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This month’s spotlight is on Hamilton’s Annual Science Fair, which began Friday, February 28 Students from kindergarten through fifth grade participated, and both individual and class projects were submitted Almost 60 projects were turned in They will be on display in the first floor hallway until Thursday. March 27 Mr Vaughn Morrill, Science Supervisor for the Division of Curriculum and Staff Development was the official judge of the science fair.
He picked 20 projects to be submitted at the Annual Science Fair at Queeny Park. which will be held from April 14-17. Good luck to the Hamilton Science Fair Winners!
Also on February 28 was the Black History• Program, -Traditions of Africa.- The program featured African dance, folk tales. jewelry. a commemoration of African American singers, and a skit depicting the important contributions of historical African Americans. Many parents and community members attended the program. as well as a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
An article about the program and a picture of kindergartners participating in an African dance appeared in the March 1 issue of the newspaper. Thanks to all who worked to make the program a success. Hamilton was a site for the first round of the Samuel Shepard Annual Oratorical Contest. Fourth and fifth grade students from eight different St. Louis Public Elementary Schools came to Hamilton to compete. Students from each grade performed an interpretive reading and an original essay. Hamilton participants were Elena Holzum, The Person I Admire Most.” Original Essay. fifth grade. Hanso Denis, Interpretive Reading. fifth grade: Christopher Castello. “If I Had Three Wishes,- Original Essay, fourth grade; and Thuy Nguyen, Interpretive Reading, fourth grade. Congratulations to our Hamilton Oratorical Contest winners. AmeriCorps Volunteers Christopher Pitts and Wanda Hunt have been working with fourth and fifth grade students in an “Adopt a Grandparent” program.
The students have become pen pals with senior citizens at the Memorial Home Nursing Home and Parkview Apartments Senior Citizens Residence.
In February they sent letters and valentines to their “grandparent” pen pals, and in March they will take a field trip to meet them in person. Hamilton School Beat Officers John Cothrine and Robert Vickens have been doing their part to make Hamilton a positive. safe place for our children.
They have been helping with lunch duty and playground duty. serving as mentors for Hamilton students and keeping a neighborhood watch to help safeguard our community They provide the students with a positive image of law enforcement and authority figures.
This spring they will patrol the neighborhood on bicycles in order to expand the scope of their neighborhood watch. Thanks to Officers Cothrine and Vickens for their support The “Friends of Georgia Frontiere: a group of Hamilton Alumni that were Ms. Frontiere’s classmates, have donated an aquarium to Hamilton in Ms. Frontiere’s honor It has been set up in the Georgia S Frontiere Library. which was dedicated last year in her name.
In addition. Ms. Frontiere has donated 60 St. Louis Rams footballs that will be given as perfect attendance prizes at the March “Be There” assembly.
We thank Ms. Frontiere and her friends for their support and dedication to Hamilton.
Finally, as an incentive for students to have perfect attendance for the month of February. the Maritz Corporation opened free admission to the Africa After School Program at the St Louis Science Center.
This exhibit includes a visit to a busy marketplace in Dakar, getting to know the animals of the savanna, watching a paper dashiki demonstration, listening to African music, and creating an African mask or a Mancala board game.
The students at Hamilton who came to school every day in February are eager to learn about the many cultures, peoples and histories that are interwoven to form African culture.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April 1997.
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