Friday, April 29, 2016

Metcalf Students Making Us Proud!

Do you know what RIMTA is?  It is the Rhode Island Mathematics Teachers Association and they honored one of our grade 3 students today! 
Paul Mangino won the RIMTA Student Award for Outstanding Performance in Mathematics! 
   
Here is Paul with Mrs. Kilday, Mrs. Barbour, Mrs. Prentiss from RIMTA. 

 Paul's classmates engulfed him in a HUGE celebratory embrace!!  We all enjoyed the award ceremony complete with balloons and pizza!  


We are happy to announce the winners of this year’s 4th Grade Earth Day Poster Contest! 
Mrs. Walsh from the West Greenwich Land Trust has selected 10 students from Metcalf! 
                

Wyatt Fehsenfeld, Lucas Husband, Ana Paquette, Harrison Lynch, Tiara Baccari,
Madison Aston, Michael Squeo, Angela Broccoli, Ava Bicknell
 
These students, along with Victoria Giarusso, were honored on Thursday, April 28th, at Louttit Library in West Greenwich. Winning works are currently on display at Metcalf. Also, all are welcome to view the posters of all 4th grade students who entered the contest at the Louttit Library. 
We hope you have a chance to enjoy the colorful displays! 

We are also happy to announce that EWG has been named the Rhode Island K-12 Art Department of the Year! There will be a ceremony on Thursday, May 19th at 7pm to honor our k-12 art teachers and to highlight student work. Sixth Grader Morgan Beck has had a piece of art selected to be part of the permanent gallery collection at the URI Providence Campus. In addition, artwork from students Claire Foley, Nolan Lopes, Jordan Medeiros, May Pennington, and Jenna Wilbur will be on display in the PS 2016 statewide gallery show in this same location. 
Congratulations to our fantastic student artists and staff!

We have a Nationally Recognized Writer at Metcalf!!
Sixth grade student, Madeline Green, was recently honored by our School Committee for being the Sixth Grade National Winner of the Daughter's of the American Revolution Essay Contest! 
Here is Maddie with Superintendent Erinakes and School Committee Chair, Claudine Pande.

We couldn't be more proud of all our students here at 
Metcalf Elementary School!


Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Creative Arts Night!

Creative Arts Night 
was a HUGE success!

Just look at the fun we had celebrating all the 
creative students we have here at Metcalf!

              
                        A back stage look at our band performers!                 Deep in discussion about 
                                  They sounded terrific!!!                                        the artistic talents 
                                                                                                              evident tonight!

                  
              Congratulations to the winners of our            Congratulations to the winners of our
            Favorite Meal essay contest!  Enjoy your              edible or recycled art contest!
                   dinner at Nick's on Broadway!                      Incredible imaginations at work!

                               
                         Just look at these fabulous edible or recycled art projects...WOW!!

Don't forget about the upcoming 
Sweetheart Dance for all children K-6.  
You can find the Sweetheart Dance flyer on the 
Metcalf website under the "Notices" tab.  
Please send the form in by Friday, April 15th.  Thank you!  :)