CAM/ Moore Square Project

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Video From Moore Square Park!

Video By Thomas G. (2010 CAM Student Assistant)

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Raleigh Urban Design Center Visit

Photos by Thomas G (CAM Student Assistant)

Trisha Hasch (planner for the City of Raleigh) told us about the winning design for Moore Square Park. She also took time to hear what our students suggestions were for park improvements.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Many, many thanks to the amazing NC Symphony musicians that visited our program. Christopher Caudill and Rachel Niketopoulos (french horn musicians) and Karen Galvin (Assistant Concertmaster, violin). The photos above were made by Abigail and Amanda during the program session.

The NC Symphony!!!!

Rachel Niketopoulos & Christopher Caudill, french horn musicians
video by student participant, Morgan H.

Friday, April 9, 2010

A Few Words From Our Students

"Today we colored pictures and put them on canvases!"
-Daniela

"Today we talked about cultural sightings that we saw after school. We saw: children playing in sand boxes, a flyer for musicSPARK (part of SPARK CON), people walking, the bus station at Moore Square. We also learned what a gesture drawing was. We met a couple of musicians from the NC Symphony and we listened to them perform. Some students videotaped the performance and some people were taking photos."
-Sarah

Thursday, April 8, 2010

First Art Project

Believe it, or not... TJ was actually having "fun".

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

From Student Blogger Abigail

Today was our first day of CAM.
What we did was talk about Raleigh's past and colored old photos and wrote a 1-2 sentence letter to someone you know based on the photo. I think this will be a great class.

What is culture?

We spent quite a bit of time during our first program session discussing what was/is culture. We discovered that culture is really an integral part of our everyday lives. Culture is reflected in the food that we eat, the clothes that we wear, the things that we do for fun as well as the artistic traditions and trends of anywhere people live, work and play.

We made lists of the kinds of art, food, activities and classes that our participants like.

Art:
drama, drawing, dance, photography, installation, sculpture, singing, painting, music

Food:
cheese, macaroni and cheese, chocolate cake, chinese food, greek food, caesar salad, caprice salad, shrimp, yellow cake, spaghetti, sushi, pickles, pizza, lasagna

Activities:
taekwondo, shopping, walking, sports, being outside, shootin' hoops, playing with pets, taking photos, playing the piano, watching tv (specifically animation), cooking, painting

Favorite Classes:
art, social studies, spanish, language arts, gym, science, history, reading, math, auto shop

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

New Recruits!!!!!

We are super excited to get to know our 2010 program participants this afternoon! Our theme for this year is Raleigh's culture and entertainment. We have already lined up visits with musicians from the NC Symphony and NC Opera as well as our good buddies over at the Raleigh Urban Design Center.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Urban Design Center Visit

On February 10th our after school program visited the Raleigh Urban Design Center. UDC staff presented information on some of the current development projects happening in downtown Raleigh.

We talked a lot about what a makes a building "green".
Using renewable resources as construction materials
Using geothermal, hydroelectric, methane and other energy sources

Hey do you know what LEED stands for?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

*Post by Thomas

As promised- here are the students photos of water themed images in downtown Raleigh!

By Thomas(above)

By Sloane(above)

By Sam(above)

By Rebecca(above)

By Noura(above)

By Nik(above)

By Lydia(above)

By Kyle(above)

By Jordan(above)

By Jessica(above)

By Hannah(above)

By Gabi(above)

By Erin(above)

By Emma(above)

By Danielle(above)

By Collin(above)

By Chesson(above)

By Brantley(above)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Watch out!

We have unleashed the Moore Square Middle School madness to the streets of downtown Raleigh! We will post some our student photos early next week...

Thursday January 29th

Today we started our marble tile transfers and learned more about global water use. Do you know how much drinkable water we actually have on this planet? Not much. Our photo blogger Jessica took the photos below...

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tuesday January 27th!

"Today Ms. Ladye Jane (from the Raleigh City Museum) came and talked to us about Raleigh water. We made two postcards, one about historic Raleigh in general, another about Raleigh water." - Hannah, student participant (pictured above)

Photos above by Noura!

Friday, January 23, 2009

Day 1!

We had our first session of the CAM after school program on Thursday January 22nd. All 18 kids were present! It was great to finally meet all the kids and get started on this exciting program. We were supposed to start our program on Tuesday, but it snowed!

We will be posting to this blog after each after school session. AND our participating students will be sharing their thoughts and photos to post here as well. Unfortunately we did not give our first student blogger very much time to write so I will be adding her post next week.

Our blog photographer for the day, Emma, took these photos of the students working on their historical Raleigh postcards...