Elkins Recap

On Saturday our cross country boys and girls traveled to Elkins to compete in our first meet of the year. It turned out to be a great day for our team as the kids really stepped up their performance. Our girls had an outstanding race coming in 3rd in the 6/7a division and placing 4…

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Remembering September 11th

The picture above was taken outside of our school. On Friday we gathered teachers, students, and members of the community together to remember September 11th. Mr. McClung

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Lessons Learned

Lesson One – 9/11/01 Much like many other schools around the nation, today we will be observing the events of 9/11/01. We will be having a school wide observation and paying tribute to those that lost their lives on that day in September. In my class we will be sharing stories of 9/11, for me it…

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Short Shorts and Granola

It has been a long off-season and summer for my cross country runners, but after months of waiting we are finally getting the opportunity to run competitively this weekend at Elkins. We will be competing in our first official meet of the year and we are hoping for a big year. I’d like to invite…

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102

As apart of our remembrance of the attacks on 9/11/01, today in class we will be using an interactive media site from the History Channel that shows amazing home footage from the attacks that day. The name of the website is 102 Minutes that Changed America, it the site does a wonderful job of capturing what it…

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September 11th Research

Students, today we will begin our 9/11 research project as apart of our school wide remembrance of the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Students will be given a list of 4-5 names of people that died on that day and will be asked to research basic information about those individuals using the Remember website. Remember…

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McClung’s Class on Kidblog.org

Students, today we will be continuing our talks about globalization by introducing using a new web application. Today we will be setting up and using Kidblog.org to complete a writing prompt regarding economies. For today’s assignment you will be given a scenario and asked to provide your opinion on the matter. Mr. McClung

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Tutor It Up

In my AVID class, my students have been slowly introduced to AVID approach to tutoring. The past two weeks we have spent time examining how to question each other and how to properly help each other work through problems that we may have in content area classes. Since we are still waiting to get our…

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Preparing for 9/11 Tribute

Like many schools around the country, this week we will be taking quite a bit of time to pay tribute to those that lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks on America. To prepare for a tribute that our school will be holding on Friday this week, today students prepped flags with ribbons of individuals…

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Thank You

So…funny story. As it turns out I left my backpack (with all my school stuff) in Wyoming this past weekend. Luckily though I have a great friend that was kind enough to fax me my lesson plans. I thought it would be appropriate to send him a thank you video. Mr. McClung

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