Mrs. Ponce’s and Mrs. Dawkins’ classes used part of their class time today to view the Vietnam Veteran Wall that has been set up outside of the American Freedom Museum and Founder’s Hall. Be sure to come out this weekend to see the wall and join in the festivities!
Prekindergarten students in Mrs. Bell’s class are learning about the plant cycle and what plants need to survive. Students observed how quickly grass seeds sprouted. London is even giving her grass a trim!
There is never a dull day in Kindergarten! From watching a hamster rolling around on the floor to observing growing, changing tadpoles,聽learning is interesting and exciting. Mrs. Newman’s kindergarten students watch their pet hamster roll around on the classroom floor while other students observe their tadpoles swimming and developing into frogs. “One lost his tail!” […]
After the testing this week,聽4th graders entered the science classroom聽to floating ping-pong balls. The kids asked, “What’s going on聽here?” Mrs. Brindley explained that聽聽the floating ping-pong ball is a wonderful example of聽 Bernoulli’s principle. Bernoulli, an 18th-century Swiss mathematician, discovered something quite unusual about moving air. He found that the faster air flows over the surface […]
The PreK classes have been studying insects and butterflies while聽watching caterpillars transform into butterflies in their classrooms for 2 weeks. This week, they released the butterflies!
Mrs. Brashier鈥檚 class took small breaks throughout testing week to get the wiggles out. Using the GoNoodle website, students were allowed to follow along with different characters from the websites. Each character gave directions on how to do different things. Student mimicked different activities such as walking on a tight rope, running a race with […]
Microsoft Excel was introduced to fifth grade students in the computer lab with the help of M&M candy. Students first grouped and counted colors of M&M’s.聽聽Using this information,聽聽they created a聽 simple Excel spreadsheet聽which included聽a pie chart.聽Students also聽formatted the data points to make each pie chart section match the colors of M&M’s.聽聽Fifth graders聽were then able to […]
Kara Cunningham and Jack Edward Barber enjoy reading together in a beanbag chair during class this week! Reading is a regular part of our classes here as we seek to cultivate student’s minds.
As a conclusion to their study of Texas, Kindergarten classes celebrated all things Texan. Students dressed up in cowboy hats and boots and spent the afternoon engaging in activities like sack races, horseshoes, lasso, and even scrubbing clothes on a washboard. The kids had a wonderful time, and we would especially like to thank all […]
PreK students enjoyed a morning of cowboy related activities on Friday! Students sifted sand for gold, enjoyed races, played horseshoes, and even got to rope and sit on saddles. It was a fun way to celebrate what they’ve been learning about our great state: Texas!聽Parents came to help with the activities, and the students had […]
91猫先生 3rd Grade students have been hard at work making life better for others by creating a new invention! In its 8th year, 91猫先生’s annual Invention Convention was developed to teach research writing skills and foster creativity and problem solving. As part of the project, students research a famous inventor, write a research […]
On Wednesday, our Kindergarten students lead chapel, teaching all of us about the power of God to use the mundane and ordinary for his mighty purposes. 聽 Three trees grew up strong and tall in the woods. One wanted to be a treasure chest, another a mighty boat, and the third to be the tallest […]