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Fundraiser:
The Masterpiece Bench, created by the 5th grade students in Mrs. Drake's class and art teacher, Mr. Eric Sutton, at Loper Elementary School, is the result of several class periods involving careful planning, cutting, decoupaging, and TEAMWORK!
Students helped SCUFFY through personally delivering Valentine Grams. A card and song were sent to Coulston students and staff members by fifth
graders with the money donated to SCUFFY. The students displayed their
care of others through this activity.
Shelbyville Middle School’s seventh grade Language Arts spring semester curriculum centered on the theme “Do the Right Thing.” Throughout the semester, students focused on answering two essential questions: How do I do the right thing for myself? How do I do the right thing for my family and community? Their investigations required extensive fiction and consumer literature readings, as well as several expository, and persuasive writings.This year’s service project was a landscape renewal project on the SMS school grounds. The students researched and planned a planting scheme for an area around the school sign. In science class students researched appropriate plant materials, and in math, they figured the area of the plant site and cost of the project. Students then used this information in English class to prepare a proposal convincing the administration that their planting plan was the best. Please view the PowerPoint to see what the "right thing" was! Community Service PowerPoint Slide Show
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The bench is decoupaged with famous art works found by the students in art magazines and books. It will then be auctioned during the Fundraiser. Each year the Council provides sponsors, which in turn donate unfinished benches to schools in Shelby County. The challenge is for each school to develop a theme with can be incorporated into a bench design. The completed benches always generate fierce bidding when they are sold at the fundraiser's auction! The following pictures are a visual timeline, which document the bench's transformation from beginning to end. Major Hospital, who is Loper's sponsor, will feature the bench in their main lobby from May until the Council's fundraiser event. It truly is a "masterpiece!"
