Congratulations to our Boys and Girls XC Teams on their great results last night in Haines City! Our boys team came in FIRST PLACE! With Alex Vazquex placing 2nd overall with a time of 11:59 (way to break 12, Alex!), Rylan Tray placing 5th overall with a time of 13:21, Jonah Meyers placing 6th overall with a time of 13:31, and Connor Facey placing 10th overall with a time of 14:17. Emory Butler rounded out our top 5 with 15th place (time not posted yet). Our girls team placed fourth. Grace Boatright placed 3rd overall with a time of 14:17. Grace Daughtrey, Lina Rifai, Jenny Tagalos, and Katie Narramore rounded out our Top 5 (times not posted yet). Lavelle's classes have been making huge strides with their writing this week! They have been working their way through the revision and rewriting process by fine-tuning their organizational structure and the reflective quality of the conclusions. In addition, they have begun analyzing the development of theme in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." They are learning how the author subtly establishes theme through all other literary elements while appreciating Poe as the grandfather of psychological horror and murder mystery.
Students in Mrs. Sitta's sixth grade science classes have learned of the diverse backgrounds of scientists. Students created posters of famous scientists and were amazed at the different goals and interests of scientists. Students are currently studying about the systems of the Earth and how they are interconnected. After learning about many different forms of government, Civics students are now diving into the Declaration of Independence! They are learning about the Declaration and making connections with some of the big ideas that our founding fathers used in the development of our country! Geometry students are working on their dexterity while discovering how to use a compass and protractor to translate, reflect, rotate and dilate images. Ms. Whitehurst's classes are having a fun Friday after working on informative essays all week. 8th graders are scanning their way to theme! They are participating in station activities in which each station has them use technology to locate information about theme. Examples include scanning QR codes to examine famous pieces of art and poetry, completing a survey poll to create a word cloud of theme examples, and examining their favorite song's lyrics to determine theme in one word. 7th graders are also participating in a station activity. They are taking a deep dive into art as they examine famous pieces of art and elements of theme. Works of art being studied include: The Oath of Horatii by Jaques Louis David, The Swing by Jean Honore Fragonard, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, The Scream by Edvard Munch, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, and American Civil War Battle Scene by Angus McBride. In Mr. Coombs' Science class, we are going on a nature walk to observe the world and make connections to our spheres. The kids are making some amazing connections!! 6th grade Language & Literature After delving into the world of literature and learning to cite text evidence both explicitly and implicitly, 6th grade students learned to determine THEME or CENTRAL IDEA through details the author offered in the text. Students worked through a power point, read the short story "Stray," and filled out a graphic organizer of clues in the form of quotes, character descriptions, and key details provided in the text. After discussing and sharing in pairs and whole group, students were able to write their THEME on sentence strips which were displayed. PreAlgebra students are continuing to work on Transformations and Angle Relationships. This coming week students will create a map of their imaginary city using these skills to see the real-world application. This will be completed in class and count as a Summative. Tutoring days are Thursday afternoons from 2:45-3:45 unless I have a meeting. On those weeks, I reschedule if possible. Algebra students have just completed their first Section over Expressions and are beginning Equations and Inequalities. The music department is busy celebrating the International Day of Peace with reflections and live stream performances on September 21st and is talking about how Peace comes in many forms and what it looks like to them. We made a peace wall to honor those things. Students are watching performances around the world as we come together to share our voice of peace. This week students also auditioned for all state chorus and orchestra and will find out in November who made it. Congrats to Sean A, Danny H, Georgia M, Jennifer T, Lael F, Ellie-Jane H, Reese S and Alexandra W for passing the first 2 rounds of all state chorus auditions! This week, American History students gained insight into what life was like in the English colonies by analyzing primary sources! Let’s just say this lesson made students more appreciative of their free time!” Sixth grade U.S. History students are struggling to survive the harsh conditions in the colony of Jamestown. They are learning about the hardships that the Jamestown colonists faced. At the end of this lesson, students created solutions for these struggles. They recommended things that the colonists could do to improve their quality of life and probability of survival. This unit has been interesting to say the least. Who knew the colonists should have brought farmers with them? Please ask your sixth grader about this. They all have some stories to tell you. Great job teachers and students! Here are 10 good deeds for 9/11.
Dear Friend of 9/11 Day, The 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks is now just one week away. We hope you will again join millions of Americans who will be observing this solemn day, now the nation's largest day of service, by taking time to do just ONE good deed for 9/11. Any good deed counts! Below are ten good ideas to help get you started. And please share your good deed plans on social media using the hashtag #911day. For more ideas and info, check out our brand new website, 911day.org. Thanks for helping to turn this day of tragedy into a day of doing good! 1. Purchase school supplies for your children’s classroom. 2. Visit an aging relative or friend -- someone that would benefit from your company. 3. Deliver food or cookies to your local fire or police station. 4. (If you’re a child living at home), help your parents clean the house, do dishes, make your bed, or assist your brother or sister with their homework. 5. Make a financial contribution to a charity, faith group, or school that matters to you. 6. Give something away to Goodwill, Salvation Army, or another charity, such as items of clothing (in good shape) to that you don’t need, like winter coats, shoes, or eyewear. Your children can give away used toys they don’t need, like bicycles or skates they’ve outgrown. 7. Volunteer. September is Hunger Action Awareness Month, so check out local soup kitchens, food pantries, or food banks, which provide food assistance and free meals to homeless and others. They need volunteers all the time. Also visit 911day.org/volunteer to search for other opportunities in your area. 8. Donate pet food to a local animal shelter. 9. Donate old cell phones, which often are provided to shelters for victims of domestic abuse. Many mobile phone companies accept these at their local stores. 10. Do a good deed for yourself – you count, too – so make 9/11 the day you quit smoking, start exercising, or begin a new activity you’ve put off. Your friends, David Paine and Jay Winuk Co-founders, 9/11 Day DONATE TO 9/11 DAY Thanks for the wonderful turn out for Open House!! Big success!!
