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Show THE PARK RECORD www.parkrecord.com , SATSUNMONATUES, FEBRUARY 8-11, 2003 A-9 ucatioa EDUCATION EDITOR: Sarah Wilcox 649-9014 ext.118 educatlonparkrecord.com Project teaches kids about Olympics, teamwork Ed. Briefs In U . International School orientation There are several planned meetings for' International School orientation during the 2003-2004 school year. The meetings will outline the entrance process for next year. Parents and students stu-dents must attend pne of these meetings meet-ings if they, are interested in enrolling in the IB program at TMMS. The following is a schedule of the meetings, which will all take place at 6:30 p.m. and in the media center of each respective school: Tuesday, Feb. 11 at Trailside Elementary; Wednesday, Feb. 12 at McPolin Elementary; Thursday, Feb. 13 at Parley's . Park Elementary; Monday, Feb. 24 at Ecker Hill Middle School: Tuesday, Feb. 25 at Jeremy Ranch ' Elementary; and Wednesday, Feb. 26 at Treasure Mountain. ADHD support group Pediatrician and acupuncturist Scott Zuckerman will present an alternative treatment option for children with ADDADHD at the ;. parent-support group's monthly meeting , next Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. at Ecker Hill Middle School. Contact Terri Bowers at 649-8347 or , at terribvmh.com for more information. . Park City champs Congratulations to the following Park City students who participated in the Reader's Digest Word ; Power Challenge earlier this month: Allie Zangelson, fourth grade, and Carlssa Dahl, fifth grade of Jeremy Ranch Elementary; Tyler Mackaben, fifth grade, of McPolin Elementary; Hannah Kahn, fourth grade, and Tori Gagnon, fifth grade, of Parley's Park Elementary , School; , Rachel Bollwlnkel, fourth grade, and Meredythe Coleman,' fifth grade, of Trailside Elementary. Students research effects of Winter Games, will present work in a website By SARAH WILCOX Of the Record staff Not only do these fifth-graders know how to work together, they know how to share. As students of an Olympic host city, Kim Sobel's fifth-grade class at McPolin Elementary and Michelle Hoffmann's class at Trailside Elementary are teaming up to pass on their Winter Games knowledge to the children of Turin, Italy, whose city will host the next Olympics in 2006. The two fifth-grade classes are proving their group work skills and "show and tell" mentality while they collaborate on the International CyberFair School Project, a collaborative learning activity that stresses diversity and the use of technology. The kids, divided up into five groups within their classrooms, are pooling their skills to develop a presentation on what Park City learned from hosting the 2002 Olympics, in subjects ranging from athletics to pin trading to personal views. . They will pass on the wisdom of their first-hand experience and their post-Olympic post-Olympic research, carefully gathered from Internet searches and interviews, tOthe children chil-dren of Turin, Italy via a Website. The website is open to all, but according to Hoffman, the Park City students' primary audience is the kids of Turin. The knowledge they will pass on is characterized char-acterized by excitement. The message, which will be entered into Please see Cyberf air, A-10 rr It i ' 1 1 i ,1 i - r v ' ' " ' PHOTO COURTESY OF GREG EISENBARTH (L to R) Fifth-grade students Brynn Saetrum, Casey Elliott, and Chris Barry proudly display 2002 Olympian and Parkite Joe Pack's silver medal. The kids have been working on a presentation on what Park City learned from hosting the Olympics and will present their research in a website competition. The kids have interviewed city officials, offi-cials, athletes, and businesses. They have also visited event venues, like the Utah Olympic Park . Schools open doors to show off Olympic memorabilia By SARAH WILCOX Of the Record staff On the one-year anniversary of Park City playing host to the 2002 Winter Olympics, that "fire within," sparked by the 17 days of festivities, is still burning strong, Park City kids and educators say. They invited the Park City community to share in that lingering spirit by attending attend-ing an open house celebrating their Olympic Projects on Friday at each of the eight Park City School District schools. The projects at the elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools were made possible by the Olympic Legacy Fund, which came from the district's renting of facilities to the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. The diverse projects reflect the student's stu-dent's perceptions of the Winter Games, guided by artists or parent volunteers, and flavored with the undeniable pride of having participated in a world-class event. The displays at each school are as varied var-ied as the students housed in each building. Ranging from tile projects to murals to stained glass panels, the schools all took markedly-different approaches to documenting docu-menting their involvement with and perceptions per-ceptions of the historic event. Judy Tukuafu, director of community education at PCSD, said the project was a unique one because it included such a wide-range of students of different ages, reflecting the perspectives of the older and younger students. Tukuafu said the district decided the hold the open house this weekend because it is "good timing." "We're doing it because there are celebrations cel-ebrations and we feel we want to celebrate, cele-brate, too, "We're really excited to participate on this anniversary," she said. Michelle Wallace, principal at Jeremy Ranch Elementary School, said their Olympic project, an accent tile piece was not only an artistic endeavor, but was an exercise in team-building and unity. The teachers were able to integrate the project into the social studies core Please see Schools, A-1 0 Welcome to. Deer "Premiere yaMm WW f n n a Ttzzr-r "' sr - r- " Tap ffm : (Jim (Rartfi fMaiw ffol twm Hfanhn thtitom Xindi 'Mflfaynokk Vrapkin, IViltiam TNmtead Six top-producing, long-e$tablUfed, mell-mpeeted, award-winning, extremely knowledgeable actim in tfie community, pretty darn nice 1$$altor& invite y on to find out wfiatk nm m 'Deer Valley and Varh City real estate. IVtf aw heated in tfie Heart oftfie activity at Silver lake 'Plaza in 'Upper 'Deer Valley 435 615-7110 n33nT! EXCLUSIVE AFFILIATE OF V , . v REAL ESTATE Tark City, Utah 84060 INTERNATIONAL REALTY it ii (Uftfl uvi 0 '- 'I ! 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