Yearly Archives: 2015

Each year Macon East lower school students present a Christmas program for their parents, grandparents, and other guests. Music instructor, Michelle Lott accompanied the students in a performance of secular and sacred Christmas favorites. The theme was Follow the Star, directing us to focus our attention on the Star that lead the shepherds and wise men of old to the true reason for Christmas – the baby Jesus. All students in grades K3 through 6th participated in the performance. Songs included Away in a Manger, Silent Night, A Little Child Will Come To Lead Us, Follow the Star, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Joy to the World. Following the play, each class celebrated the upcoming holiday with a Christmas party.

Three Macon East art students were selected for the recent Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ARTWORKS corridor. This quarter’s corridor theme Transformations: Tools and Art featured contemporary art celebrating the omnipresence of tools in our lives. The committee of museum curators, educators, and local artists received 200 entries from 19 area schools and selected 56 works for the exhibit. Samantha Pittenger’s painting, Everything Is An Instrument, displays a small bird made up of tiny tools. Hannah Johnsons’ mixed media, In Bloom, boasts a clever combination of watercolor flowers with inked tools, and Savannah Clemen’s photograph, Earth Cut, shows how an everyday saw can be created using sticks, leaves and rocks. The exhibition runs until January 3 in the ARTWORKS corridor at MMFA.

Macon East lower school students participated in Dixie Electric and the 12’s Day of Giving annual food drive. The students collected canned goods and other non-perishable food items throughout the month of November in an Auburn vs. Alabama challenge. Macon East students proudly delivered over 1,000 items on Friday, December 4! WSFA 12 in partnership with Cumulus Media and Dixie Electric Cooperative sponsor the annual 12’s Day of Giving event. This year more than $33,000 was donated along with 9,099 pounds of food, 2,993 toys, and 78 bicycles. All donations benefit Toys for Tots, Christmas Clearinghouse and the Montgomery Area Food Bank.

The 5th and 6th grade students traveled to Huntsville on December 11 to participate in the Astrotrek Ultimate Experience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. The group was busy from the very moment they got off the school bus. First, they went to ride the two outdoor simulators- the Space Shot and the G Force. Both of these allow you to feel what happens in a no gravity atmosphere. They got to see a hands on presentation about the Space Station and climb the Mars Wall. Students visited a new exhibit called Science Fiction, then went to the Imax theatre and watched a great movie about the possibility of visiting Mars. In the new Davidson building, where the building is literally built around a Saturn 5 rocket, the group learned about the history of rocketry. A highlight of the trip was building parachutes in the science lab and applying the concepts of force and drag learned in the classroom.

Camelot Club Humility in partnership with the American Red Cross hosted a blood drive on campus Friday, November 13.  Students, parents, and teachers donated a total of 40 pints.  Club sponsor, Jennifer Harris was pleased with the student participation and the hard work her club put into the event. The Red Cross coordinator and nurses were all very complimentary of our students cooperation and willingness to give the gift of life.