On Saturday, March 27 Oldenburg Academy drama department hosted alum Sophie Wesseler for a choreography session. Wesseler has over 12 years of dancing and choreography experience. During her time at OA she appeared in many staged shows and helped with choreography. Now as an undergraduate student at Bellarmine she is studying communication with a focus in digital media. Miss Wesseler helped prepare students for the spring variety show. The variety show will be April 16 & 17 i

St. Louis teacher Christy Pedersen shares a recent AIE experience: " Even though we can not have a full musical, we are trying to get our normal experiences in. Lizzy choreographed three dances for each class - a grade level full length song, a finale, and bows. The finale and bows were videoed so we could learn them at our leisure - snow made scheduling difficult, so this allowed us flexibility (and we could also include students who were quarantined). Lizzy then came in t

Three performing artists from joined each class virtually for 45 minute workshops during the 5 day week. Each grade level had a different theme/unit of focus for the week. Students in third and fourth grade centered their workshops on novels that were previously read in class. In third grade students brought to life the BFG by Roald Dahl and in fourth grade the students worked on Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Instead of working on performances from novels, the fift

On Thursday, March 25, Oldenburg Academy hosted astronomer Dean Regas from the Cincinnati Observatory for a talk which focused about what we have learned about stars, planets, and space. Dean Regas started his talk about talking about all of the opportunities available to scientists and previewing his work, which includes television, podcasts, and work at the Cincinnati Observatory. Dean showed students a free, online software program (Mitaka) for independent space study, and

Artwork by students of the Batesville Community School Corporation were installed on Main Street in Batesville through the collaborative effort of the Batesville Community Education Foundation and two of its corporate sponsors. BCEF board member Jama Linkel-Cleghorn is the project coordinator. Dubbed “Art on Main,” the new program featured artwork from students from all four BCSC schools over the course of a year. Art teachers had the latitude to determine whether the art pro

The Batesville Singers show choir and back up band recently had the opportunity to collaborate with pianist, Stephanie Pestana. Stephanie teaches piano at Miss Shannon’s Music Studio and is a very skilled performer. In addition to attending several dress rehearsals with the students, she also performed with them for the annual Dinner Show, played in a video recording for the virtual competition we performed in, and performed at the South Dearborn Opening Knight Showcase with

BMS Students are learning about Ancient Greece culture and historical events. All 6 th grade students participated in our Ancient Greek Olympic games during social studies class. The murals were hung in the 6 th grade hallway to help students visual the unique characteristics of Ancient Greek art and architecture. The student’s reaction to the murals was inspiring and only positive responses were given. Students were assigned a Greek city-state and competed in different Olymp

In conjunction with their interdisciplinary unit on the Industrial Revolution, all 10th grade students received a demonstration of how the steam engine works, courtesy of Shrank Farms. The Shranks explained how they modified the engine into an ice cream machine, and then the sophomores watched how the engine made ice cream. All students across the school were able to watch the ice cream be made and have a sample.

Mr. Diehl came to Oldenburg Academy to help the students learn the art of improvisation. The orchestra and instrumental students (25 students) had been prepared for the workshop by learning the Bb Blues Scale and learning jazz rhythms. Mr. Diehl took these ideas further by incorporating these ideas into improvised solos and riffs in many different jazz styles. Jan Diehl is a retired music and jazz educator. He is a graduate of the College Conservatory of Music /University of

Ion Jones presented students with a chemistry-based art experience. Students learned about ultraviolet light and how to pull apart colors. Students learned how inventions changed our ability to make materials, such as teslin paper for maps and drawing. Students used black lights to see the difference in colors once exposed to the light. Students also learned the science behind mood rings, and how they really just are chemicals that react with heat to make color, and the cryst