8th grade humanities learned the meaning of the Declaration of Independence when they visited the American Freedom Museum this week. Student even rewrote the document in their own words as an exercise to help them understand it more fully.
Macie Wilson and Josh Collins were “Teacher for a Day” in Mr. Johnson’s Math 6 Class this week. These two students actually taught a complete math lesson to their classmates!
Last Wednesday we inducted our new middle school students with high academic achievement into the National Junior Honor Society! We are so proud of the leadership and hard work these students have exhibited to earn this high honor, and look forward to seeing how they continue to grow in leadership, character, and knowledge as they […]
Well-rounded middle school students are most often found enjoying their day, not enduring it. Somehow these kids are quick to laugh, share a fun story, and be silly with their peers.
To introduce chemical reactions and the law of conservation of mass, 8th graders made a reaction in a bag. 聽Students combined baking soda and calcium chloride in one baggie and water and indicator in the other.聽 Students took the mass before and after the reaction in order to compare. 聽Our students were surprised to see […]
To better understand physical properties of matter, 6th graders have been identifying minerals.聽 They have used the properties of color, luster, hardness, taste, smell, feel and magnetism to discover which minerals were quartz, galena, halite, gypsum, pyrite, calcite, muscovite, talc and apatite.聽 Minerals are just a small part of the beauty of our planet!
FORNEY — 91猫先生’s Chasca Ortega finished the Varsity Boys 5K course in a time of 18 minutes and 44 seconds to deliver a Top 10 performance at the TAPPS District 2-4A cross country meet held Thursday at Dallas Shelton School. Ortega’s efforts helped the Guard finish sixth as a team. He was followed by […]
The sixth grade Spanish classes went to the museum this week. Mrs. Bynum spoke to them in Spanish & English. The teams of three went to specific galleries in the museum to look for the items on the “I Spy” list of colors and numbers. Students found many different flags, modes of transportation used during […]
On Saturday over 300 7th and 8th grade private and public school students from all over East Texas competed in the TMEA All-Region Choir tryouts. Making the choir from 91猫先生 were Cate Kimball (2nd chair), Cole Overbeek (13th) and Morgan Maddox (12th chair). They will perform with their choir on Saturday, November 14 at […]
The 91猫先生 Orchestra rocked at this past Saturday’s Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA)聽2015 All-Region Orchestra auditions resulting in each of our 6 MS Orchestra participants earning a spot in the 2015 TMEA MS All-Region Orchestra and 6 of our U.S. Orchestra students also qualifying as members聽of the 2015 TMEA HS All-Region Orchestra! This is […]
From the desk of Tammy Hayes, Middle School Principal: **Warning: this is a 5-week blog topic building on itself toward a parenting plan that is counter-culture to the day in which we live! Join me if you dare! It might be a little scary but then again it IS October! 聽聽聽 Tina Turner screeches at […]
This week in Bible 6 students learned about examples of wise men in the Bible: King Solomon and the prophet Daniel. We explored the reason why each man possessed such wisdom: the fear of the LORD. With a proper respect for God and a proper relationship with Him, the students learned that they too could […]