Panama City Renaissance School events and activities

Panama City Renaissance School kids join Mardi Gras Fun

PCRS Events,Panama City   

January 29, 2008

Outside the Box – Juliann Talkington

Juliann

On Friday evening, children from the Panama City Renaissance School practiced their jumping and catching skills at the St. Andrew Mardi Gras kid’s parade. In addition to watching the parade and running to get the strings of multi-colored beads and noise makers, the children enjoyed spending time with their schoolmates.

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Pajama party a hit

PCRS Events,Panama City   

January 28, 2008

Outside the Box – Juliann Talkington

Juliann

On Tuesday evening, children from the Panama City Renaissance School joined children from around Panama City at the Bay County Library for a Pajama Party. Ana Montorio, the PCRS Spanish teacher, attended the event and helped the children learn where they could find Spanish books. Other children experimented with some of the learning activities on the computers, explored the books shelves and talked with the librarians. Then the Library Children’s Department staff put on a special program of stories and crafts. In addition to the activities, the kids had fun showing off their PJs.

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Children learn about Spanish cuisine

Foreign Language,PCRS Events,Spanish   

Outside the Box – LeeAnn Kozan and Ana Montorio

Juliann

On Wednesday afternoon, the Panama City Renaissance School second graders had a Spanish culinary experience at their teacher’s home. During this activity, they made a Spanish omelet. This hands-on project complimented their classroom activities of following an outline and directions (recipe), working together, learning, using new vocabulary, and the necessity of being careful and paying attention – potato peelers, egg cracking, keeping the food in the cooking dishes, etc. 
 
 The children thoroughly enjoyed the reward — eating their omelet along with other traditional Spanish food – bread, tomatoes, ham, almonds and a Spanish desert.
 
The conversation during the event was mostly in Spanish.
Bravo kids and gracias Sra. Montorio!

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Explore the Panama City Renaissance School

PCRS Academics,PCRS Events,Panama City   

January 21, 2008

Outside the Box – Juliann Talkington

Juliann

Learn Chinese and Spanish, experiment with math, create a mask and talk with parents and teachers.

These activities are part of a special two day program at the Panama City Renaissance School. On Tuesday, January 22 from 9:00 – 11:00 am and again on Thursday, January 24 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, parents and their children are invited to visit the school and learn about the PCRS program.

Both events will be held at 100 N. Mac Arthur, near the intersection of Cherry Street and Cove Boulevard in the “Cove” area of Panama City. For more information, call the school office at 850-215-8712.

Panama City Renaissance School welcomes visitors

PCRS Events   

January 14, 2008

Outside the Box – Juliann Talkington

Juliann

How time flies! It is already time to start thinking about school for the fall of 2008. This year the Panama City Renaissance School will have two events.

Explore the School Day is on Tuesday, January 22 from 9:00 am – 11:00 am. During this event, parents can observe in the classrooms and children can participate in school day activities. The administrator and parents will be available to answer questions.

The annual Open House is the evening of January 24 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Parents and children are encouraged to visit the school. Teachers, parents, students and the administrator will be on hand to answer questions.

For more details on either program call the school office at 850-215-8712.

PCRS children visit St. Augustine

Florida,History,PCRS Events   

January 5, 2008

Outside the Box – Kate Estes and Kate Huhn

Juliann

On a beautiful, COLD winter day in early January, the children from the Panama City Renaissance School second grade class, a few children from other classes, parents, and teachers visited the Spanish settlement in St. Augustine.

 

Kate Estes, English Teacher and field trip leader: We met at the gates to the Castillo de San Marcos, a Spanish fort built in 1762 to protect the city of St.Augustine and Spain’s various landholdings in the New World. The fort is the oldest masonry and only 17th century fort still in existance in North America, and was never taken in battle. At the fort gate, the children were welcomed by a reinactor dressed as a Spanish soldier.
 
First we went up the coquina stairs to the gun deck, where the cannons are kept. The children enjoyed actually touching and reading about the many cannons which sit atop the fort. We found that many of the cannons exhibited in the fort were captured in various battles in and around Florida. We also toured the lookout towers and the bell tower where the soldiers would have kept a close watch on the Matansas River and Atlantic Ocean for incoming enemy ships.
 
The children recalled that the fort had been made almost entirely of coquina, a substance formed from crushed shells, and that coquina was a perfect material for a fort. Because the coquina is relatively soft compared to other building materials, cannon balls shot at the fort often stuck in the coquina walls rather than breaking the walls apart. At night, the soldiers would leave the fort and collect the enemy cannon balls from the fort walls and shoot them back at the enemy ships.
 
Next we took a tour of the lower-level of the fort. The lower level consists of many rooms used as sleeping quarters, storage for gun powder, food, water and other supplies, and a chapel. We listened as a park ranger recounted the history of the grand fort from its creation through the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and up to today.
 
The children learned that the moat surrounding the fort was a dry moat where farm animals were kept, that a large hill once kept enemies from viewing the fort from land, and that during the various Indian wars, the colonists jailed captured Native Americans in the fort. After touring the fort, we walked a few blocks to the Plaza in the center of downtown St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. The children viewed a monument erected at the site and immediately recognized the names of Ponce de Leon who, searching for the Fountain of Youth, discovered Florida at St. Augustine in 1513, and Don Pedro Menendez who founded the City of St. Augustine in 1565.
 
We then visited the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Augustine built in 1797, and viewed the Government house originally built by Governor Gonzalo Mendez de Canzo about 1598 and later rebuilt in 1713. Next we took a walk down St. George Street, the main street of the colonial city. The children enjoyed visting the tea and candy shops as well as the very unique medieval sword shop. We had lunch at the Columbia, a famous Spanish restaurant, where we ate traditional Spanish foods. The children conversed in Spanish with Ms. Montorio and her family.
 
Afterward, we continued our walk down St. George Street, where the children were able to visit a still-running water mill at the Milltop Tavern. They also took a visit to the nation’s oldest wooden school house, which was likely constructed in the early 1600s, and St. Augustine’s Old City Gates, orignially surrounded by a moat and the only entrance to the city. The children also enjoyed viewing the beautiful site of Flagler College, originally built in the 1800′s as the magnificent Ponce de Leon hotel.
 
Kate Huhn, After School Program teacher: We started our trip to the Castillo de San Marcos on the second of January on one of the coldest days in five years. The weather was bone chilling, but we bundled up and started out anyway.
 
We toured the fort, watched a movie on the different types defense used at the fortress, and listened to a park ranger talk about how the fort was built. We continued our tour by walking to the town square where we saw the oldest Catholic church in the US. Then we proceeded down St George St. and looked at the oldest in the US.
 
After lunch at a local Spanish restaurant, where we soaked-up some of the local flavor, we visited the park where Ponce De Leon landed. At this location we saw the cross monument and wandered through a historic cemetery. It was fascinating to read the headstones while we spoke about the differences between their lives and ours.

.   Flagler Mill School House Fort