Mrs. Giacchino’s eleventh grade students are reading The Scarlet Letter and were required to complete a project. They had to research an individual in society (past to present) who sinned and is/was involved in a scandal like Hester. They had to find a picture of the person and write three paragraphs that consisted of a […]
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Mrs. Giacchino’s English classes discussed leap day and leap year and then created a leap day time capsule. After February 29, 2016, the next leap day will not happen again until 2020! Imagine how much you will have changed and grown by then. A fun way to track your changes over the next four years is […]
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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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In September, the students in Mr. Nolen’s U.S. History class studied the founding of colonial America. As part of their study, they prepared projects to present to the class. Each student selected a colonial region, researched information about the colonies in that region, and organized this information for a PowerPoint presentation to give to […]
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Mrs. Giacchino’s 11th graders finished reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and wrapped up the unit by completing a project. Students were asked to pick a dramatic or arts/crafts project from a list of approved projects. Elias created a timeline on a PowerPoint to show the important events of the novel […]
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One of the Mentor Room students prepares to give his report on Teddy Roosevelt.
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Ms. Ammendola’s social studies classes created Power Point presentations on famous historical people. The 5th and 6th grade students helped the 4th grade students cite their resources and create transitions. Then, the students presented their projects to the class.
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Ms. Ammendola’s upper elementary language arts class read the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. Their project was to make a paper crane. One student decided to make a few more than one! Submitted by – Ms. Ammendola, K5 Language Arts Teacher
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Ms. Ammendola’s upper elementary social studies class is learning about the English colonies. Each student chose an important person from that time period and, using the internet as a resource, wrote ten important facts about him or her. Then the students had to organize the facts in a list and present it to the class. […]
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The Mentor Room students enjoyed the entertaining presentation of one of their peers as she explained her Georgia Project. -Submitted By – Ms. O’Reilly, Mentor Room Instructor
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