SOLDIER, SOLDIER WILL YOU MARRY ME? Fourth-grade students at Coastal Ridge Elementary School performed music from across the generations and around the world at their concert on June 10, after working with music teacher Karen Littlefield on such techniques as rhythm, vocal performance and beginning instrumental performance. Pictured here, Abigail Eneman and Ben MacLean act out the comic tune "Soldier, Soldier" while their classmates sing the refrain.
Photo by Jennifer L. Saunders




STEPPING BACK IN TIME. In what has become a favorite tradition for York Middle School staff and students, and community members alike, the Annual Shakespeare Festival transformed the grounds at York Middle School to an Elizabethan faire on May 29. Sixth-grade students and teachers donned their 16^th-century best for this year's event as the students brought scenes from Shakespeare's great works to life. Performances of excerpts of such famous plays as "Macbeth" were performed in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by York's own Gwyneth Wykes, and "The Bard" himself, William Shakespeare, known locally as York Public Library Director Robert Waldman. The event also included the annual pig roast and jousting match. Pictured here, students take part in games that would have been typical of a balmy May afternoon in the latter half of the 1500s.
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INCH BY INCH, ROW BY ROW. It is a tradition for third-grade students at Coastal Ridge Elementary School that "Maine Night" be filled with music. Pictured here, the entire third-grade class performs for the students and faculty at Coastal Ridge in preparation for the evening's festivities on May 29. Each third-grade classroom had its own special shirt color, creating a rainbow as the students seen here sing "The Garden Song" to the accompaniment of local musician Stephen Bracciotti while music teacher Karen Littlefield directs the song. That evening, the students performed their concert for family members and also shared the Maine-themed projects they have been working on in their classrooms.
Photo by Jennifer L. Saunders