Catch up with The Civic Circle:
Teaching Artist extraordinaire Nick Newlin’s visit to the Weller Road Elementary School Civic Club had it all! Students wrote in their civic notebooks, wrote poetry, and wrote a song about peace together. And no NicoloWhimsey workshop is complete without a little juggling!
Thank You, Student Journalists!
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The Civic Circle extends a huge thanks to student journalists at Silver Chips, the Blair High School newspaper, for their recent visit! Civic Circle students read Silver Chips, heard about what it’s like to write for the school paper, and designed their own papers in mock editorial meetings.
For the first time in what feels like forever, The Montgomery College Volunteer Fair took place in person! Thanks to Montgomery College for this opportunity, and thanks to The Civic Circle’s Trevor Schmutz for holding down the fort.
The Civic Circle was honored to lead a news literacy panel for middle school Emerging Leaders at the Montgomery County Commission for Women’s Legislative briefing on January 30. Students discussed why knowledge is power, explored youth-centered news sites, and learned skills for discerning truth from fiction. They also played a “find the fake” game, reviewing news stories that were both fabricated and real. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference! Thanks to the Commission
The Civic Circle was excited to kick off its first Civic Club at Weller Road Elementary School with two outstanding assembly shows in January. Things got off to a lively start with virtual performances featuring the wonderful Lea Morris and Nick Newlin. The shows were simulcast to multiple 4th and 5th Grade classrooms, and students sang, moved, and interacted directly with the performers one classroom at a time. Thank you, Weller Road, and thank you,