ATTENTION PARENTS Calendar of Events

High School Exhibitions

January 2009
MASC / HILI 5-8 January 20th
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MASC / HILI 1-4 January 27th
January 2nd Home School Day # 6 SACS CASI Accreditation & NIPSA Accreditation

January 5th Return To School

Elementary and Middle School Exhibitions
January 26th Middle School Exhibitions
January 26th
January 16th End of 2nd Term
Once again our students rise to the top! Every time they take the stage we realize how truly
Student Led Conference January 19th Home School Day # 7
amazing they are. Thank you parents for your continued support and we look forward to seeing
January 29th January 20th - 27th High School you at the Middle School Production on February 12th, the Elementary Musical in March and the
Exhibitions Spring Musical in May. For more information on these programs please visit our website
(www.foundationacademy.com) or call the school office at 904-241-3515.
January 22nd Grades Due Why Change?
Art Exhibition
January 29th 2nd Student Led Conference
January 20th 2009 This is our school’s
January 30th Yearbook Pages Due essential question this
year.
The class is studying the history of pottery and ceramics. Each artist has chosen a time
period and an art form from that time. We will be creating replicas and inspired pieces A new year reminds us
to create a ceramic time line of pottery through the ages. showing CHANGE through that change can happen.
time in art. We then will create a installation in the "Art hallway" representing Modern
February 2009 It is a difficult task to
Art of Today. change.
emele February 12th - 13th Middle School
Is there anything you feel
Production you should change?
What will you gain?
Digital Illusion February 16th Home School Day # 8
What will you lose?
Digital Imaging---it's everywhere! Images from cameras, phones, computers, U-Tube, websites & February 17th - 20th Senior Projects How can you change?
tv surround us. At TFA we Presented
I struggle always with
have a class that specializes in these questions.
using our creative talents to
capture interesting images with I usually try the typical
cameras, as well as learning to things. Personal effort and
improve, change or add to Find all of you TFA photos at: manipulation of my
those images using Photoshop
Elements. There's just no limit www.casey.printroom.com circumstances.
to what can be done with the Finally I go to the Lord in
computer software these Prayer.
days. Recently we worked on
creating a concept image as
well as creating visual “Then he said to me, “This
illusions. These were is what the Lord says:…
composed in the camera. Registration Begins Now
There's an example below. It is not by force nor by
Interested in joining the class? For 2009-2010 strength, but by My Spirit,
It's fifth period Monday & says the Lord Almighty.”
Tuesday.
Register now for the 2009-2010 school year. Special sign up planned during the Zechariah 4:6
----Pam Casey Student Led Conferences January 29th. Registration fee is $100.00. Save $25 per
student if you register during January-February. Happy New Year
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Ms. Rachel and World Environment students Ayanna
Faison, Tiffany Jordan, and Brandon Siebert opened their
booth at the Neptune Beach Green Market for the first
time on Saturday, January 3, 2009! Produce, from their
enchanting organic garden on the TFA campus, was artfully
displayed on a picnic table with greens, lettuce, tomatoes,
marigolds, lemon grass, and assorted herbs filling wicker
baskets. The weather was perfect so the crowd of
shoppers lingered to chat with the students to learn about
their unique school. If you are looking for a place to stroll
on a Saturday afternoon, treat yourself to a visit to Jarboe
Park from 2:00-5:00 and take home something for supper
from TFA’s own garden.
---KLSH
Asian Exhibition from HILI/MASC 1-4
This year, the year of the Essential question “Why Change?”, ninth and tenth grade students have been
studying Asia, a region of ancient tradition and ultra modernity. The study began with China, looking back from
the Beijing Summer Olympics to China’s thousands of years of dynastic rule, then to the twentieth century under
Chairman Mao and his government’s impact on Tibet and the 14th Dalai Lama. From this base in China, students,
in teams, began to choose a specific Asian country to research. In HILI, the teams explored the cultural history,
including political and economic practices, as well as religious and artistic traditions. In MASC, they studied the
biomes of their country, as well as more in depth economic principles. Throughout the study, all kept in mind
what has changed, what has remained traditional, and how the natural environment has affected and been affected
by human habitation. Students spent the last week before Christmas break teaching their classmates about their
team’s country. The team studying Burma (Myanmar), for example, showed a video portraying the military
repression of the largely Buddhist population, as has occurred for decades in both Burma and Tibet. Now the
teams will create dioramas depicting the geography, weather, plant and animal life, and aspects of human life
specific to that region. Creating these replicas should assist in deeper recognition that the natural world is the
human world; there is one world which human life partly shapes--and is shaped by, as well. The study of Asia is
particularly suited to discerning how this transformative shaping can be viewed as cyclical, the wheel of life, and as
linear, marked by eruptive events. “Why Change?” becomes “what change do I want to see?” and “how change?”
The quintessential Asian, Gandhi, suggests a starting point, whether linear or cyclical: “I must be the change I
want to see.”
---KLSH

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