Food Drive Success!
Thank you to the entire Peabody community for making our school food drive a huge success! All food donations will feed clients served by 45 of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank’s (BRAFB) partner pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters in the Thomas Jefferson area. This includes the city of Charlottesville, and the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Greene, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock.
The Peabody community collected 256 pounds that will help provide 213 meals to our community members! Thank you to the Peabody community for coming together to support the food drive. Thank you to the service-learning class for helping spread the word about hunger in our area.
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April 12: Virtual Book Club with Katie Hurley: Raising Strong, Confident & Compassionate Girls
Thank you to everyone who joined our Family Speaker Series with psychologist and author KatieHurley on Tuesday, April 12th. If you were unable to attend but are interested in getting more information about what was discussed, please contact our School Counselor at [email protected]. |
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French at Peabody: Bringing Language to Life and Life to Language
Learning another language can sometimes feel like a somewhat esoteric exercise, especially for young people who might not yet have had the experience or opportunity to grasp its utility or possibility. The solution? Peabody’s French teachers, Madame Mayer et Madame Fremy work persistently to bring life to language by facilitating opportunities for Peabody’s budding francophones to put language to work communicating with their peers in France.
In Madame Meyer’s 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes, our French etudiants, with helpful assistance from Google Meet, get the chance to rendezvous monthly with sibling classes in France. Presidential elections have been front-and-center in France this month, so in one interclass conversation this week, our companions in France began the session by leading a game designed to help Peabody students brush up on their election-related vocabulaire. Each student in the class in Besançon would approach the screen to pose a question, in French, about French election terminology, and our Peabody students then replied with the correct term listed on a bingo card filled with the French word answers. Confidence grew, the tables turned, and the Peabody students then had their chance to ask their collègues français questions about election processes and history in France. C'est amusant!
Meanwhile, in las classes de Mme Fremy, 5th graders have been employing the more traditional technologies of pen and paper to communicate with pen pals in France. Every month or so, Peabody’s 5th graders will either write a letter to or receive a letter from students in a class in Belfort, France. The excitement in the classroom is palpable when a new batch of letters arrives from overseas, sparking renewed motivation to put emerging French language skills into practice. And in between these bridge-building correspondences, Mme Fremy fans the flames of enthusiasm with a rich array of songs, games, and activities to build vocabulary, comprehension, and pronunciation. Tres bien, nos amis, et merci beaucoup.
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Camp Invention
Camp Invention is coming back to Peabody School IN PERSON! This inspiring experience has received rave reviews from campers, parents, and teachers, and now it’s returning with an all-new program, Explore! From July 11 to July 15 (9 am-3 pm), rising 1st - 6th graders will team up with friends for fun, hands-on STEM adventures, from adopting a robotic fish to exploring space to building robotic artists and marble arcades! Each activity sparks creativity and builds confidence. Secure your spot by registering online and using promo code SUM25 by 3/31 to save $25.
Also available: Leaders in Training opportunity for rising 7th-9th graders
Learn more about Camp Invention 2022: Explore! on YouTube!
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Sustainability Blip of the Week: Water Health
What is so important about Water Health/Quality?
Water is an essential part of life. Drinking water quality, runoff water, wasteways, stormwater, watersheds, and infrastructure resilience are all important to know about because it affects our health directly. Unhealthy water quality can lead to health issues, especially drinking water, and clean water can also impact ecosystems and the life that lives within it.
Interesting Facts:
- In 2010, 4 million to 12 million metric tons of plastic washed offshore.
- About 1 to 2 liters of water per day are consumed by the average American.
- 1.2 million people die from unsafe water a year.
- Because of the contaminated groundwater, tens of millions of people in Bangladesh have been exposed to poisonous levels of arsenic.
What Can You Do?
Checking your local Consumer Confidence Report will provide information about public water supplies that are local to you. Getting your water tested as well is important, if you don’t use city water, getting your water tested annually can be helpful. If your water is tasting weird, or you are becoming ill from contaminated water, get in touch with someone right away!
Challenge of the Week:
You can do a trash cleanup at a nearby body of water to help the community and the environment. The less pollution, the better. You are also keeping plastic from reaching other bodies of water and washing offshore.
