Eaton’s elementary students read the story “The Crayon Box that Talked” by Shane Derolf. They discussed being unique, tolerant, and working as a team. Each student made their own crayon to create a bulletin board.
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Mr. Haselden’s astronomy class is studying the moon and Earth. For the first project, the students designed a model of any object in our solar system. Their models will hang in the classroom and dazzle the other students. Here we have Elias. Elias pitied our former ninth planet – now a planetoid – Pluto and […]
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Mrs. Giacchino’s seniors finished reading Animal Farm by George Orwell and created a project to wrap up the unit. Students were asked to pick a dramatic or arts/crafts project from a list of approved projects. Christian created a timeline on a PowerPoint to compare the history of various totalitarian societies to the novel. Riley chose […]
Continue ReadingA Midsummer Night’s Dream
Seniors in Ms. Hrabosky’s British literature classes read A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in class over several weeks. Students enjoyed reading the play in Shakespearean as well as presenting their character lines in different voices, tones, and dialects which gave them a change of pace from our everyday vernacular English. Once the unit was […]
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It is officially spring! Ms. Hrabosky helped her English students hop into spring by learning about the vernal equinox which happened last Friday. During the vernal equinox, day and night have equal length. The position of the sun causes this to happen. During an equinox, the sun’s rays shine perpendicular to Earth. There are only […]
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Students in Language Arts class are busy sketching old western maps based on the story; “A Covered Wagon Girl, The Diary of Sallie Hester 1849-1850.” The journey begins in Bloomington, Indiana and ends in San Jose, California. Students recreate the journey by drawing visuals to show each stop along the way. It is quite a […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s English students read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech and discussed dreams; as well as, the importance to dreams in life. Students created a dream cloud that explained a personal or country dream in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Once all the dream clouds were composed, they put them together and […]
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Mrs. Coryer’s social studies groups worked on fun Native American crafts the week before Thanksgiving. They made beaded necklaces, painted bags with native images, and created totem poles. During the next 3 weeks, students will pretend to travel around the world as they learn about winter holidays in various countries. They have each made a […]
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Ms. Ammendola’s language arts students created posters representing their favorite characters in a book. They listed adjectives that describe their character, provided quotes to and from the character that provided evidence of their character traits, and wrote a summary about the character. In addition, they wrote an essay comparing and contrasting themselves to the character. […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s Ninth English students wrapped up the novel unit The Giver by presenting travel brochures and having a black and white party. Students created a travel brochure explaining why Elsewhere was better than Jonas’ community, demonstrated knowledge of Jonas’ community as well as compared it to an imagined or real community. Brochure material included […]
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