From the President Terri McGraw

Hello SCAPA friends!

If you missed THRILLER – you missed a great performance! Great job to those dance majors!

I just got word from our Kroger card representative, Miranda Hines and she tells me that we will receive another check for almost $300 for our usage of the Kroger cards. Please keep up the good work – especially during the upcoming holidays – DON’T FORGET TO USE YOUR KROGER CARDS!!!

We are also in the process of selling Coffee/Tea from Coffee Times. This is a great gift for the holidays! Contact Jackie Sugarman at ajamir@aol.com if you have not been asked by a student to purchase coffee/tea.

Don’t forget, if you are an ARTS AREA Representative, this is a busy time of year! Please make sure that you are corresponding with your art area teacher so that you can inform the parents in that specific art area of what is on the agenda. Lots of concerts, shows, rehearsals and performances. Keep your parents informed!

Last, but certainly not least, don’t forget the wonderful performances coming up! Please try to attend even if your child is not involved. Get your tickets & come and watch Aladdin & Jasmine at the Opera House on November 11th-13th and/or attend the wonderful performance of “The Front Page” at Beeler Auditorium on November 11th-14th.

Now until the end of the year will fly by just like the magic carpet – so put your hands and feet inside the carpet and away we go!!!

Terri McGraw
tmcgraw@milestoneky.com

From Beth Randolph, Bluegrass Principal

Dear SCAPA Family,

As those of you who have been a part of our family for years know, November is an extremely busy time for SCAPA students, parents, and teachers. First, Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. will go up on November 11th at the Lexington Opera House for eight performances. Second, the 20th of November seems to be an exceedingly busy day. Our middle school band will be performing in the Tri-State Honor Band and the middle school strings students will perform in the Solo and Ensemble Competition. If this weren’t enough, SCAPA’s Speech Team has its first tournament of the year that day at Lafayette High School. Additionally, this month the dance departments are hosting renowned guest artists, Valerie Bergman and Darryl Thomas with the Rainbow Dance Theatre from Monmouth, Oregon. These dancers and choreographers will be teaching our students for a week and then performing at the newly opened Lyric Theatre. Later this first week of November, the elementary vocal majors will be traveling to Richmond to perform in the Central Kentucky Music Educators Association’s Elementary Choral Festival. Finally, the visual art students will be completing Art Lease pieces to be displayed at the Bodley-Bullock House on November 19th as part of the last Gallery Hop for the year. As we push toward these exciting events, let’s pause to be thankful for all that we are blessed to have.

Reading over this list of special events, it is easy to see that our students have opportunities that are both unbelievable and certainly out of the ordinary for many public school students. Yet, November is not an uncommon month for SCAPA. Our students have the luxury of artistic and academic opportunities that contribute enormously to their success as well-rounded individuals. In a recent study the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, “Students who study the arts seriously are taught to see better, to envision, to persist, to be playful and learn from mistakes, to make critical judgments and justify such judgments.” Ms. Winner, one of the Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers found two other very interesting facts about an arts education.

1. Students who make music improve their visual skills.
2. Students who participate in drama events increase their verbal skills.
   

Similarly, Elliot Eisner, a professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, finds that an arts education advances the notion that students are more likely to understand that there is not just one answer to a problem or question, but instead that multiple solutions to problems are possible and encouraged. If these benefits were not enough, Edward Pauly, director of research and evaluation at the Wallace Foundation, has concluded that an arts education enhances a student’s ability to be empathic and tolerant of others. He explains, “There is no substitute for listening to jazz, seeing ‘Death of a Salesman’ performed, reading To Kill a Mockingbird, or seeing the Vietnam War Memorial. These powerful experiences only come about through the arts.” Other educators conclude that if critical thinking skills are enhanced because of the arts, then this learning transfers into increased academic achievement and stronger test scores.

Personally, I’ve known for twenty-three years how fortunate I am to be a part of SCAPA. I have seen first-hand the benefits that an arts education has given our students. I am grateful to Fayette County Public Schools, SCAPA’s teachers, parents, and students for making the most out of the available opportunities. Because of everyone’s hard work, our elementary students tied for sixth in the state on their 2010 Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) and our middle school students have once again topped the state in their KCCT scores. This is another proof that we can’t over estimate the value of remembering to Keep the Arts in our Hearts: Appreciation, Respect, Teamwork, and Self-Discipline – Go Penguins.

