recurring operational referendum. The future of the School District of Athens is in the hands of all resident voters. Please learn more on the District webpage or attend a community meeting: http://www.athens1.org/referendum
District residents are invited to learn more about the referendum by attending community information meetings, and "Drop in and Chat" sessions with the Superintendent. Dates and times for these meetings can be located on the school district website, athens1.org.
Unfortunately, due to inclement weather, the first "Drop in and Chat" with the School District of Athens' Superintendent scheduled for February 23 has been cancelled, and rescheduled.
You are invited to join Superintendent Andrea Sheridan on Friday, February 24 from 7-9 AM at the Athens Country Cafe to learn more about the spring 2023 school district referendum.
The School District of Athens will be closed tomorrow Thursday February 22due to inclement weather. There will be no after school activities or athletic events.
4th Graders made Expressive Portraits, learning about expression, line weight, and complementary colors.
Can you guess who the 4th grader is before you look at the name below??
The February Bedazzling Blue Jay Family Fun Night hosted fifteen families and shared how the game of Bingo can be played in many ways to enhance literacy and math skills. Two websites were shared that had free printable Bingo sheets and options to play virtually as well. Check out bingobaker.com and myfreebingocards.com. The next family night will be held on March 27, 2023.
