Dancing and Dining to the music of THE GREEN Beans

The Green Beans Visit Saint Albans City School!

The school cafeteria was a lively place this Wednesday, as St. Albans City School students listened to the original folk music of the Green Beans during their lunch period.  Students welcomed the group by wearing green and moved to the beat with some dancing feet throughout the lunch periods. The Green Beans were the perfect accompaniment to the school’s fruits and vegetable grant and yearlong focus on healthy eating

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Vinny and Joe Ferris played their music and students listened, danced and questioned the musicians about their musical career.  They left impressed with our students and our students were pleased and were equally impressed with their music.  Please check out Sacs News on the St. Albans City School website for a  short clip of their performance.

7/8 Spellers Win Bee and Advance to Regional Competition

On Wednesday, October 20th, the 2010 St. Albans City School 7th/8th Spelling Bee Team participated in the District Spelling Bee Competition, hosted by St. Albans Town Educational Center. It was a very tight match against teams from Fairfield Center School and Town. After Round 2, all three teams were tied with 18 points. After Round 4, all three teams were tied with 28 points! But our SACS spellers gained the lead after Round 5 and maintained that lead, achieving a final score of 58 points (and winning by only six points!) after 8 rounds of spelling.

The 2010 St. Albans City School 7th/8th Spelling Bee Team includes Derek Dodge (7th) and Travis Love (7th) representing the Renaissance Learning Community, Jana Somero (8th) and Arnela Grujic (8th) representing the Dynamic Design Learning Community, and siblings Veronica Farr (7th) and Zachary Farr (8th) representing Team USA Learning Community. Prior to competition, the team practiced daily with their advisers, Mrs. Draper and Ms. Maguire, reading and orally spelling their words and taking part in word studies (such as word parts, prefixes and suffixes, and language origins).

The team celebrated with pizza at Mimmo’s Restaurant following the match (after all, they were spelling through their lunch time!). Special congratulations to Zachary Farr, who was the only student in the competition to spell all of his words correctly, including not-previously-studied bonus round words.

This team will travel to Vergennes Middle/High School for the Regional Competition against five other schools on Saturday, November 6th at 10:00am. The winner of the Regional Competition will compete for the State Title.

The team continues to practice and meet daily to prepare. Good luck, Spellers!