Sincerely,
Beth Randolph

From Vicki Ritchie, LHS Principal

Dear Parents,

October sped by like a racehorse – or more like our winning Cross Country teams! Our fall activities have been exciting and inspiring. Our LHS drama production of The Diary of Anne Frank was a heartrending portrayal of the horrors of war and the triumph of the human spirit. Our Lafayette Chorus performed with the Lexington Philharmonic to rave reviews. Many of our performing and athletic groups will continue their competitions into November.

October also saw our first LHS Career Day for seniors. Many community members, including several LHS parents, spoke about career and college choices on October 15. Our Career Clusters Committee organized and implemented the plan to make sure our seniors have access to as much information as possible as they make their final plans for after graduation. Thanks to Sarah Day, Vince Tinker and all the guest speakers and presenters!

Our juniors have less than 80 school days left before the March ACT. Our teachers are talking with juniors to make sure they know how they did on the PLAN test during their sophomore year and helping prepare them for the test. We have several Saturday sessions scheduled for students to come and complete practice tests. The first three Saturday sessions will be held on November 6, 13, and 20. Please see our website for more details.

Vicki Ritchie

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Becoming Yourself

 by Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman

Last month during the tour with Andre Pater he said something that got me thinking. He was responding to a request for advice to our students as to how to achieve success? He clarified that there are many ways to define success. He spoke of the greatest success being the feeling you get when you have created something that deeply touches another person. His wisdom was both inspiring and heartfelt. He ended by saying, “Above all, be yourself.  After all, you cannot be anyone else anyway.” 

This sounds like such simple advice.  Be yourself.  I mean it’s two words.  But in fact it is one of the greatest challenges we face. For to be yourself, you have to know yourself.  And that takes time and effort, not to mention the fact that it is a dynamic process.  The self you are changes over time - some ways more, some ways less - making this a lifelong process.  So I would like to slightly alter Mr. Pater’s advice to say, “Become yourself!”

I once heard a University Provost say, “Becoming is superior to being.” ‘Being’ describes a static, unchanging state while ‘becoming’ recognizes the active, evolving nature of the self. Becoming also suggests that the process is one over which we have control. We have the power to choose who we will become. We make choices every day that reflect who we are and who we are becoming.

Unfortunately there seems to be a great deal of confusion about what it means to be or become yourself. Somehow being yourself has become equated with expressing yourself. There seems to be an obsession with expressing yourself, expressing your individuality. Our young people seem to be especially, but not solely, caught up in this confusion. This is not surprising when you consider the powerful forces that are pressuring them to become someone other than themselves. If you pay any attention to the media and advertising, you get the impression that there is a particular way they should all strive to be. They are bombarded with messages encouraging them to express themselves, express their individuality. But while the necessity for expressing individuality is being touted, being different is actually discouraged.

The interpretation of what individuality means is extremely superficial. Individuality is not about what brand you wear, the number or type of piercings or tattoos you exhibit, what kind and how many of the newest technological gadgets you have, or who you hang around with. Individuality is much more than these external trappings.  In fact, we could all wear the exact same thing and our individuality would still shine through.

We are born with individuality. There are no two of us exactly alike. The challenge is to fully become the individual we have the ability to be. It is about who we are on the inside. How we are and what we do. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat others. This is the essence of our individuality and becoming ourselves.

As parents, how do we facilitate the process of our children becoming themselves?

Create a vision. We are our children’s original mirrors. They come to know the earliest versions of themselves through their interactions with us. Have a vision for your child. Not a rigid, specific vision, but a general vision. A vision of the kind of person you want them to become. This vision will then direct your actions. What we reflect back to our children is what they come to believe about themselves.

Tell them who they are. Each of our children has a unique story. Tell them their birth story. Tell them about their first word, their first birthday, and their early experiences. Tell them about all the people who love them. Tell them their family history. Share your memories of their childhood that you treasure.

