Join US!

All 1st-8th graders are invited to join our FREE Summer Monarch Club in partnership with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. This August, we will be studying monarchs, as citizen scientists, on-site at Waters' pollinator garden, at Ronan Park's Butterfly Sanctuary and at Chicago's own "Butterfly Museum."

More information below---:)!

Please email me if you are interested!

alvecchioni@cps.edu

Greetings Everyone!

Thank you for another GREAT school year! When I look back at how far we've come this year...

I am truly amazed! BRAVO!

Thank you ALT Crew, S.O.S Club, Literary Salon Librarians, Wavemakers, Grrl Scouts, Critter Club and M&M Club members! Thanks for your change making support at Eco-Art Fest events and fundraising over $600 while creating eco-awareness art sales this year:)).

Many thanks to our LSC Fine Arts Subcommittee and all of our community support this year! Many thanks to Lisa & Sandra for your help with Maker Week! Thank you Vanessa for all of your help with our exhibits and installations:)! Thanks too Joanne--- for your countless hours...And Miss Julie---THANK YOU:)!

Next year, we plan to enhance our fine arts offerings and look forward to quarterly---Global Arts Events! If you would like to be a part of this parent focus group---send me an email and I will touch base in August!

With Kindness,

Mrs. Vecchioni

Our spring Eco-Art Fest was a celebration of our semester (and school year) of good work--- looking closely... Students were artists-in-residence, docents, teachers and leaders at this interactive learning event!

We studied Chicago from a variety of perspectives and lenses including:

• Potawatomi Heritage & Indigenous Rights
  
• Bronzeville Roots & Civil Rights Movement
  
• Chicago River as Maker of History
  
• Plants, Animals and Insects as 1st Inhabitants of this great place
  

A huge thanks to EVERYONE who joined us at our event! Thanks too to the students who ran the Eco-Fest activities!

A.K.A. RAS' Happy Land...

Our CPS FPAMC Microgrant has awarded us $3,500 in art supplies that we have put forward to our Secret Garden! We are enhancing last year's fairy garden design based on our real-world observations!

Students K-8 grade have created mason and leafcutter bee houses and the bees have been shipped! Soon to be invited to pollinate our flowers!

(Mason and leafcutter bees' sting isn't painful. They mostly fly away on contact anyway:)).)

• More sandbox free-play and learning space for little ones
• More infrastructure to support bug hotels and insect study
  
• More care to erosion of space---keep vandalism down, update structures
• Remake habitat for fairies, mason bees, gnomes, leafcutter bees, pixies, ladybugs and many flowers to pollinate
• Remake a safe-space for all to gather---a true agora:)...

Let's go...

Email: alvecchioni@cps.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/d/1gOUlvaGSjnayJ61cdOPaXypKNpvOdGJV/p/14ySrnWMMiGx6GPdqlhp3WTS91W4QRW9J/edit
Location: 4540 North Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
Phone: 7735345090