A new piece of art for North Branch

Heath Matysek-Snyder in front of the wood art installation

 

North Branch has something new! A 1992 alumni, Heath Matysek-Snyder, worked with his family to install a firewood art piece. As Bonnie said on Facebook: “The objects in the firewood represent components of North Branch School that Heath wanted to honor: picnic table – community, desk – love of learning, tricycle – play. Thank you, Heath, David A., Barbara, Autum, Jeremiah, Xavier, & Stephanie!!”

Jessie’s class met Heath and got to ask questions about the art

More from Band Fair

Below, the Juniors sing “Wagon Wheel” with Stuart, Genevieve, and Genevieve’s brother and sister. Congratulations on a beautiful performance!

Wagon Wheel

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Band Fair 2013

On the morning of Band Fair 11, we were all a little worried about the weather. I packed towels and a raincoat, in anticipation of the 90% chance of thunderstorms. However, the weather transformed itself, and we enjoyed a beautiful, sunny day with temperatures in the 70s. The wonderful live music featured: The Rick Olivarez Trio, The Design Jazz Project, The Dreamtime Project and Jacob Allen and Friends. Students especially enjoyed seeing our own teachers Jon Goff, Stuart Gunter, Jennifer Stuart and Genevieve Dennis on stage. Along with the music, people enjoyed activities such as face painting, the cake walk, a duck pond, the paths through the woods, and tasting Cardinal Point wine. Thank you very much to our hosts, Cardinal Point, and to all of our musicians and sponsors.

Posing with a parrot

Duck pond!

The ever-popular cake walk

The wine raffle table

Cake walk

Stage cat

The very musical Dennis family

Musician and teacher Jon Goff

Musician and teacher Stuart Gunter on drums

Everyone lined up by decade for NBS

Charlotte in the middle

Peter and the Wolf

Primary One and Two put on a charming production of Peter and the Wolf on Friday. They created wonderful costumes and choreographed their own movements. The original score was the accompaniment to the play. Congratulations to the Primaries and teachers for all of their hard work!

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North Branch participates in Relay for Life

North Branch students, staff and parents gathered in the morning and afternoon to mark our participation in Relay for Life. Students, teachers and families made prayer flags to remember and honor loved ones who have had cancer. The nursery class started off the morning walk and the middle students walked for the last hour of the day. Our community raised $546 for cancer research, which we presented to Amy Kirchner of Nelson County Relay for Life. Thank you to Robyn Ebelherr for organizing this event.

Relay ribbons

Prayer flags

At the opening ceremony

Nursery walked first

Flags made by Primaries in art class

The memory table

Youngest NBS member being held by a 7th grader

Robyn, the organizer, with Charlotte

From the memory table

Bonnie giving Amy Kirchner the funds NBS raised

Seniors visit the Museum of Fine Arts

On Wednesday, the Senior class took a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. It was a gorgeous day, and the class ate lunch outside and played games near the sculpture garden. Then we went inside for a guided tour through the Egyptian, Greek and Roman exhibits. It was fascinating for the students to see some of the objects they have been hearing about in Humanities.

Playing Duck, Duck, Goose

The amazing water stairs

Sculpture garden

Chihuly glass

We begin our tour

Eye of Horus

In the Egyptian room

Marble Homer, 2nd Century

Mosaic from a hallway floor, 2nd-3rd century

The mosaic showed four seasons

Class picture!

BandFair XI – May 11, 1-7 PM at Cardinal Point Winery

Please join us as we celebrate North Branch’s 30th Anniversary with Music! Children’s Activities! Local Foods! Cardinal Point Wine! Silent Auction! Cake Walk! Parade of Decades! Wine Raffle! and more. Tickets on sale at North Branch School and Cardinal Point Winery.  Proceeds benefit North Branch School.

Spotlight on Spanish, the garden and poetry

Helping at the food bank

Packing food bank bags

The Juniors perform a Spanish play

Toni & Primary Two report on the garden

Art in the Big Room

The garden chart

Juniors’ animal reports

The Juniors recently learned about large and small animals in Spanish classes. During assembly, the Junior Ones and Oscar sang El Cucarrón Marrón (The Brown Beetle). Junior Twos performed a short play called El Camaleón Aburrido (The Bored Chameleon), inspired by The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. Here is a snippet of the play:

The Bored Chameleon

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Last, Seniors sang Y el Pasto Verde Crecía Alrededor, a song about a tree in a city. More videos of the Spanish performances, as well as some great poetry from Primary Two, to come later this week.

Pictures from today’s Wednesday Group

Wednesday group was busy today! -They had beautiful weather to enjoy – students spent time in the woods, helped prepare the garden, made cute frogs with Liz in art class, and played outside. Here are some pictures from Stuart:

Doing the bunny hop

The youngest NBS student

Wednesday Group in the woods

Frogs the group made in art

Digging in the garden spot

Anansi the Spider – a play by the Juniors

On Earth Day, we were delighted to watch a performance of Anansi Tales by Stuart and Genevieve’s Junior classes.

Anansi

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