Model and encourage the qualities you value. It is not enough to tell our children how we want them to be. We must show them. Remember - they may not be listening to everything you say, but they are watching everything you do. In addition, we must notice when they are doing what we expect and recognize their efforts and accomplishments.

Help them create a vision of themselves. Spend time discussing with your child the kind of person they want to become. Help them develop a plan to achieve this vision that includes both short and long-term goals. Help them identify what they are already doing that fits their vision. Explore what aspects of themselves do not fit with their vision and what they might need to change.

Give them great examples. As our children strive to become themselves, it is essential that we also expose them to examples of excellence. When it comes to “being yourself” as an artist, it is first necessary to study and even emulate the masters. Andre Pater did not start off painting in his own style. He spent years learning the skills and techniques developed by generations of artists before him. He practiced and refined his talent until he was ready to create his own unique version of visual art. You don’t see great musicians improvising before they can play the music correctly. It is a bit pretentious to think you can improve on the masters before you have demonstrated the ability to achieve their standards. This is true regardless of the art discipline or whatever profession our children wish to pursue.

Many of our Bluegrass SCAPA students are getting ready to perform Disney’s musical version of Aladdin. This is actually a story about the importance of becoming yourself and not trying to be what you are not. My favorite verse is in a song Aladdin sings where he says, “Rifraf. Street rat. I don’t buy that. If only they’d look closer. Would they see a poor boy? No, siree. They’d find out there’s so much more to me.”

Aladdin proves that the measure of his value is not determined by the clothes he wears or his address. He demonstrates through his actions - his kindness, his loyalty, his determination, his courage – that he is worthy of the princess’ love. May we, and our children, all have the courage to become ourselves – the best version of ourselves we can be.

Prior to her role as SCAPA Arts Facilitator, Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman was a Parent/Family Life Educator and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She was the author of The Parents’ Toolbox for The Lexington Family Magazine as well as Pastoral Parenting for the Church of the Resurrection newsletter.

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Announcements and Reminders

Shows You Won't Want to Miss!

Bluegrass SCAPA Presents "Disney's Aladdin, Jr." at the Lexington Opera House

• Thursday, November 11 at 7pm
  
• Friday, November 12 at 8pm
  
• Saturday, November 13 at 2:00pm and 8:00pm
  
• $12/student and $14/adult in advance or $1/ticket more at the door
  
• Tickets available at the Lexington Center Box Office, 233-3535

Lafayette SCAPA Presents "The Front Page" in Beeler Auditorium at Lafayette High School

• Thursday, November 11 at 7pm
  
• Friday, November 12 at 8pm
  
• Saturday, November 13 at 8pm
  
• Sunday, November 14 at 2pm
  
• $8/student and $10/adult at the door 90 minutes prior to curtain

Art Lease

An Invitation from Cindy Kewin

Mrs. Kewin is preparing to direct her final musical production as she is retiring at the end of the year. She is revisiting “Bye Bye Birdie” which was her first musical. I hope lots of our SCAPA students are able to respond to her request below.

Dear former Lafayette Drama member,

We are so excited about the musical this year, Bye Bye Birdie. We want you to be involved. We are asking all former drama students to come back and be in one more LHS production. Following is the time commitment so you can consider being involved.
You would be in one number, “Kids”, and in the curtain call. You would need to memorize the song and some simple dance/movement along with it. In December we will send you words and a You Tube link as well as “dance” instructions.

You will need to come up with a costume also. Something from the late 1950’s suitable for a mom or dad! So shirt waist dresses, pencil skirts with a peter pan collar top for the women, Suits with pencil ties for the men!

You do not have to commit to all rehearsals or shows but we do need to know which shows you would be able to commit to for logistic purposes. Here are all the plans:

• January 8th 10:00 AM Rehearsal
  
• January 9th 2:00 PM Rehearsal
  
• January 10th 7:00 PM Rehearsal
  
• January 11th 7:00 PM Rehearsal
  
• January 12th 7:00 PM Rehearsal
  
• January 13th 7:00 PM Show Call time TBA
  
• January 14th 7:00 PM Show Call time TBA
  
• January 15th 7:00 PM Show Call time TBA
  
• January 16th 2:00 PM Show Call time TBA
  
• 7:00 PM Catered Cast Party at Signature Club
• Again, you do not have to commit to all rehearsals or shows. Just let us know which ones you can commit to.
  Please pass the word to everyone you can think of so we can have a great celebration of the FOK (Franklin, Owen, Kewin) Production team as we retire!!!

