7 to 9 p.m. Later, they attended a special assembly featuring entertainment with an earth science theme. Lights out was scheduled for about 10 p.m. The Messiah students, who also slept over, planned to wake the elementary students at 6 a.m. for breakfast and then lead them through more science projects until the event ended at 10 a.m. The Messiah students, all studying to become teachers, receive bonus points for participating in the sleepover. Christine Patterson, a junior from Pittsburgh, says she rehearsed her project three times during the week, including once in front of a Messiah class. The sleepover gives the would-be teachers a great opportunity to work with real students, she says.
Kids are really smart, too.
At one station, students crawled through a dark cave filled with aluminum foil stalactites and stalagmites as well as simulated salamanders and assorted cave dwellers. There are like paw prints, there are stalagmites or whatever you call them. There are bugs. Several teachers and administrators volunteered to spend the evening with the students. Reprinting, reposting, retransmission or other use of the material on this site without the express written permission of The Sentinel is forbidden.