Tuesday marks the day of the Mexican Holiday Cinco de Mayo. The “fifth of May” is a regional holiday that is celebrated primaryly in the state of Puebla. The holiday mmemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio…

On Friday sixth grade students paired up with third grade students from Mrs. Polzer’s class during their reading classes. Third graders were asked to read their selected book while the big kids listened and provided correction when appropriate. This proved to be a fantastic exercise. Not only did the third grade students get the opportunity…

At last! We received our package we have been expecting from Mr. Lamshed of Australia. After a conversation with Mr. Lamshed last month, our class begin research of the popular sport of Australian Rules Football. Pleased with our efforts, Mr. Lamshed prepared a care package containing team photos, stickers, lanyards, and our own official Aussie…

No matter if you are 7 or 70, everyone has a “team”. You know that team that you have followed since you were a kid, or maybe a team that you remember watching your with your parents on TV growing up. It could be local high school team, the team of your former college, or…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…