Special Area Newsletter
February 2024
Music with Ms. Peters
During the month of February our K-3 students will continue their adventures to catch our Rest Villain by creating, performing, and responding to a variety of musical elements and exploring music from around the world and adventures with music and literacy.
4th and 5th grade students will be engaged in Makey Makey Music activities and playing steel pans and other instruments from around the world.
Calendar of Events:
February 8 KMEA Kentucky Children’s Chorus concert (Congratulations to Avery Lucas for being selected!)
February 9 KMEA All State Elementary School Modern Band Concert (Congratulations to Bentley Yinger)
February 11 VPE/UK Winterguard Community Show
February 16 - Mad Cap Puppets visit VPE Wizard of Oz
February 24 - VPE Winterguard Competition at Martha Layne Collins High School TBA
February 29 -UK Steel Drum Ensemble visits VPE
March 7 - Literacy Night: Lower Primary Chorus(K/1) and Winterguard performances 5:30 p.m.
March 14 - McTeggart Dancers visit VPE and 1:00 is The Little Mermaid Jr School Show and 6:00 Community Show
March 27 - FCPS Honors Chorus at Singletary Center 7:00 p.m. is the concert
March 30 - VPE Winterguard perform at TMA Championships at the Truist Center (NKU) TBA
April 18 - Arts Night - Upper Primary Chorus and Percussion perform School show at 1:00 and community at 5:30-7
May 10 - Wulfe Sisters Assembly
Library with Ms. Ault
In February, students will be exploring books regarding Black History month. Intermediate students will be reading biographies and filming segments for the morning show to highlight important figures in African American history. Of course, February also mean Valentines Day so we will be reading books all about love and kindness.
P.E. with Mr. Penrod
Hey VPE Families, I hope everyone had a great January! As we head into February we will be working on cooperative skills and being a good teammate in our activities. Students will be working on their Gaga ball skills and learning the rules. This lesson was unfortunately delayed with the week of NTI in January. Students will be working on some track and field skills, as well as talking about the Olympics and the different games that take place.
STEM with Ms. Sproles
It was a very exciting month for STEM! Thank you to all the families who came out and enjoyed STEM Night. We had a great turn out and many families expressed how much fun they had engineering together. Our Michael Stewart STEMazing Day also happened this month and all grade levels enjoyed an assembly hosted by the KY Reptile Zoo. Lots of exciting reptiles visited our building. 1st-4th graders also got to enjoy the Sphero Indi Playground with one of our district STEM coaches. We will continue navigating through our science content as we enter February.
Art with Ms. Masterson
Happy February from the art room! Students will continue to work through their Chinese art lessons along with clay projects for kindergarten through 2nd grade. We will also begin some happy heart lessons in a variety of media studying the work of Jim Dine and Peter Max. Paper quill, winter wonderland, and pop art plaster projects are coming up next.
Culture with Ms. Jackson
Hello everyone and welcome to Culture! I am very excited to explore different countries with your children. In the month of February, we will begin looking at what different families look like and what they do together as a family. The children will be able to draw and label who is all in their family. They will then compare it to the different students in their class. After comparing their families with each other, the students will explore 2 countries (Mexico, China) picking a family in a certain region of the country to explore and learn what their family looks like and what they do.