YESS T-Shirt Contest

A design from 5th hour.

A cool "pocket" design from 6th hour.

This past week was another art-filled one for us as our scholars worked to design a winning YESS t-shirt! Every year we hold a competition to see who can come up with the most innovative, fun, meaningful design for a Shaw Heights Middle School YESS t-shirt. Everyone had a great time working up new designs. Several decided to go with the "04" theme to represent the 4th year of YESS at Shaw Heights. Many drew or added the school falcon to their t-shirt, and we had a couple of artists who managed to free-draw the YESS logo. Next week we will vote for the top design in each class, and then we will select a winner from those top five.

Another great design from 6th hour!

Dressed up on Halloween with Symone and Ivan.

Sadly, I was quite sick last week so I missed the end of the week with our scholars but I am proud of their efforts to complete their t-shirts. We all had fun on Halloween as this was the first time in a long time that Shaw allowed students to dress up. I was the "ring leader" and am pictured here with two of my "clowns" and our penguin, Ernesto. We  had a lot of laughs, to say the least!


Next week we will select our t-shirt contest winner and we will begin working on our new unit--the brain. Have a great week!