Be Ready For the Give-a-Thon Today!

The call center is quiet now with only Bobby James setting up, but TONIGHT it will be CRAZY!

If you get a call today from 4-7 pm ANSWER IT! Please! The 8th graders will be counting on you! Nearly the whole eighth grade class has signed up to help Annual Giving make hundreds of calls to our families to request and accept donations. Students with the greatest number of donors pledged will be up for prizes! This is a great chance to take a couple of minutes and get your donation completed for the drive. Yes. You can still donate later online and by check but why not just get it done now? Note that if you get a call from an area code of 706 its US! Answer it!

Hope to talk to you all soon!

Annual Giving Committee Champions!

L to R: Bobby James, Monique James, Wendi Whittiker, Nicole Hawkins, Eunie Piper (committee Chair), Mike Stout, Jacki Stout, Stacy conologue, Karl Vizmeg- not pictured: Alicia Riddle, Kelly Jensen

This week is the BIG push for the Channing Hall annual giving drive. The phone-a-thon is this Thursday! But before we get into YOU! YOU! YOU! GIVE! GIVE! GIVE! we need to put out a big thanks for the dedicated volunteers who are on the Annual Giving Committee. These are parents that have been working year round, over the last several years, planning how to get YOU to support YOUR kids through donations. It is a fun group that works well together always stepping up to help in any way they can. THANK YOU Annual Giving Committee!

Now back to you: GIVE! PLEASE?! :)

Annual Giving BeatleMania Concert

 Channing Hall Music and the Annual Giving committee teamed up to bring us a rocking Beatles inspired concert tonight. The 8th Grade Choir, the Middle School Band and the Junior Choir performed a colorful assortment of Beatles tunes under the direction of Jennifer Taylor.

 Special guests, Peter Breinholt and Nancy Hanson, joined in later for a couple more jamming renditions. I am certain this wonderful duo left the Channing Hall student musicians inspired.

Then the whole ensemble joined in for a fun sing-a-long of "All You Need is Love".

Mike Stout from the Annual Giving Committee closed the evening off with a brief but poignant message for us all to give what we can to support Channing Hall and our kids.

Keep tuned in for news about the upcoming Phone-a-thon drive March 15th!

2012 ANNUAL GIVING KICKOFF!

You don't have to be Einstein to know that Channing Hall's Annual Giving is indispensable

This week we kick off our annual fundraising campaign for Channing Hall. I think we can all think of many reasons that fundraising for our children's school is important. Things such as- more equipment, more training, more space, more learning etc. But one other important thing to consider in addition to the "stuff" benefit is that it is a demonstration of our community involvement and commitment. Did you know we have a guiding principle for that? Channing Hall's Governance Policy Guiding Principle* V states, "Principle V - An involved community promotes optimal student learning."** By demonstrating our commitment financially as a cohesive community we are contributing to our students' growth. This is a major reason that we have a participation goal each campaign. We encourage everyone to be involved-regardless of amount contributed- to show support for our school. Did you know that we had essentially 100% participation last year? Now THAT demonstrates an involved community!

There are lots of fun, NEW, and exciting events planned by our Annual Giving committee for this Annual Giving season. For details check out this week's HOWL and coming mailings.


*More information on the Guiding Principles is available on the last page of the recent annual report that all families should have gotten in the mail this week.
**Principle V also includes other types of involvement from the community- including volunteerism,  being an ethical, respectful, responsible community.

Channing Hall Holiday Service Project - In Memory of Tomas

Channing Hall students over the last two years have been involved with Operation Christmas Child . Over the past two years CH students have helped send over 300 shoe boxes full of toys, school supplies and toiletries to children in need around the world. What is especially, touching about the project our students are doing, is that it was initiated last year through Melissa Young by Tomas Hollenbach (then in 3rd grade) whose passing we are mourning at this time. Tomas had brain cancer and over the last year his condition had been deteriorating. During this time his poor health but fighting spirit was a difficult but inspiring learning lesson for our students. Tomas exemplified our IB attitude of Caring and our Principle of our students having a sense of their unique calling by contributing to our global community. Even in Tomas's obituary his family carried on this spirit by asking memorial donations to be donated to Operation Christmas Child. Tomas has embodied what we are attempting to instill in our students and we hope they can carry this on in his memory.

Each box had a "card" inserted made by our students

Miss Young and CH students helping to make "cards" to put into the gift boxes

Cultural Awareness Luau

Pacific Island Luau- 

Despite uncooperative weather our 6th Annual Cultural Awareness Family Night, "Pacific Island Luau" was a great success!  We had the largest turn out we've ever seen at this event, with everyone from babies to grandparents there to enjoy the night.  Cultural Awareness is an important part of our IB studies at Channing Hall.  Each year our student learn about the cultures of a different part of the world.  We hope that through these experiences they will gain a better perspective and understanding of our similarities as well as respect for our differences.  

Anticipation for the evening started early in the day with a traditional roasting of a pig, which was set up on the playground for students to see.  The event also included performances from our own students, as they have been learning songs and dances from the Pacific Islands in both Music and PE  We also had a museum of student's island themed artwork created in Art class.  In addition to student performances we enjoyed a ukulele and singing performance from our Middle School teacher, Mr. Marsden,  who lived in the Pacific Islands for a time and from  Channing Hall's Tavake family who wowed us with they're dancing, singing and ukulele performances.  

During the evening there was also a museum with Pacific Island artifacts on loan to us from the Utah Museum of Fine Art, an exhibit of Island information created by each classroom, Island crafts making flower necklaces and decorating butterflies.  There was a tattoo table to teach about the significance of tattoos in the Island cultures.  A traditional wood carver displayed his work and demonstrated how it's done.  There were food tasting tables which included the roasted pig and other traditional meats, rice, fruits and drinks.  

The finale of the evening was a wonderful performance by traditional island dancers who shared dances from many different cultures in the Pacific Islands.  The performance was interrupted by rain and wind, but everyone scurried to clean up and move indoors where the performance continued in the gym.  Those who stayed through the rain were wowed by the grand-finale Fire-dance!

A big thanks goes out the Cultural Awareness Committee; Shauna Brown, Cyndi Moody, Sueann Fraga and Michelle Crowley, the CHAP Board and the many parent volunteers who made this night a big success!  We still have our Cultural Awareness World Travel Day to look forward to in the spring.

IB Learner Profile in Action at CH

I had the opportunity to capture recent IB principles in play at our school. Sometimes it is hard to remember what those 10 are so I figured if we put pictures to them we can remember them better. Here it is.