SCAPA Families Invited to Kentucky Christmas Chorus

The holiday season is just around the corner and we have received our invitation to participate in the Kentucky Christmas Chorus as a group. The location has changed this year. It will be held at the Singletary Center. The date is Tuesday, December 14th and I believe we arrive to be seated at 7pm and it begins at 7:30 or 8pm. This is really a fun tradition if you have never attended. We have a SCAPA banner that we hold and we encourage everyone to dress their holiday cheeriest.

If you would like to join our group, please let me know as soon as possible. I have to reserve seats and they want an exact count. I am going to set the deadline for sending your numbers to me for Wednesday, December 1st. You can email me at carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us or call me at 381-3332 (ext. 1102).

I hope to hear from lots of you! Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman, SCAPA Arts Facilitator

Donation Request for the Holidays

Please carefully consider this opportunity to donate to our military during the holidays. Mr. Neuzel is the photographer who has been taking headshots and making our kids look great for years.

Hello SCAPA Families,

This is a list of items that we could use at Military Missions to put in the care packages that we send to the troops. Last year we sent over 2000 care packages at Christmas time. However, we send care packages all year long, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

There will be a box out in the foyer of SCAPA Bluegrass. Please place your items in it and I will pick them up as the box fills.

We are collecting now and would like to conclude the Christmas rush by Nov. 30.

I can be reached at 272-3732 or lwnmm@insightbb.com if anyone has any questions. Thanks for considering to help Military Mission to collect items for care packages for our troops.

Larry Neuzel

Continuous SCAPA FUNdraisers

There are 3 ways that you can financially support SCAPA all year long with minimal effort!

• When you shop at Amazon.com, use the icon on the front page of the FOAS website, www.friends-scapa.org, and SCAPA gets money for every order you make!
• Purchase a SCAPA Kroger card from Miranda Hines, 351-4931, mhines@email.uky.edu. Use your SCAPA Kroger card!
• Put a sandwich-sized baggy on your refrigerator door. Clip Box Tops for Education and put them in the bag. Turn your bag of Box Tops into your child’s homeroom each month!

Remember that when you contribute to SCAPA it benefits every student, grades 4-12, in every arts area. You can make a difference!

Friends of the Arts School (FOAS) Meetings

Mark you calendars for the meeting dates in 2010-11

All FOAS Meetings will be held in Bluegrass SCAPA, Room 146 at 6:00pm on these dates:

• October 19
  
• November 16
  
• December 14
  
• January 18
  
• February 15
  
• March 15
  
• April 19
  
• May 17

Meeting Minutes

• September 21
• August, 2010
• July, 2010
• June, 2010
• May 2010 (TBP)
• April 2010 (TBP)
• March 2010
• February 2010
• January 2010
• December 2009
• November 2009
• October 2009
• September 2009
• August 2009
• June 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009

SBDM Meeting Minutes

• September 2009

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Recent Events

“Thriller” Thrills SCAPA

The middle school contemporary dance majors impressed the entire school and visitors on Friday afternoon, October 29th, as they performed “Thriller” to a packed audience. What a great way to get ready for Halloween with this year’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s famous song and dance

A Tribute to the Horse

On a cool, breezy, October, Saturday in Triangle Park the LHS SCAPA Piano Majors played music that celebrated the horse during the Museum-Go-Round. Each of the students played a solo as well as several pieces as a keyboard ensemble. It was amazing! The students had each created a poster to announce the title and composer of their piece which were lovely. Here is the program:

