Chairperson-Kendra Martellaro
Contact:pta@aacademy.org
· Assemblies. When volunteering at the school during the day, night or weekend, the school guidelines apply. No children.
Duties-Plan assemblies for the entire school. The assemblies are usually elementary or middle school. You also need to be at the school the days of assemblies.
You also need to get approval of the assemblies from the principal and contact the facilities manager with dates of the assemblies.
You also need to have 2 or 3 extra volunteers that day to help move furniture and set up.
Pending Assemblies-details, dates, locations subject to change:
December 3, 2007, 8:00 am, The Good, Bad, and the Ucky-presented by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grades 6-8
Kaisier Permanente-December 18th or 12th, 3rd graders, perhaps 2nd depending on number of children. Interactive format assembly on health, taking personal responsibility for choices.
May 22/23-The NO DEMERIT assembly. Lots of exciting plans for this that we will just keep under wraps for now.
Nov 27th, a.m., Imagination Makers is back! Primary grades.
On November 27th, our students had the opportunity to see a play by the
Imagination Makers Theater Company. The performance at our school was made possible by a grant from the Arapahoe County Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and funding from the Aurora Academy Charter PTA.
The play, "Dreams" presented a world in which kids imagined pet tigers and vending machines that dispense food for the homeless. This dynamic production dramatized the stories of kids' dreams for themselves, their families and friends, and the world. These sometimes moving, sometimes funny, stories were written by kids ages 6-12 living in Colorado, but from various countries including Chile, Tanzania, Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, Kuwait, India, Japan, and Brazil. There were also stories from kids who are homeless and one from a wheelchair-bound girl. Three actors and a live musician presented all the writing in a way that was sensitive and fun, from the invention of a chemical that brings rain forest trees back to life to a silly poem about having the power to turn everything into chocolate. This play empowered kids as writers and as dreamers!
Imagination Makers is a professional theater company that has been performing for children throughout the Denver metro area for the past 27 years. The next performance is scheduled for February 2008.
Feb 19th, p.m., a different Imagination Makers assembly. Primary grades.
Career Day Assembly-7th and 8th graders-probably April.
The other assemblies that are being pursued are writer workshops, author/illustrator assemblies/story time. If you know of a fantastic assembly that is affordable, e-mail pta.