Civics students are looking at colonial influences and how they impacted the development of our government! Geometry students are exploring the concept of multiple dimensions through reading Edwin Abbott's satire, Flatland. Algebra students are tackling radicals and learning how to find their products and sums. This will later help with solving problems involving quadratics. 6th grade and 7th grade Language and Lit students are bringing back reading! Students are reading at home every night and are growing brain cells and building comprehension with their hard work. In class, we have been having fun learning about explicit and implicit information and how it is needed in everything we read. Students have played Kahoot, analyzed a text with close reading strategies, played games to help them learn this important skill. In Ms. Whitehurst's class, students are working together to annotate text to make inferences, identify explicit and implicit information, and determine author's purpose. Students will use these skills as they cite textual evidence in their writing! In Gibson’’s classes we are doing lab explorations - i Honors Physical science we started the Motion unit with a speed lab and in Advanced Comprehensive 3 students are exploring the Properties of Matter by testing the properties of water. Discussion - Leadership class List of Strenghts One student said: " I like to make people laugh" I said: "Ok, stand up and I will give you 2min to make us laugh" Student: stood up - he was nervous, couldn’t do it and actually did cried a little. I said: Why the tears? Student: "because I don’t like to be in front of people" I said: " comedians get in front of people all the time" A week later same student came back prepared with his own material, stood up in front of the class (confident) and made us all laugh. The whole class applauded the student. It was an awesome moment. Sixth grade US History students are learning about 9/11. They are creating posters to show appreciation for our first responders. These posters will be displayed during 9/11 cookout hosted by Mr. Andrews. Mr. Bartuska’s Class: Students are presently mastering Cell Division (Mitosis and Meiosis and related Topics). In addition, as an introduction to the Nature of Science, our classes read the young adult book “Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” by Margarete Wetterer. This is a story about a storm that destroyed a railroad bridge near Kate Shelley’s home, causing the crash in to the creek of a steam locomotive and its railroad cars. This story was chosen to illustrate to students that “Science is Everywhere!” Following the reading of the book which I had scanned in as a pdf so it could be shown on the classroom screen, students were introduced to the Nature of Science -Hydraulics, the flow of open channel water such as in a creek, river or canal. Recently, I brought in a teaching flume, basically a portable natural channel that can be used to investigate flowing water and structures that engineers would design and place in flowing water environments. The photograph shows students watching the flow around a PVC tube that has been placed in the flume to simulate a cylindrical bridge pier. Phenomena that can be investigated includes Horseshoe Vortex Generation that can cause local scour around a real bridge pier, and Vortex Shedding that can induce lateral loads and cause vibrations in a bridge structure. Cheers, Mr. Bartuska This week in Global Tech the 6th graders put a lot of time into creating the tallest spaghetti structure. The goal was to create the tallest structure out of just spaghetti noodles and tape. Then once was the structure was complete they had to tie a marshmallow around the top to see if it could withstand the weight. This taught them architectural and engineering skills. They followed the design plan model with their group and had to work cohesively together in order to have the best outcome. Now they are going to be evaluating their work and teamwork and they will make a blog post on their own website that they have created! Single Use Reducers: students are focusing their efforts on reducing the impact of single use plastic and Styrofoam items in landfills and oceans. They are encouraging no/paper straws, reusable bags/paper bags in grocery stores, reusable water bottles at LCMA, along with recycling paper around the school, and less plastic or recycling plastic from the lunchroom. They have designed a reusable water bottle with the school logo to raise money to purchase a water bottle filing fountain. Dark Knights: students are building bat small bat houses and a large bat house to help the endangered bats in our local neighborhood. Bats are an important part of our ecosystem, needed to control many insects, and their guano makes a terrific organic fertilizer. Their habitats, like habitats of so many of nature’s creatures, are being destroyed by industrialization. Stings and Wings: students are making hummingbird feeder from recycled water bottles, and spreading awareness of these beautiful and endangered insects, as well as the rapid demise of the honeybee. They will work with Global Tech classes to teach them about the endangered insects and help them to build a hummingbird feeder of their own. Manateam: students are working in the hydroponic garden to grow vegetables for sale in the farmer’s market, using proceeds to help manatees. They will visit Sea World and see first-hand their efforts to save the sea cows, and hopefully, they will grow lettuce in the hydroponic garden to feed the manatees. Monarch Maidens: students are reusing milk cartons from the bistro to grow milkweed. Monarchs need this weed to feed and reproduce. Many people are killing off native milk weed in their landscaped yards, destroying the food and habitats of monarchs. They are making a monarch garden here at LCMA. These students are going to Winston to share what they have learned about monarchs and give them milkweed to start their own butterfly garden. Algae Abolishers: students are experimenting with algae eating fish to help control the spread of algae caused by runoff fertilizers. They have researched the algae in our own Lake Wire, and will use their results to see if it can help with the red tide outbreak. They are visiting Science classes here at LCMA on September 14th to share their research. In addition, each team has created a tri-fold display to spread awareness of their environmental issue at Open House here at school, and at the Lake Festival and Cardboard Boat Race on October 6th. Some teams have bulletin board displays with links to their social media accounts for more information |
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