Students are studying all parts of a map and utilizing their map skills and following the story Flat Stanley . Bonnie Derbes fourth-grade class has been diligently working on writing skills. The students used the story The Great Kapok Tree as a base for many creative writing projects. The students brainstormed taxonomies for rain forest animals, unusual action verbs and spectacular adjectives. Johnson Elementary Fourth-grade students will be taking the TCAP Writing Assessment today.
Students writer an essay on an assigned topic within an allotted time frame.
Kenrose Elementary Kindergartners are learning how to create monoprints in art class. We are using warm colors to create a print of a hot dog or cool colors to create a cool cat. Liberty Elementary Zachary Whiteman, a first-grader in Ruth Wingfield s class, recently earned 100 points in the Accelerated Reader Program. Zachary, along with his classmates Abby Poff and Brennan Langenbach, were recognized for having earned 50 or more points as well as special T-shirts in the Accelerated Reader program. We are very fortunate to have many volunteers who help to make reading an improvement in each child s life.