WDE 2nd Graders Exploring the Three Stages of Matter
September 20, 2016
Second grade students at WDE explored the three states of matter using balloons. The balloons represented the molecules found in matter. Submitted by Jessica Dawkins.
Judge Wells visits 5th graders at MSE during Constitution Week
September 20, 2016
WDE 2nd Grade Students Learning Math
September 20, 2016
FHS Key Club Participates in Coastal Cleanup
September 20, 2016
Members of the Freeport High School Key Club braved the rain showers and participated in the Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, September 17th. Submitted by Patty Woodard.
FES 4th Graders Participate in Coastal Cleanup
September 20, 2016
WDE 5th Grade Students Studying Growth Mindset
September 20, 2016
5th grade students have been studying growth mindset and character traits that people need in order to be successful. For Open House, the students shared with their parents their very own growth mindset writings and emojis that represented character traits needed for success. Submitted by Jessica Dawkins.
Ripley's Educator Appreciation
September 14, 2016
FMS Students Honor 9/11 Victims through Art
September 12, 2016
The Freeport Middle School Art Department, led by Kendra Peloquin, created collaborative multi-media flags to hang in the school in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01. The students learned to reflect social and political conditions in their art. Submitted by Chelsea Ellison.
WDE Students Participate in AIMS Activity
September 8, 2016
Ms. Mills class participated in an AIMS activity where they launched rockets…
Stomp rockets is a great hands-on activity that concluded our lessons on Earth and Space. In this lessons the students use the scientific method to hypothesize, conduct the experiment, analyze the results, draw conclusions and report results. They also reflected on how they could have changed or improved the experiment. The discussed and analyzed design aspects, environmental factors and other things that could change the results. In addition to the science aspect students used a real life number line to decipher their results and estimate their final distances based on where their rockets landed and how close or far they were from the positions that were marked. Submitted by Darlene Paul.