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22 | March 22, 2018 | The winnetka Current school
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Winnetka boy wins gold medal
in recent Chicago piano festival
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PIANO STUDIO
Chris Xu, a sixth-grader
at Winnetka’s Skokie
School, recently won the
gold medal at 2018 Piano
Sonata-Sonatina Festival,
held Feb. 4 at Columbia
College Chicago. More
than 330 students participated
in this year’s
competition, which was
organized by the Chicago
Area Music Teachers Association.
Xu has been a prize
winner in several competitions
throughout the
Chicago area, and he is
preparing for his Level
8 Achievement in Music
exam this year. He is
a student of Dr. Vivian
Zhao, who has won several
international piano
competitions.
Carleton Washburne fundraises for Puerto
Rico hurricane relief at McDonald’s
SUBMITTED BY MCDONALD’S
FRANCHISE OWNERS
Winnetka resident Chris Xu won first place in a Chicago
piano competition this February. photo submitted
Greeley third-graders take on
Constitution with New Trier juniors
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HIGH SCHOOL
Over the past few
weeks, New Trier High
School’s Integrated Global
Studies School students
teamed up with a thirdgrade
class from Winnetka’s
Greeley School to
learn about the U.S. Constitution
together.
“The project began as a
way to make the required
Constitution unit more engaging
for our students, especially
as we talked about
what it means to actually
deeply learn something
versus learning something
for a test,” said Lindsay
Arado, an IGSS teacher at
New Trier. “Our hope was
that having our students
learn the concepts and
be able to teach them to
third-graders would help
solidify their learning and
understanding.”
Junior IGSS students began
visiting Greeley Elementary
on Feb. 26, where
they introduced themselves
and broke up into
small groups with Stephanie
Conran’s third-grade
Greeley third-grade students recently teamed up with
Integrated Global Studies School students from New
Trier to learn about the Constitution through various
partner activities, including making music videos.
PHOTO SUBMITTED
class. Each group focused
on a different facet of the
U.S. Constitution, and
throughout multiple visits,
the groups wrote songs
and created music videos
about their respective topics,
such as branches of the
government, voting and
the powers of Congress.
Senior IGSS students
made props, filmed and
edited the music videos,
which included “Powers
of the President” sung to
the tune of “Shake It Off”
by Taylor Swift, and “The
Bill of Rights,” sung to the
tune of “Y.M.C.A.” by the
Village People.
On March 9, IGSS hosted
a premiere event in their
classroom, where they
greeted their third-grade
friends with a red carpet,
treats and a swarm of paparazzi
at the entrance.
The students then spent
the afternoon watching the
music videos they made
and reminiscing on their
past few weeks together.
Carleton Washburne
School held its first Mc-
Teacher’s Night March
13 at the Winnetka Mc-
Donald’s, 858 Green Bay
Road, raising $1,500 for
hurricane relief efforts in
Puerto Rico.
McTeacher’s Nights are
organized to help raise
money for schools or a
charity by having teachers
work at McDonald’s and
then giving a percentage of
sales back to the school or
charity. The restaurant was
taken over by 24 Washburne
teachers and staff
serving freshly prepared
Faculty from Carleton Washburne school gathered at
the Winnetka McDonalds March 13 for a McTeacher’s
Night fundraiser to raise money for hurricane relief
efforts in Puerto Rico. PHOTO SUBMITTED
meals to locals.
Assistant Principal Tony
Venetico dressed up in a
McDonald’s pie costume,
mingling and taking photos
with families.
The McTeacher’s Night
was courtesy of the Winnetka
McDonald’s Owner/
Operator, Chris Prucnal.
Day at
the races
Hubbard Woods Cub
Scouts face off in
Pinewood Derby
Hubbard Woods Cub Scouts
(left to right) Jaxon Yamada, Will
Jacobsen, Jack Weidaw and
Kieran Dahl watch cars race at
the annual Pinewood Derby on
March 4. PHOTO SUBMITTED