International Day of Peace was celebrated at Butler Elementary School on September 21st. All students created a pinwheel in art class which they “planted” on campus symbolizing “Whirled Peace”. Classes discussed how they can help create peace in their classroom, home, community and the world. This event is celebrated each year at Butler Elementary under the direction of Art Teacher Constance Rogers. Submitted by Tammy Smith.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
