Bingo for Books at MVE: The Mountain View Learning Center held its 2nd and 3rd grade "Bingo for Books" Wednesday night in the Mountain View cafeteria. Teachers Jane Lehnis and Wendy Lippmann organized a fun night for families. Each child in attendance went home with several new books. Smiles permeated the event as shouts of "BINGO" rang out (with Principal Randy Weeks as the caller). Komachin 8th grader Samantha Farler did an excellent job as emcee. If you missed this event, keep your ears open for the next one, it is a ton of fun!
Visual & Performing Arts
Schools celebrate the Arts: Meadows and Mountain View Elementary schools celebrated the arts on Monday with their respective school communities. At Meadows, families were invited to different rooms in the school to participate and observe a variety of activities from quilt blocking and salmon cycle art and poetry in classrooms, to hip hop dance in the gym and a "fake cake" art display with live saxophone music in the library. Wonderful staff-created art was also featured, including a detailed fish carving and bonsai tree by Edward Kim. Students were also preparing their costumes for the annual Species parade, including tie-dyed shirts and mustang heads. Organizers of the event included: Cynthia Kelly, Betsy Perkins, Laura Van Etten, Matt Tuttle.Likewise at Mountain View, sixth grade teacher Scott Nye led a standing room only,collaborative effort to showcase the fine arts in the school library, including music, art, poetry, and storytelling. Performance groups included: Mountain View Marimba Ensemble, Wesley Basulto, DJ McFadden, Mountain View String Quintet, Griffen Gibson, Samantha Eagle, Deja Williams, Mr. Lippman, Isiaha Lapassa, Daniel Soto, Aaron Stone, Victor Ortega, Emily Haapala, Alex Haimes, and Brandy Do. Suzanne Cofer, Vickie Hanson, Sheila Whybrow and Jennifer Lyne, Orchestra also helped organize the successful evening that was topped off with refreshments donated by Starbucks and a viewing of the art displays.
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