Canceled for Today - February 9, 2010
Varsity/JV/Freshmen Boys Basketball @ Home VS. Brookside
MS Boys Basketball @ Wellington
No Middle School or High School Athletic Practices
No Elementary, Middle, or High School After School Activities
No Martial Arts Class
No Play Practice
No Elementary Choir Practice
No Club Connections
No Athletic Practices for Middle or High School
No P.M. Latchkey this Evening
Make Up Dates
MS Boys Basketball @ Wellington - February 11, 2010
MS PAC Tournament Wrestling 4:30 p.m. @ Buckeye- February 12, 2010
Black River Youth Baseball and Softball Sign-Ups 5 to 8 p.m. @ Homerville Community Center - February 18, 2010
Varsity/JV/Freshmen Boys Basketball @ Home vs. Brookside (Senior Night) - February 23, 2010
Father-Daughter Dance - February 26, 2010
Special Band Trip - April 3, 2010
Events Not Re-Scheduled
(These events will not be re-scheduled.)
Black River Alumni Basketball
Freshmen Boys Basketball @ South Central
Varsity Wrestling Tournament @ Loudonville-Perrysville
High School Band Students take part in Honors Band Concert
Five Black River High School students participated in the Tri-County honors band on February 7, 2010 at Wooster College.
Sam Banasek, Josh Dean, Alexis Homoki, Samantha Homoki and Tom Ziebro all auditioned at Smithville High School in November and made one of the Tri-County Honors Bands.
Rehearsals took place on January 11 and February 5 at the Scheide Music Center at Wooster College. All together the students put in eight hours of rehearsal time, for the concert on the 7th.
Congratulations to the students for a job well done! You represented Black River well!
Making the Past Come "Alive"
Gregory Gibson Kenney from Educate Us Productions came to Black River Elementary School to teach us about Louis Armstrong. He dressed up like Armstrong and talked about him from first person view. He told us about Armstrong’s childhood and buying his first horn for 500 pennies. He also told us about Armstrong’s career as a jazz musician. The show was fantastic! He called up a student named Trisha Lee to come up and scat with him. She did a wonderful job! Scat singing is vocal improvisation with random nonsense syllables and sounds. He sang “What a Wonderful World” for us. Mr. Kenney came to the BREC last year and presented York, Lewis and Clark’s African American guide. He has preformed more than forty two hundred programs on the east coast. He won the 1998 Racial
Justice Award for his Jackie Robinson show. I really liked the show and I hope he comes back next year! For more information, you can visit his website at www.educateus.org.
Submitted by: Audrey Smith 5th grade at Black River Elementary.
Power of the Pen
On Saturday, January 23rd, the Black River Middle School Power of the Pen teams traveled to Greene Middle School in Smithville to compete in the district tournament. Thirteen schools were represented at the tournament, with 70 7th grade students and 75 8th grade students competing. The 7th grade Black River team consisted of Courtney Cepec, Victoria Smart, Emily Verhovitz, Nicholas Ross, Caroline Kennedy, and Alex Bertges. The 8th grade team members were Stephanie Shivak, Brett Timothy, Leah Spies, Gabrielle Bolt, Hannah Schack, and Sarah Maley. Stephanie Shivak received 2nd place in the tournament and was also awarded a prize for the Best of Round competition. The regional Power of the Pen tournament will take place on March 6th at A.I. Root Middle School in Medina.
TIME TO CLEAN OUT YOUR HOME LIBRARIES WITH A CHANCE TO WIN $50!!!!!!!
Starting February 1st and ending March 1st, the 8th grade language arts classes will be organizing the third annual book collection. All 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students and staff are encouraged to bring in "lightly used" books that they no longer want. For each donated book, the language arts teacher will issue one ticket per book. The student who donated the books will then put his/her name on the ticket and drop it into a hopper. Daily drawings will be held. On March 1st a final drawing will take place. One ticket will be drawn for a $50 prize, one ticket for a $25 prize, and a $10 prize will be given away. Individual classroom contests may also be in place. The books can be any level from baby to adult books, school appropriate, of course! Community donations accepted. (Pickups can be arranged. Contact
Cheri Scheck at the Middle School). After the contest is over, the books will be divided and distributed to appropriate classes and levels.
We need your help.
LET'S SEE HOW MANY BOOKS WE CAN COLLECT!!!!!!!!!!
Last year we collected over 1700 and our first year we collected 5400!!!!
Dear Parents:
This is just a reminder that you have the opportunity to view your student's grades, online, anytime, through ProgressBook's Parent Access. From the Black River Home Page, click on the Parent Access tab. Students and parents have separate accounts with different capabilities. With a parent account you can link all students attending any of the three building to one account. New
this year to ProgressBook are Parent Alerts. You can be alerted through email when your child has a missing assignment or receives low marks. Just click on My Account then click Manage Alerts.
If you have an active account and have forgotten your password, it can be emailed directly to your email account, if set up. If you need assistance or have forgotten your account information please contact Shelly Baltic at sbaltic@blackriver.k12.oh.us You must place the phase "Parent Access " in the
subject line. If you have comments or concerns about your student's grades please contact the classroom teacher (Do not email your concerns regarding your student to me unless I am your student's teacher.)
Have a great year!
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