A Look at What’s Happening at . . . DOHERTY LOTSPEICH
Fifteen very brave fifth graders, along with Mrs. Hickenlooper, Mrs. Wichman and Mrs. Dawson, went on a 6 1/5 mile backpacking trip last weekend with the Outdoor Program. Right after school on Friday they learned how to pack a backpack, then they loaded the vans and traveled to East Fork State Park. They hiked a mile and a half to the overnight camp site, set up the tents, started a fire and cooked dinner. The rain held off all evening so they could enjoy roasting marshmallows and s’mores. On Saturday they hiked five miles up and down the hills along East Fork Lake. It was a very challenging, rewarding experience. Photos page 5. Boy Scouts worked with the fifth grade Webelos and together compiled 301 bags of food for the Freestore/Foodbank. The food is for elementary students to take home on the weekends. The boys learned that some students are given two meals at school, but when they are home they don’t always have enough food to eat. The importance of their task was not lost on the Doherty Scouts. They worked efficiently without stopping, keeping up with the bigger boys, while being extremely respectful of their surroundings. Photo page 7. Mrs. Davis offered a challenge to second and third graders to read the Secrets of Droon series on their own after reading the first book together. Second grader Sophia Couzins and third graders McKenzie Mullin, Sophia Mulica and Bridget Muica accepted the challenge
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and Mrs. Bone, the following students represented Seven Hills Middle School at the Ohio Association of Students Councils State Conference on April 23: Emily Addy, Abby Clark, Brian Goertemoeller, Celeste Kearney, Andrew Ligeralde, Nicole Malofsky, Jessica Seibold, and Emma Uible.
the Upper community on April 16 are on page 16.
As part of their colonial studies, fifth graders did oral report presentations on colonial trades. More photos page 8.
Visitors learned a great deal about Cincinnati history when they toured the third graders’ Living History Museum. Photos page 11. On April 28 seventh graders spent the day in the Little Miami River on a field trip with the Ohio River Foundation. Students used kick seines to catch fish, collected and identified macroinvertebrates, and ran chemical tests on the river water. At the end of the day they concluded that the Little Miami River is in good health and will stay that way as long as we take care of our watershed. More photos page 12.
More science activities: Environmental epidemiologist Dr. Susan Pinney spoke with the fifth graders about man-made chemicals and the study she is currently conducting at the University of Cincinnati on the levels of these chemicals found in growing girls. The Upper School Science Club visited the fifth graders to teach them the chemistry behind
Senior Justin Rau was invited to participate in the Junior Men’s National Team Sweep Selection Camp in Princeton, NJ, to train for selection to the US National Junior Rowing Team. The championship is being held in Prague this summer. Four coxswains are invited to the camp and only two will make the final cut. Photos from Upper’s production of Sense and Sensibility, adapted from the Jane Austen novel by the Acting Workshop class, are on page 18.
The fourth graders had a great time at Camp Kern! Photos page 11.
Ms. Wildfong said, “The second graders discovered their lung capacities in science class by blowing the biggest bubble they could with one breath and then measuring the circumference.”
Upper had a very successful Global Issues Day on April 23. News and photos page 15.
In Language Arts, sixth graders study the book, Three Cups of Tea, One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. In the inspiring book, the authors recount the journey that led Mortenson from a failed 1993 attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully establish schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The sixth graders had the opportunity to join the Upper Schoolers for the Global Issues Day address by alumna Hannah Bloch, who was appointed as Time’s first full-time foreign correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1996. Photo of
Mrs. Marrs, Director of College Counseling, has been asked to continue to serve on The Princeton Review National College Counselor Advisory Board. Appointed to the Advisory Board in 2008, she is one of three college counselors in Ohio and the only one in Cincinnati currently serving on the 23-member Board, which is composed of college counseling professionals from across the United States. She is also a member of the Fiske Guide to Colleges Counselor Advisory Group. Mrs. Richardson’s English 9 classes celebrated William Shakespeare’s birthday (belatedly, because of Global Issues Day on April 23). Students sang for his 446th birthday, ate birthday cupcakes, and reviewed some information about his life and death. They also analyzed two sonnets, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” and “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” “Having studied Romeo and Juliet in eighth grade, most freshmen like Shakespeare,” said Mrs. Richardson. Photo page 19. Kite artist Debbie Von Bokern and Diane Kruer’s 8th bell General Art class made a 22’ long snake kite and flew it on the hill behind the DAC. Laura Arnold 3