Blacksmithing Shop Demonstration

Did you know Pecatonica High School is one of only 5 high schools in the United States (and the ONLY one in the Midwest) that offers artistic black smithing to our students?  Thanks to Mr. D for showing our 4th grade students this amazing sculpture art form!  (Miss Klewin's class will go in a couple weeks.)

Have you seen our Kindness Wreaths around school?

For the third year, I have incorporated my favorite positive behavior management system into the Dragonfly Studio.  We call it "Our Kindness Wreath."

Our 2015-16 beginning wreath.

When students are caught doing acts of kindness for each other or the well being of studio, they might be invited to add a ribbon to the wreath.  The ribbons are kept in a box behind the purple hand chair.

Our first wreath from 2013-14 resides in Mrs. Brockway's office.  

See if you can find our wreath from last year!  Hint, keep your eyes to the sky!

Peace Day & Unity Day Fun!

We started out the week by celebrating the International Day of Peace by planting pinwheels for "whirled" peace on the front lawn of the school!

Today we had "the best day ever" by celebrating Unity Day!  A huge shout out to Miss Hoffman for making Unity Day an amazing success!

Blue Ribbon Award

Did you hear?  PES was one of sixteen schools in Illinois to win the Blue Ribbon award for 2015!  We had a big dance party assembly to celebrate!