The NCLA´s High School Spanish classes participated in LOCURA DE MARZO - March Madness - through music! Students listen to music and watch videos of 16 Spanish songs from various artists throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Students complete a prediction bracket and then all the classes vote and a winning song is chosen. Locura de marzo:
Is a celebration of Hispanic culture and language through MUSIC - as language does not only live in books!
Promotes cultural awareness & language proficiency
Introduces students to new songs and encourage them to actively engage with culture and language
Introduces new Vocabulary and Create excitement for language learning
Familiarizes students with different accents
Allows students to see different places and different faces from all over the Spanish-speaking world
Introduces students to intercultural understandings and connections through musical traditions and instruments, different vocabularies and grammar structures, knowledge of Spanish products and practices
Students in each class with winning brackets that received prizes of gift cards, candy, and homework passes were:
Tommy Ghent, Annalise Hutto, Genesis Guzman-Martinez, Micah Johnson, Lily Warren, Yasmin Abdallah, Cassidi Lewis, Desmon Roberts, Madison East, Jah Little, Andrew Satterwhite, Vincent Draper, Gaby Ruthland, Melanie Pineda, Avery Britt. Not all students are pictured.
Marlene Blanco
Bennett Boumeester
Khloe Brown
Gianfranco Chiquito
Amanda Demmitt
Timiah Dorsett
Madison East
Christiana Ferentinos
Brittany Fonseca
Avery Franklin
Emmitt Garrow
Molly Hathaway
Rebecca Jones
Evan Judge
Callie Kington
Ethan Lawrence
Ariana Leon
Bennett Martin
Cydney Mounce
Medara Patron
Brittany Ramirez
Ethan Sechrist
Jaythan Singleton
Lanie Speed
Toni Thompson
This weekend, the NCLA High School Choir received a SUPERIOR (the highest rating) at the Carowinds Festival of Music! This was the first time they have attended the competition, and they loved traveling with the High School Band, who also earned a superior rating!
In addition to this group's success, we also want to recognize a few outstanding individual achievements. Rebekah Franks was accepted into Governor’s School as an Alto 1, and Ella Lawrence was accepted into UNCSA.
We are super proud of all of these talented singers and Mrs. Odum for all of her hard work!
This past weekend the NCLA band had 13 students attend the Piedmont honor band at Glenn High School. These students played for about ten hours with students from other schools and put on a concert at 6pm on Saturday. There was a concert band (6th grade), symphonic band (7-8th grade) and a wind ensemble (highschool). NCLA was represented in all three bands. These students are awesome!
Thank you to the Burns, Taylor and Belfi families for the special springtime treats for the high school staff. We really appreciate it!
Thank you also to Mitchell, Bartlett & Bell for supplying our donuts!!!
Post your pictures below so we can see all of the smiling faces from the last 2 days!!!