What has been done?*
Many different acts and orders have been taken by the U.S. The Clean Water act is the U.S’s main tool to control water pollution and it has helped a lot. Now there is a health-based standard for drinking water because of the Safe Drinking Water Act and recognized water protection. The Lead and Copper Ryle required systems to monitor drinking water at customer taps. If lead or copper concentrations exceeded a certain level, additional actions would be taken.
*In the U.S only.
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Peabody Running Club
Do you need a reason to love Mondays? Join the Peabody Running Club! Starting Monday, April 11th, the Peabody Running Club welcomes students in grades 5-8 (and any family members who wish to come along) to lace up those sneakers and go for a run. Ms. Harper will lead this crew in a run from school each week and organize opportunities for runners to participate in several local races this spring. Practice will be from 3:30-4:30 and will meet in Ms. Harper’s room before hitting the trail. Email Ms. Harper with any questions - [email protected].
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Alumnae wins Scholarship
Emily Couric Leadership Forum
Katharina Ravichandran, Peabody Class of 2018, is being awarded $38,000 for starting the nonprofit Students Working Against Hunger to enlist students across the region in food drives and restaurant food recovery. Congratulations!
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Earth Day
Peabody students will participate in Earth Day activities next Friday, April 22nd. Activities are designed and led by Ms. Lastinger's Grade 5 science students. Students will be issued a passport and walk from station to station to learn how we can all be good stewards of our environment. It promises to be a fun day of learning...Peabody style!
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Join Us for Peabody Partners in Action!
April
18-29: Stepping Stones Resource Drive supporting the work of Stepping Stone Charlottesville, which provides essentials to under-resourced families with children ages newborn to three living in Cville and Albemarle County. We will collect gently-used items like pack 'n plays, strollers, and clothes, as well as new things like diapers, wipes, pacifiers, pajamas, or hygiene products like lotions, shampoos, and diaper creams. Stepping Stone will then bridge the donations to area non-profits, hospitals, school systems, and social services to identify families in need in order to get these basic items directly to them.
23rd, 9-11 AM: Peabody Partners for the Earth are invited to join the team at Ivy Creek Natural Area for a session on trail maintenance and invasives removal
24th, 10 AM-1 PM: Peabody’s Hiking Club will head out to Fortune’s Cove, a steep and challenging 4-mile hike in Lovingston, VA. RSVP to hike leader Nicola McGoff if you plan to attend
24th, 6:30-8:30 PM: Rally some Peabody friends and come out to Potter’s Tasting Room to enjoy some music together. Peabody’s very own music teacher Matt Wyatt will be performing with Night Teacher.
May
1: Rivanna Riverfest, 11:00-4:00. A celebration of local waterways at Rivanna River Company with food, drink, music, and fun. Other activities will include:
- Water Quality Monitoring Demonstrations
- Pop-up Environmental Education Activities
- Photo Contest Winner Display
- Solar Charging Station from SunDay Solar
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Peabody Baseball Inaugural Game!
Peabody played our first baseball game ever this past Thursday at Lane Field. Although our local nine fell to Buford Middle School, it was a special day for our school and kids. Daniel Hardie delivered the first ever pitch and Asher Marini scored our first run! Thank you to Coach Duncan, Broadhurst, and Marini for all of their work to make this happen!
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Wizard of Oz on Stage at Peabody!
We are excited about our first drama performance in two years next week. Please be on the lookout next week for details and directions about the performances.
There will also be a student-led (Noah W, Max D, and Charlotte H 3rd Grade) bake sale just after the final bows of the Wizard of Oz performance to support Pangolins because they are an endangered species. Safety measures will be in place, including individual wrapping and cashiers wearing masks. Please support Pangolin conservation by purchasing baked goods and or lemonade. Cash only.
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Graduation and Promotion 2022
We are happy to be bringing back our end-of-year graduation and promotion ceremony on June 3, 2022. The last full day of classes is June 2nd. All students will attend our 8th-grade graduation on the morning of June 3rd followed by a fun promotion ceremony for all other grades. All families are invited! More details to come in May!
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Parent Information Center
- Susan Parmar will be on-site next week to take class photos. Photos will be outside and students will be unmasked for less than 1 minute.
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We Love our Peabody Teachers and Students!
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