• Coleman Stivers - The Run for the Roses by Dan Fogelberg
  
• Stephen Weatherbee – The Easy Winners by Scott Joplin
  
• Elizabeth Mirsky – Andalusian Rhapsody by Timothy Brown
  
• Erin Mathews – Jessica’s Theme from “Man from Snowy River” by Bruce Rowland
  
• Nicki Frost – Knight of the Rocking Horse from “Scenes from Childhood, Op.15, No. 9” by Robert Schumann
  
• Kana Haraguchi – Hunting Song by Felix Mendelssohn
  
• Laura Westneat – The Favorite by Scott Joplin
  
• The LHS SCAPA Piano Majors Keyboard Ensemble – Sport of Kings by Susan Ogilvy
  
• All the Pretty Little Horses, Traditional, Arr. By Susan Ogilvy
  
• The Horseman by Dmitri Kabalevsky
  
• Kentucky Romp by Susan Ogilvy

Thank you to Mrs. Cathy Rowland (and her husband) for making this experience possible.

Integrating the Arts

When it comes to integrating the arts, where better to be than SCAPA. Our fifth graders did an in-depth study of Native American cultures in class. Ms. Stephenson, contemporary dance teacher, and Ms. Rizzo, visual arts teacher, helped them bring this information to life by allowing them to create traditional native masks which they wore while creating and performing dances to traditional native music. What an incredible way to learn!

Blue Ribbon Day During Red Ribbon Week

Everyone at SCAPA Bluegrass was given a blue ribbon on Monday, October 25th and asked to write a slogan about living a healthy, drug-free life. These ribbons were worn all day and then taken up at the end of the days to be displayed for everyone to see all week. Our students put some real thought into coming up with their slogans. Ask your student what their slogan was and what being drug-free means to them.

SCAPA 5th Graders Are Treated to Historic Visit

Viking Erik the Red sailed into SCAPA on Oct. 11th to discuss his exploits, his son, Leif Eriksson (Erik’s son – get it?), and to model the criterion that the 5th graders will use when researching their own explorer. Real Norwegian was spoken, a horned helmet was worn, and reports of a knarr seen rowing down Lafayette Parkway were made to the police.

Students Dress Up as Favorite Book Characters

The halls of SCAPA Bluegrass were filled with famous literary characters on Friday, October 29th. It is not surprising that this is a favorite annual event at SCAPA and the costumes were truly creative. Thanks to all the parents who helped their students put together some terrific costumes.

Create A Pumpkin Contest

All Bluegrass SCAPA students were invited to create a pumpkin/gourd that represented their favorite book character for an exhibit sponsored by Mrs. Sarantakos in the library. The following students participated and received a $20 gift certificate to SCAPA’s Book Fair which will be held in the spring.

The participants were:

• Leila Abou-Jaoude - Queen of Hearts
  
• Sydney Mullins - Eragon
  
• Emma Mathews - Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland
  
• Monica Schmocker - Ping
  
• Hunter England - Curious George
  
• Jamie Bradley - Charlotte’s Web
  
• Stephanie Stumbur - Horton
  
• Julia Crandall - Witch
  
• Emily Putmann - Augustus Gloop
  
• Jordan Vescio – Mango the cat from Mango shaped space
  
• Ben Tonks - Very Hungry Caterpillar
  
• Rachel Bishop - Hoot

The pumpkins were on display all month in the library. What terrific creations!

Annual Central Kentucky Performing and Visual Arts College Fair

What a terrific night at the 3rd Annual Central Kentucky Performing and Visual Arts College Fair! SCAPA had students audition in every area: voice, instrumental, art portfolios, dance and drama/musical theatre. The college representatives who conducted auditions were most impressed with the level of talent the students demonstrated. Several students were approached afterwards and encouraged to apply to specific programs. We know that at least two students have been offered scholarships. We are extremely proud of how well SCAPA was represented.

This is clearly a valuable experience for our students and we are determined to make it even better next year. If there are college/university programs that you would especially like to see at the PVA College Fair in the future, please send me that information and we will be sure they are added to the invitation list. I want every one of our students to have the opportunity to pursue a career utilizing the talents and skills they have been honing for, in many cases, nine years. Please extend my congratulations and appreciation to your students for their participation.

A special thank you to Mrs. Cathy Rowland for accompanying all the students who auditioned for musical theatre.

