Perkins Elementary School- Dan Koss-Principal; Dean of Students-Shelly Johnson; Gail Kromrie-Office Manager

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&nbsp; Upcoming events: Summer!&nbsp;&nbsp; Enjoy your summer, and keep creating! The&nbsp;Des Moines&nbsp;Summer Art&nbsp;Festival, June 28th -&nbsp;30th will include works by four Perkins artists, Owen Marett, Kg; Owen Brown, 1st grade; Olivia Liechti, 2nd grade; and Ayden Harris, 2nd grade.&nbsp;&nbsp;For more information <a href="https://ch1prd0310.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=Us1E_GV0Z0-LRlyLK9C_rKqxDUTUD9AIS8Cvz_r7x4Osaym2Jz5hrhO5HOU_XLiAAbX_JO_f5AQ.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fdesmoinesartsfestival.org%2fstudent_artists.php" target="_blank">http://desmoinesartsfestival.org/student_artists.php</a>. 
 If you are willing to volunteer, your help would be greatly appreciated as an extra set of eyes on field trips, and/or help with the kindergarten at any time&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;with the first and second grades when we are painting or doing other messy things.&nbsp;I would also GREATLY appreciate people who would be willing hang/change the artwork in the halls when the grades finish their next project.&nbsp;Please email me if you are interested.&nbsp; PLEASE! Supplies you can help the art room with
 Things you may have around the house:
Hand held pencil sharpeners We are in need of pencil sharpeners!
Sandpaper to draw/paint on
Paper grocery bags Old pencils that aren&#8217;t being used and are taking up space
Left over yarn, any color
Fishing line
Tissue paper from gift bags (It doesn&#8217;t matter if it is crimpled) 
 Instead of throwing these in the recycling bin, bring them into the art room from time to time:
Small mirrors from compacts
Plastic crystal light containers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(hold pencils sharpener, and an eraser for each table &#8211; need more for pencils and colored pencils) 
Cereal boxes (thow the bag away and flatten the box) Ice cream buckets and lids (buckets make great storage, and the lids turn into dream catchers)
Pump hair spray containers ( I have none, and need these for the clay unit)
Frosting containers or other small plastic containers (with lids would be best, but not necessary.)
Flat Styrofoam shapes (cleaned meat trays are great)
Newspapers (we don&#8217;t need all your newspapers, just a pile from time to time)
Calendars!&nbsp;Don&#8217;t throw these out at the end of the year!&nbsp;Bring them in I could use&nbsp;the pictures.
Old coloring books with pages that have not been colored in (we use the line drawings to practice representational drawing) 
 If you are willing to purchase items to donate&#8230; these would be appreciated:
Tissues - We have none in the Art Room Sandpaper to sand with
Sponges for the tables
Lysol all purpose spray for the tables and counters
Sticky tac
Plastic yarn needles
Chocolate&#8230; it helps with the mental well being &nbsp; Donor's Choose If you are interested in donating to Ms. McCoy's classroom through donorschoose.org&nbsp; check out what I have posted here... <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/project/introducing-art-history-and-artists-into/977709/?pma=true&amp;pmaId=1760287&amp;pmaHash=g%2FR0EP%2Fjxzwm9uDkSkfPiA%3D">http://www.donorschoose.org/project/introducing-art-history-and-artists-into/977709/?pma=true&amp;pmaId=1760287&amp;pmaHash=g%2FR0EP%2Fjxzwm9uDkSkfPiA%3D</a> 3D&amp;utm_source=dc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=feedback_donationmessage_teacher#lastliveupdate Teacher: Mindi McCoy Hello, I would like to introduce myself to the Perkins family.&nbsp;My name is Mindi McCoy and I am 41 years old and live in Urbandale.&nbsp;I am from Council Bluffs, IA and have lived in the Des Moines area since 1998.&nbsp;I am single, and live with a Yorkie mix named Ellie, and a Calico cat named Chloe.&nbsp;My hobbies include Yoga, Biking, walking my dog, dining out with friends (I don&#8217;t cook but, love to eat) going to the downtown farmers market, seeing movies, and watching some bad TV to relax at the end of each day.&nbsp;I enjoy reading next to the pool in the summers although, don&#8217;t read as much as I would like to during the school year.&nbsp;And yes, I have to admit, I am one of those women that dress their little dogs up in outfits and I do carry her around in a purse. 
.&nbsp;My degree is in Art Education from Northwest Missouri State University, where I graduated in 1994. I was also commissioned as a 2ndlieutenant in the U.S. Army when I graduated.&nbsp;I was able to pay for my own college by going through Army ROTC.&nbsp;After graduating, I spent a little time at Ft. Ben Harrison doing some active duty training before it closed and then I worked as a k-12 Art teacher in a small town in Missouri for 3 years before moving to Des Moines.&nbsp;Since moving to Des Moines I have worked as an elementary art teacher, and a high school alternative teacher, and I also worked for DMACC in the high school completion program for 5 years.&nbsp;While working at&nbsp;&nbsp; Callanan I also worked as an adjunct professor at DMACC for the past 10 years.&nbsp;I do hold a Masters degree from Iowa State.&nbsp;Go Cyclones!&nbsp;I am certified in the State of Iowa to teach K-6 Art, 7-12 Art, and 7-12 Multicat.
I am no longer in the Army Reserve.&nbsp;I did enjoy it, and I got to do things that a lot of people never get to do!&nbsp;I have gone skydiving, rappelling, rode in Blackhawks, and tanks, and I even got to blow stuff up! I do have some fun scars from my time.&nbsp;I have a little scar on my elbow from my one and only attempt at an Aussie repel. I am happy to be back in an art classroom where I belong.&nbsp; I do have to say the students at Perkins are GREAT!&nbsp;They are enthusiastic learners and I have had the pleasure of seeing some real artistic talent.&nbsp;I am excited to guide them through the process of learning about the various art media and techniques as well as different artist styles throughout history.&nbsp;We will also spend some time talking about our art and critiquing it.&nbsp;I do make an effort to connect what we are doing in the art room to what the students are learning in social studies and science, and to reinforce the language arts concepts in the art room.&nbsp;
&nbsp;Please feel free to stop in the Art room any time and check out what is going on! Old News Spring 2013 - The 4thgrade took their field trip to the Art Center and sculpture garden on Tuesday April 16th.&nbsp;The students represented Perkins very well and had a great time. Spring 2013 - The following four young artists represented Perkins Elementary in the Des Moines Public Schools Annual Art Exhibit. Owen Lyle, 1stgrade, Ian Bishop 3rdgrade, Ezra Odole, 4thgrade and Michelle Dang, 5thgrade.&nbsp; If you are a parent of one of these artists and would like photographs emailed to you, please request them from <a href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#109;&#105;&#110;&#100;&#105;&#46;&#109;&#99;&#99;&#111;&#121;&#64;&#100;&#109;&#115;&#99;&#104;&#111;&#111;&#108;&#115;&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;">mindi.mccoy@dmschools.org</a> For more information about the art show&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://finearts.dmschools.org/invitation.html">http://finearts.dmschools.org/invitation.html</a>. Fall 2012 - Our entry won 2nd place in the 11thannual Des Moines Department of Public works snow plow painting contest!&nbsp; Updating your site is easy! To replace the text on this page with your own, follow these simple instructions: &nbsp; Step 1: Click the Last Modified Date link on the bottom of this page. 
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