McDonald County Spelling Bee

Yolanda from Mrs. Drake’s Class Yesterday McDonald County held it’s district wide spelling bee. Grades 1-8 participated in this spelling bee, below is a list of notable winners from Noel Schools: 1st Grade – Aidan, fifth place3rd Grade – Kayla, fourth place4th Grade – Hannah, third place5th Grade – Parker, fouth place6th Grade -Yolanda, second…

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Terrific Tiger – April

Today we honored our Terrific Tigers for the month of April. Each one of these student from sixth grade has performed extremely well in both academics and as a citizenship. Each student has proven to be excellent examples of what hard work and determination look like, job well done by everyone! Devin from Mrs. Drake’s…

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Throwdown Thursday

Ahhhh….yes! Another week, another throwdown! For those not familiar with what with Throwdown Thursday, it is a weekly event that my students and I have developed. Students partner up with a classmate and label themselves as number ones and two. Number one student will then perform a dance or movement and the number two student…

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Mythbusters – Double Dip

Earlier this week we put a nice bow on our diversity of life unit. We concluded by watching our favorite science show, Mythbusters. Seeing that we just finished our lesson over bacteria, we decided to watch an episode that dealt with a classic germiphobe myth…..the double dip. In episode of Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie take…

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Bacteria Conclusions

On Friday we wrapped up our bacteria investigation. For five days we allowed our bacteria samples to grow on our agar petri dishes that we created a week ago. Below are some pictures of the final results. Let’s start off with our lunch room, front office, and computer lab.1. Water fountain2. Key board from sixth…

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Peer Review Practice

Students this week have been preparing short stories using a specific outline method in order to build the appropriate parts of a story, rising action, climax, falling action, etc. So in order to prepare for our upcoming collaboration piece with Mr. Lamshed’s class, we practiced our peer review skills today.PracticeStudents were asked to present their…

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Holocaust ID Cards

Inspired by my visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum back in December, I decided to assign my students an assignments using the identification cards given out at the museum. For those not familiar, when you enter the museum you are given an ID card with the identity of a Jewish person that experienced the…

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Bacteria, Day 2

I know what your thinking…..the highlight of my day, looking at Mr. McClung’s funky mouth germs…..YES! Below is a picture of the agar from my water bottle sample, which by far has been the grossest result we have had to this point. Below is a fairly new discovery from last hour science class today. One…

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Observing Earth Day

Today we took some time out of our normal class schedule to observe Earth Day. First part of the day students prepared Earth Day slideshows using Google Docs. Below is one of the many slideshows that was prepared by my students. In addition to today’s events, Mr. C’s students brought us 6 frogs, and we…

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Bacteria Observations, Day 1

Today we continued with our bacteria discussion in science class. After all that swabbing yesterday, we decided to take a look at our results. As stated in the previous post, we swabbed everything from toilets to cell phones. Above is a picture of a petri dish from a swabbing of one of our beloved cockroaches….

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