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SCAPA in the Community

For SCAPA in the Community

Congratulations to the following SCAPA students for being cast in the Lafayette Drama Department’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie” this January:

Cast

• Albert Peterson – Miles Conger, senior, drama
  
• Rosie Alvarez – Ellie Todd, senior, vocal
  
• Kim MacAfee – Caroline Keegan, freshman, vocal
  
• Mrs. Doris MacAfee – Alaina Broderson, senior, vocal
  
• Randolph MacAfee – Joseph Waterbury-Tieman, 5th grade, visual arts
  
• Mrs. Mae Peterson – Jennifer Rhodenhiser, senior, drama
  
• Conrad Birdie – Colton Ryan, Sophomore, drama
  
• Maude (Sweet Apple Parent, Shriner) – Jacob Yates, senior, strings
  
• Maude’s Dishwasher (Policeman, Sweet Apple Parent, Shriner) – Tomer Eres, junior, vocal
  
• Maude’s First Customer (Lee, Sweet Apple Parent, Shriner) – Forrest Loeffler, junior, drama
  
• Maude’s Second Customer (Doctor, Sweet Apple Parent, Shriner) – Will Whalen, senior, vocal
  
• Mayor’s Wife – Haley Goode, junior, vocal
  

Teen Chorus

• Nancy – Grace Cox, sophomore, drama
  
• Alice – Drew Jennings, freshman, vocal
  
• Margie (Sad Girl) – Sydney Jahnigen, sophomore, vocal
  
• Bunny (Sad Girl, Gloria Rasputin, Dance Captain) – Fiona Mowbray, senior, ballet
  
• Karl – Kenny Demus, senior, drama
  
• Harvey Johnson – Michael Roach, junior, vocal
  
• Penelope – Paige Childers, freshman, drama
  
• Suzie – Victoria Hale, junior, strings
  
• Kevin – Will Swisher, senior, drama
  
• Billy – Michael White, junior, vocal
  
• Bobby – Mead Ryder, sophomore, drama
  
• Ursula Merkel (Drum Majorette) – Natalie Trammell, sophomore, vocal
  
• Hugo Peabody – Jordan Pruitt, senior, drama
  
• Deborah Sue – Virginia Newsome, sophomore, drama
  
• Phyllis – Raven Lockwood, sophomore, vocal
  
• Ed Sullivan Stage Hands – Hayli Hart, sophomore, vocal
  
• Eva Cortes, sophomore, vocal
  
• Traveler (Sweet Apple Parent) – Kathryn Dressman, sophomore, creative writing
  
• Sweet Apple Children – Callie Babcock, 8th grade, drama; Shelby Nance, 8th grade, drama

SCAPA Students Help Lexington Children’s Theatre Bring “The Neverending Story” To The Stage

Join the following SCAPA students for a performance of “The Neverending Story” on the Main Stage at the Lexington Children’s Theatre:

Eva Cortez, Will Swisher, Cameron Taylor, Cody Taylor and Lucy Wills

Performances are Sunday, December 12 at 2pm; Saturday, December 18 at 2pm & 8pm; and Sunday, December 19 at 2pm. This show is appropriate for ages 8 and up. Tickets are $16/adult and $13/student. Call 254-4546

SCAPA Spotlights

This section is reserved for recognizing accomplishments by SCAPA students, parents, faculty and staff. Please send arts accomplishments to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman (carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us). Space limitations will determine how many we can include in any given month.

