School Telephone:  704-639-3018 ext. 610

Email: alexandd@rss.k12.nc.us

Schoolnotes Web Page:

http://newschoolnotes. com/alexandd08

The Looking Glass Art Collective at the Railwalk Galleries, 405 Lee Street, Salisbury, N. C.

About 20 North Rowan Middle School art students  have art on exhibit.  The show began on Sunday, January 30, 2011 and will run for 6 weeks.  The Salisbury Post had a wonderful article about several North Rowan Middle Students on Monday, February 7, 2011.

Upcoming Events:

The National School Bus Safety Contest

The Rowan Salisbury Middle School Art Show at The Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury 

The Carolina Artists' Student Art Expo at The former Civic Center on Martin Luther King Blvd, Salisbury

Mrs. Fleming, Mr. Freeman,  and I  are collaborating on a unit of African-American literature, music, and visual arts.  The art classes are studying the Harlem Renaissance in New York City from 1919-1929. Our unit will focus on the art of William H. Johnson.  Students will be reading articles about the Harlem Renaissance and answering questions about what they have read.  Students are working either individually or in groups to do large paintings in homage to the style of William H. Johnson.

The 7B class has been experimenting with Chinese Brush Paintings with their names in Chinese Calligraphy.

Several of my honors students are making a film about bullying at school.

Students need to bring sharpened, #2 wooden pencils and an eraser to class every day.  They need some notebook paper in a folder to write notes and solve the Problems of the Day.

If any parents/guardians would be interested in volunteering in the art classes and/or the  Art Club for 2010-2011, please e-mail Mrs. Alexander.  It would be so great to have an  extra pair of hands and an extra pair of eyes.

Everyone, if you have art supplies, craft supplies, or old calendars, old holiday greeting cards, remnants of cloth, ribbon, trim-anything that could be used to make art, please consider donating it to the art program.

Suggested supplies for all art classes:

#2 wooden pencils

an eraser

NRMS agenda

The new Schedule for Art and other Exploratory Classes has changed so that each class has 50 minutes, and the 6th Graders have their Exploratory classes at the end of the day.  Starting soon, the 6th graders will return to their teachers at 3:08 so that everyone can watch the NRMS news and sports TV show.

7:50-8:25 Cars and Buses Arrive in the front parking lot. Buses empty into the Exploratory Hall and go to either the cafeteria for breakfast, or to the gym to wait until homeroom.

New for this year, all car riders will arrive at the old bus lot, and go through the 6th grade hall and main hall to either the cafeteria or the gym.

3:20- 3:40  Car Duty and Bus Dismissal, back lot.After 3:40, all car riders who are left report to the front of the school to be picked up.

For local art classes for Middle School and Elementary School Students contact:

Waterworks Visual Arts Center

123 East Liberty Street

Salisbury, N.C. 28144

704-636-1882

www.waterworks.org

Hours:  Monday - Friday, 10:00 am;  Thursday evenings until 7:00 pm;  Saturday, 11:00 -3:00 pm.

The art on exhibit at the Smith Outpatient Lobby of Rowan Regional Hospital will be changed out so a new group of middle school and high school students will show their work.