ART
It has been a wonderful experience getting to know each of The Summit students; especially through our first art project where each grade created their own portfolio to keep their artwork collections.
K-4 has completed a Circle Family Project using symbolism and shapes. Grades 5-8 took the same concepts of symbolism to illustrate their names after researching the origin and meaning.
We will continue to develop talents during the First Trimester with inspirations stemming from artistic genres of lines and textures while learning the differences between positive and negative space in our creations. A variety of styles and materials will be used for projects.
Older students will also delve into types of abstract art in collage form and try their hand at still life drawing in preparation of projects to be auctioned off at our annual Summit Gala on Saturday, November 15.
Compositions will include measures of oil pastels, acrylics, and mosaics.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Summit students at all grade levels have turned into quite the “Kings and Queens of Dribblers” as we explore soccer (not basketball!) as our first sport of physical education.
We’ve spent our first few weeks learning some of the basic skills including how to dribble with either foot – both inside and out, as well as trapping and passing drills. K-4 has also focused on components for throwing the ball in-bounds from the sideline.
Now that students have also become familiar with the rules and regulations of soccer, as well as the sport’s history, we’re forming teams for actual play that allows everyone to get in the game!
And as part of our daily warm-up drills and exercises, we’re also preparing for a Fall Fitness Testing based on National standards.
Just For Kicks…
Did you know that soccer is the world’s most popular sport for fans and spectators, but still ranks below football, basketball, baseball in the United States? However, as the above link details, soccer is the #1 participant sport for America’s youth – just as throughout Latin America!
In the Spanish-speaking world, soccer is called fútbol. (American football doesn’t exist!) Adults and children of all ages can be found playing on cobblestoned streets, dusty fields, 
Historic plazas and about anywhere there’s enough space to start "a game" – un partido.
As long as there is light to see, someone is always outside playing.
Most Latino children dream of becoming a soccer superstar and can’t even imagine what it would be like to have their own ball.
If you did not have television, video game systems and other forms of indoor entertainment, how much soccer and different types of outdoor sports, games and activities would you play?
