The Art of Photography and Mixed Media

Out with the new...in with the old!

Arts Academy at Summit held an empty bowls event to raise funds for a local food bank. “Empty Bowls” is a movement by artists in cities and towns around the world to raise money for food-related charities to care for and feed the hungry in their communities. Grades 3-6 learned about Empty Bowls and how they give back to local communities and help students in various schools around the world just like Canton City Schools. Younger levels learned how food is grown on farms and what it takes to get it to their homes. Students in the After School Program continued the discussion by learning about the relationship between math and food. They read about farm-to-table produce, then continued using math to discover how foods can be divided up and shared between people.

On the day of the Empty Bowls event, our community partner joined us to help push our common initiative further. Information was given about Charlotte & Main and the Marlin and Minnie Snyder Founda- tion, which helps students who age out of the foster care system, while patrons perused the student ceramic bowls and enjoyed the soup that was provided by Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ.

You can visit Charlotte & Main at their 4201 Hills and Dales Rd NW, Canton, OH 44708 location to help continue supporting their initiatives and we thank the Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ for their vibrant and tasty support of our program.

Vans Camera visited Arts Academy students to discuss and demonstrate how 35mm film is exposed and developed. Students focused on how light is used to create a print on an emulsion negative and then scanned to produce a print. Vans Camera started the discussion that led to our students taking their own photos with pinhole cameras. Pinhole cameras were created out of shoe boxes and a copper plate with a pin-sized hole in it. After placing the light-sensitive paper in the pin-hole camera and exposing it to light for 10 seconds, students used darkroom techniques to develop their images. Sixth grade had 35mm portraits taken of them that were later used to make portrait poems in their English Language Arts course. These are poems that capture a portrait of a poet, written by the poet. Adding an image to these helps students better express their ideas and feelings. t Continued From Page 1

Proceeds from the shop support the Marlin and Minnie Snyder Foundation.

Planting Seeds!

A sensory garden is being created for all students to touch, taste, and smell various herbs. A sensory garden is a wonderful way for children to explore their senses and learn about the environment around them. It is also a healthy place of discovery and gets children outdoors.

At our Family Night in May, our AIM families were able to take home two plants. Veggie plants will be available to families of AIM students, along with everything needed to start an at-home vegetable garden.

A big thank you to Mrs. Woolf, Mrs. Gerber, and our students for all of their hard work in our garden. We are excited to see what we grow over the summer.

AIM students tend their plants.

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Hello Bulldog Nation!

offering an opportunity to tour and reminisce. Watch our social media and website for announcements on that later.

And as many of us are working hard for the coming school year, we also have several other projects underway.

The STEAMM Academy at Hartford is getting an 11,000-squarefoot multipurpose facility with a rubberized floor for indoor recess and after-school activities. Large garage doors will open to the planned garden and pond area being added for the agricultural program, which already includes a greenhouse and chickens.

The Bulldog Performance Center is currently under construction on the downtown campus. Please look for Assistant Superintendent Dixon’s update on that in this newsletter. We continue to improve our facilities by adding spaces dedicated to creating opportunities for our students to learn new skills and develop into well-rounded citizens. The new spaces allow for career tech expansion and more after-school enrichment, club sports, and activities at the middle school level.

The Timken Building will also see a major facelift as we prepare to expand our Choices Middle and

High School programs. Eventually, Choices will occupy two floors of Timken, the Adult Ed programs will occupy the fourth floor, and our Career Tech will continue in its existing spaces. The CTE Performance Arts Theatre Program will join them. With that, the Timken Building will be full once again.

Finally, I am pleased to announce that our district received a $650,000 safety grant for additional security updates. We have evaluated our needs district-wide and at press time for this issue we were presenting our recommendations to the board. Please check our website for updates on our safety and security plans for the upcoming school year.

I want to thank everyone for their partnership and support throughout the past year. I look forward to another successful school year as we hit the ground running next month. As always, I invite you to get involved in your Canton City School District.

Visit us at www.ccsdistrict.org. Go Pups!