KMEA HS Teacher of the Year Ryan Marsh was selected by his peers as the KMEA District 7 High School Teacher of the Year. He was noted for his hard work and dedication as an example to all music educators. We are so fortunate to have Mr. Marsh working with our students. This is truly a much-deserved honor. Congratulations Mr. Marsh! SCAPA Senior Wins National Writing Award Ellie Todd, senior vocal major, was one of five students in Kentucky to receive a NCTE Achievement Award in Writing. “The National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to recognize excellence in writing by high school juniors. Students are nominated in their junior year by their teachers. The number of nominees from each school is based on the school’s total enrollment in grades ten through twelve with one nominee per 500 students. The number of winners from each state is determined by doubling the number of the states representatives in Congress. Students demonstrate writing ability based on samples of their best prose or verse and on a set of impromptu topic written during a supervised , seventy- five minute period. Two English teachers evaluate each entry, looking especially for writing that demonstrates effective and imaginative use of language to inform and move an audience. This student has demonstrated not only superior ability but also notable versatility in writing.” Congratulations, Ellie! SCAPA Senior Receives Philanthropy Award The Bluegrass Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals has selected Jacob Yates, senior strings major, to receive the Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy Award on National Philanthropy Day! This award is in recognition of his role as organizer of, as well as performer in, the Concert of Hope that raised money for Haiti. Jacob will be presented with his award during the National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, November 9th in the Hilton Downtown/Lexington. Congratulations and thank you, Jacob, for your impact on the world! 7th Grader Awarded US Achievement Academy Scholarship Stephanie Stumbur, 7th grade visual arts major, was awarded a United States Achievement Academy scholarship grant to assist in her higher educational endeavors. Upon being nominated, Miss Stumbur was required to complete forms regarding her extracurricular activities, achievements and awards. She was also asked to write about her educational goals and future professional plans. While she was not ready to select a career, as of yet, she did say, “I would like to study to be a researcher and hope to make a difference in peoples’ lives.” Stephanie will be presented with $100.00 in February. Congratulations, Stephanie, and the best of luck in your future endeavors. Students of the Month Congratulations to the following students of the month for exhibiting outstanding character values! Be sure to read their individual profiles on the wall in the Bluegrass SCAPA foyer. Grade 4 – Serena Male Grade 5 – Ruby Wiggs Grade 6 – Gavin Burt Grade 7 – Sydney Prince Grade 8 – Isaac Hines-Williams

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Arts News

BG Band

• Band News
  

BG Dance

Bluegrass Vocal

LHS Band

• Lafayette Band News

LHS Vocal

Schmidt Competition and NATS Update

Congratulations to the following students who participated in the Schmidt Youth Vocal Competition as well as NATS in October. All of the students performed beautifully and the competition was stiff. We are very proud of how well our school and their private teachers were represented.

Schmidt Participants:

• Ellie Todd - 2nd Place
  
• Katherin Bennett - Top 9
  
• Andrew Miller - Top 9
  
• Sydney Jahnigen - Master Class Participant & Most Promising Sophomore
  
• Amie Huesman
  
• Alaina Broderson
  
• Andrew Wiemann

NATS Participants:

• Tomer Eres - Finals; 2nd place
  
• Kelli Crawford - Semi-Finals
  
• Tanner Hoertz - Semi-Finals
  
• Colton Ryan - Semi-Finals
  
• Caitlyn Ryan

For additional LHS SCAPA Voice news:

• LHS Vocal Newsletters
  

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Club and Team News

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Alumni News

Alumni! We Want To Know What You Are Doing!

We would like to make plaques to hang outside each of the arts rooms with the names of graduates and what they are doing professionally. Mr. Love has one on the wall just outside his door. Every year he takes his new 4th graders out in the hall, reads the names of past students and what they are doing, and tells the current students that if they dedicate themselves to their work, someday their name will be on the plaque. This is a great motivator! We want every arts teacher to have the opportunity to do the same thing. Please send me your name, year you graduated, major and what you are doing professionally so that we can expand and maintain this tradition. My address is carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us. We are looking forward to hearing from you and celebrating your success.

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Arts Roundtable

The Arts Roundtable is a place where we can share valuable information about the essential role of the arts in our lives and the lives of our children. (Please submit items to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman, carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us, by the 20th of each month.)

Arts Advocacy (as borrowed from the LHS Choir newsletter)

Music is a science
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once with the most exact control of time.

Music is mathematics
It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French, and the notation is certainly not English, but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.

Music is history
Music reflects the environment and time of its creation, often even the country and cultural feeling.

Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

Music is all these things, but most of all music is art
It allows human beings to take all these dry technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion.

