From the desk of Raegan McCallum, Director of Information Technology: In order to help our students prepare for success this school year, we鈥檙e providing Microsoft Office to every student in grades 6-12 free of charge. With Office 365, your child will now have access to the latest version of Word, for writing; Excel, for spreadsheets; […]
During Life Skills class, the sixth grade came to the library for a 鈥淕et-to-Know the library tour鈥�. Mrs. Hays showed the students how to log onto the library catalog and find a book. She also showed them resources they have available to them through the library website. The students visited the second floor and Mrs. […]
Eighth graders are learning about atomic theory and all the different ideas proposed throughout the last 2000 years. To help them better remember the different parts of the theory, students were given Play Doh, lima beans, pinto beans, peas, petri dishes and paper to make their own models of the different ideas. This lab helps […]
Sixth graders used our surface tablets to research elements and turn their information into a Thinglink electronic poster.聽 Students were looking for the symbols, properties and compounds of elements that exist in nature.聽 Students also found out and when the element was discovered.聽 One great aspect of ThingLinks is that students can attach the URL […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: Everybody needs a 鈥渄o over鈥� now and again.聽 One of the most difficult feelings in life is to feel that you have messed something up so early in the game that you can never recover.聽 I remember being a newlywed and playing Scrabble.聽 On the very […]
8th grade art students used plaster gauze strips to create聽a cast of their partner’s face. Students will paint these masks with sugar skull designs and some will be on display at the Tyler Museum of Art exhibit for Dia de los Muertos in November.
Meet our Middle School Leadership Team for this year! Back Row L-R: Ben Lundy (Treasurer), Timothy Humphries (Vice-President), Chandler Fletcher (Student Rep – 8th), Josh Collins (Student Rep – 7th), & Nate Dahn (Student Rep – 6th) Front Row L-R: Emily Livesay (President), Marly Gunter (Student Rep – 7th), Brenna Powell (Student Rep – 8th), […]
We started our Pepper Pals program for Volleyball this week! The upper school volleyball girls made a name tag and wrote a quote for their pal’s locker and gave it to them during this week on Wednesday morning. Pepper pals is a program our Head Volleyball Coach, Candise Wise, created to help bridge the gap […]
6th and 7th Grade Humanities (Mrs. Mattay and Mrs. Figueroa) visited the museum for a lesson on 9/11. Students watched a video and heard from Mrs. Bynum about the causes and effects of that day on the U.S. This was very useful for our students because they were born just 2-3 years after this event […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: Middle School Retreat at Frontier Camp in Grapeland, Texas is coming around the calendar, October 13 & 14, 2016.聽 MS Retreat has become one of the cornerstones for building a strong 鈥渕iddle鈥� each year at 91猫先生.聽 Along with our commitment to student academics, […]
Sixth graders have been practicing the steps of the scientific method with a splatter lab.聽 First, students had to identify each step and describe their procedure.聽 Then, students tested how the drop height affected the splatter size of drops of water.聽 Students used measurement, observation, predicting, and drawing conclusions while conducting the experiment.
From the desk of Jan Hommel, Museum Director: Mrs. Wallace and her 8th grade science classes visited the American Freedom Museum this week for our 鈥淗istory Under A Microscope鈥� tour and activity. We have discovered that students often learn a concept or are introduced to an evaluating tool during class, such as the Scientific Method, […]