This year’s prom is shaping up to be one of the best ever! A Parisian Event that will enchant and delight you! The food is being catered by the Pop Shop in Collingswood, NJ, the Pros will be spinning the tunes, the menu is incredible — its going to be a fantastic night!! The Prom Committee has surprises in store and hopes that everyone has turned their permission slips in! Only one week away! See you next Friday night!
Let’s congratulate Marquise for participating in the “Best of the Class” last week at Drexel University. The half-hour show will air on Channel 6, May 15th at 7:00 p.m. Way to go, Marquise!
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of businesses and non-profit organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events — www.poets.org
Today is National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Its a day that commemorates the sharing of poetry, and students in the High School Program did just that! The life skills classes got together for an amazing poetry reading. Everyone shared their name poem, either by reading it aloud, or using switches to share it with others. It was a really happy event filled with lots of smiles and great poetry.
A big poetic shoutout to the students in Mr. Foster, Ms. Adams, and Ms. Tyrell’s classes. Great work!
Each year Overbrook School for The Blind participates in the annual EAAB bowling tournament. Mr. Strong said, “I am very proud and honored to coach and honor the following players for this year’s tournament.” Luigi, Maria, Jewel, Romona, Gordan, Joshua, Charles, Ahmad, Michael, David, and Joey. Each student will be recognized in a sports banquet and will receive their Overbrook jacket during graduation. I just want to thank all the students and their staff for another fun successful year of bowling. Great job to all involved. — Mr. Dennis Strong, Coach
The Women’s Track coaches would like to thank all the girls that came out for the track team this year. As we wish we could take you all to the tournament we are only allowed ten and here they are: Heather, Siani, Ariel, Jill, Lesia, Traneice, Amiah, Nygea, Kassandra, Arcelia.
Please come out on Wednesday May 5th to see these girls along with Sherrita, Ayanna, Tyeisha, Edith, and Sara as they compete against West Virginia. Starting time for this meet will be 1:00 o’clock
An Artist’s Vision
Friday, May 14, 2010
6pm - 9pm
Beautiful artwork is arriving for the upcoming event, An Artists Vision. Work by students, staff at Overbrook, artists from the Philadelphia region and across the country. We are thrilled with the generosity of so many artists who have taken the time help us make this show spectacular.
We are reaching out to you, to ask you if you have RSVP’d for your evening of delicious food, wonderful art, and a sense of community. Your donation will help us to fund our programs and keep our curriculum vital — your support makes a difference in the lives of our students.
Student artwork and artwork from professional blind and community artists will be on display and for sale. Enjoy Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres while listening to the lovely Teri Rambo and taking in all the glorious art that will be on display.
Tickets are available for pre-purchase and at the door. We hope to see you there!
More information about this wonderful event is available here.
Mr. Gerald Kitzhoffer, director of OSB, applied for a waiver for two of our seven snow days, as they were states of emergency. The official notification has been received and the waiver has been approved! Therefore, the last day of School will be on Monday June 21, 2010, instead of Wednesday June 23, 2010.
Please make note of these changes.
Ms. Adacusky’s English classes spend a great deal of time reading literature, writing poetry, improving literacy and having a great time while learning. For Earth Day, the students wrote poetry to pay respect to our great planet.
In the Earth’s Shoes
If I walked in the earth’s shoes,
I would want people to recycle, reduce, reuse.
Everyday, I wonder how the earth feels.
I think it says “is this really real?”
Why do people mistreat it? Lie to it and cheat it?
Is it because you hate it? If so, don’t violate it.
This is a disgrace;
Clean up the place.
Everything should be clean anyway. Would you want to live like that everyday?
Water should be brown or green, or blue.
Flowers that are new should continue to look new.
Reuse paper bags. Don’t let them drag as you walk along the ground.
This is why the earth frowns.
If something is green that is meant to be green, then keep it green by keeping the earth clean.
You should go green. You know what I mean. I’m tired of dirt. Let’s change this whole scene.
I am in the earth’s shoes, and this is how I feel.
Ebony
Yesterday marked the culmination of months of work for Donal Buie and Jeffery Boudwin, who presented at the AER Spring Vision Conference in Grantville, PA, on the Braille Plus Mobile Manager. Although the two High School students are experts on their devices, they had never presented to a large group of educators before. They practiced for many hours, wrote dialog, re-wrote dialog, and held together the rest of the activities and education happening daily in their lives.
They set off for Grantville, PA early with Ms. Marano, Mrs. Whartnaby and Ms. Dael Cohen. It was a gorgeous day, and everyone was excited! When asked if they were nervous, they both responded “a little” with smiles on their faces. Everyone whose ever presented knows how daunting it can be to stand up in a room full of people and engage, educate and entertain an audience. Imagine being a student who was going to present to educators and end users — quite an honor, as well as responsibility.
The guys did wonderfully! They were professional, knowledgeable, interesting and made the audience laugh too. The audience was attentive, interested and truly engaged with their presentation. Questions were asked, and the two responded with grace. It was apparent that they had prepared well and were enjoying themselves.
Jeff and Donal were a big hit at the conference and we are more than proud of them. They were the first two students to ever present at this yearly event. Staff and students alike are glowing today at Overbook at the remarkable job they did. Our school is so proud of your accomplishment!
What started as an idea blossomed into a life experience well-worth the effort. Way to go Jeff and Donal!
The Prom is just 2 weeks away. Don’t miss out on the fun! Please turn in your money and permission slips to Mrs. Whartnaby before Monday, May 3rd. The theme is a Passport to Paris! The prom committee has many wonderful surprises planned and has outdone themselves this year! Looking forward to an incredible evening. Hope you can make it!