This and That

I get lots of stuff forwarded to me via email and usually I just delete it. But these were such fun (and some of them very accurate) I thought I would share them with you. Hope they make you smile - Carolyn

These fit so well they should be in a dictionary.
ADULT:
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
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BEAUTY PARLOR:
A place where women curl up and dye.
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CANNIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.
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COMMITTEE:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
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DUST:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
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EGOTIST:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
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HANDKERCHIEF:
Cold Storage.
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INFLATION:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
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MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.
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RAISIN:
Grape with sunburn.
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SECRET:
Something you tell to one person at a time.
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SKELETON:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
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TOOTHACHE:
The pain that drives you to extraction.
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TOMORROW:
One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.
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YAWN:
An honest opinion openly expressed.
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and MY Favorite!!
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WRINKLES:
Something other people have, similar to my character lines.

Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson is an international leader in the area of creativity and achieving human potential. Below are the links to two speeches he gave for the TED conference four years apart. Do yourself a favor and take the time to listen to this gentleman’s inspiring words:

• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
• http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

I wish we could get him to come to SCAPA! I would be very interested in hearing your reaction to these presentations. Come by and share them with me. Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman

Submit information to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman (carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us)

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Arts Bookbag

The Arts Bookbag is a place where we can recommend books about the arts that we have found to be informative and inspiring. (Please submit titles to Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman, carolyn.tieman@fayette.kyschools.us, by the 20th of each month.)

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Daniel Pink, 2009
• Keepers of the Children. Laura M. Ramirez, 2004
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Twyla Tharp. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius by Michael Michalko
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Daniel H. Pink. (2005, 2006). Riverhead Books, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Ken Robinson. (2009). Viking, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.
• Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative, Ken Robinson, Capstone, 2001
  
• 5 Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Press, 2009
  
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, 2007
  
• Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown & Company, 2008

SCAPA FUNdraising Opportunities

SCAPA F.O.A.S. Amazon Wrapping Fundraiser

Come join us at Amazon to help wrap some holiday gifts. You don’t have to be an expert, or even experienced! A great way to support F.O.A.S. without having to buy or sell!

Amazon provides pre-cut paper, electric tape dispensers, an organized table, and cushy mats to stand on. The shifts are only 4 hours long and the time goes by quickly. Training will be provided.

This is a festive and fun way to help the Friends community stay strong. Amazon will donate 60 cents to $1 per package, depending on time of day (day shifts are more than evening ones) and how close it is to the end of the wrapping season (the amount is greater toward the end). The average wrapped per hour is 22, but it is very possible to wrap 40 – 50 packages/hour, particularly if you have done this before or if you sign up for more than one shift this year.

Please see the attached flyer for information about shift dates and times and let me know as soon as possible if you are able to help SCAPA Friends with this fundraiser. Signups for shifts will start next week (week of Sept 20th) and there are many groups competing for wrapping spots, so we will have the best chance of getting our preferred shifts if we sign up early.

Thanks, Mary Kay Rayens (mkrayens@uky.edu or 859-312-7225)

Box Tops For Education

General Mills Corporation, sponsor of the Box Tops For Education program, has been involved in giving to educational programs since 1996. Over the past 13 years, participating schools have earned over $300 million dollars in funding. The Box Tops program is a simple way for our school to receive money without having to write grants, sell products, work hours, or buy things we don’t want or need. As a parent, relative, or friend of SCAPA, all you have to do is clip the “Official Box Top Coupon” off of the products you already buy and use. A complete list of these products can be found at boxtops4education.com. After clipping, send the box tops to school with your student. Each homeroom teacher has a container in their classroom for collection. Each month, the box tops are collected and counted, with the top collecting homeroom earning a prize. Come on SCAPA Penguins, keep clipping and collecting those box tops. Let’s make this an awesome box tops year.

Volunteer Opportunities

Please download a copy for each of the FCPS approved volunteers in your family. Completed forms may be turned in to Ms. Barbara Talbert at the front office of Bluegrass SCAPA. Thank you so much for your commitment to making SCAPA great!

• Bluegrass Volunteer Form
• LHS Volunteer Form

Please be aware that a records check is required in order to participate in volunteer activities in the Fayette County School system.

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FOAS Board Officers and Representatives

• Officers and Representatives

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