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in big at Ul mathcoiMMMGrant Wood Elementary School students Peter Greubel and Essence Henderson wear “Horton Ears” during Read Across America Day on March 3. The day included readings of “Horton Hatches theEgg.”and Target rounds.Grant Wood celebrates Read Across America DayCEDAR RAPIDS — Grant Wood Elementary Schoolobserved Read Across America Day on March 3. Teachers received “Horton Ears” to wear while reading “Horton Hatches the Egg” to students.Each student and staff member also received a Dr. Seuss sticker to wear for the day.tral, Northwest and South East junior high schools in the Iowa City district and at West Branch Middle School created compositions with Hyperscore software developed by Tod Machover, director of the MIT Media Lab. Their teachers were Cece Roudabush and Terri Finger in Iowa City and Jim Calkins and Chris Reed in West Branch.Student composers included: Kaitlyn Coffin (Southeast): , “Flight of. the Tropical Seabird”; Kinsey Koch (Northwest): “Untitled”; Shannon Laing (West Branch): “Lines of Horror”; Sam Mc-Cleran (North Central): “Let Off Some Steam”; and Kayla Wright (North Central): “The Wonderful I Don’t Know.”Nominate an Iowan for Character AwardCHARACTER COUNTS!in Iowa invites you to celebrate Iowans’ good character through the Iowa Character Awards program.Middle school students compose for Ying QuartetIOWA CITY — Students from four area middle schools used musical software to compose music for the Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet. The quartet performed a selection of the compositions during a school matinee in March at the University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium.Students from North Cen-rM‘
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Wed, May 07, 2008
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