Where does the water go? that is the question that I asked my students Monday when we started our lesson about transpiration. We water, water, and water plants all the time, but what happens to the water? We decided to answer this question by using celery. Day 1 – Weight the celeryStudents were able to…

….everyone else is doing it! In my graduate classes the topic of technology in the classroom has presented itself numerous times in the past two weeks. The classes I am taking are educational research and educational psychology courses. Both of these classes are offered as a “hybrid class”, meaning that one week we meet online…

Ah….yes, our Faculty Follies, what you all have been waiting for. This is an event in which teachers get the “opportunity” to show how shameless they can be in order to motivate/entertain our students. The large ‘woman’ above is a perfect example of this. That is me as Cher…what? Can’t see it? Nevertheless, below are…

As apart of our celebration for our annual MAP testing, we held assemblies all day Friday for our “Rock the MAP Day”. This included performances from students from our high school and from our primary building. Below are a few highlight from Friday’s action. Performance by students from the high school Performance by students from…

Friday was a busy day…..after all the assemblies we decided to blow off a little steam using Diet Coke, Mentos, and a Steve Spangler Geyser Tube….and now, your moment of Zen…. Mr. McClung

On Friday we hosted a concert to celebrate the beginning of MAP testing. Our performing guest was Benjamin Del Shreve from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Below are some highlights from Friday’s concert. Please excuse my sound quality. What a way to prepare for the MAP, the students absolutely loved the performance and from talking to the band…

On Friday we concluded our propaganda unit in communication arts. For the past two weeks we have been reading the book Number the Stars, and studying how propaganda was used to deceive a nation and turn the Jewish population into the enemy of Germany. As a part of this unit, students were asked to reproduce…

That’s right, Throw Down Thursday! After presenting my students with the get up and get moving lesson yesterday….by the way, thank you everyone for your insight on this post…I decided to take the classroom dancing one step further. Today I introduced Throw down Thursday to my students. This is very similar to want we did…

Today we honored our Terrific Tigers for the month of March. Terrific Tiger is an award that is given out by homeroom teachers to a student they feel as excelled in the school setting; this can be for academics, behavior, effort, or just for being a caring individual. Sixth grade Terrific Tiger Awards went to…

The past two days we have continued work on our propaganda posters. Students have been using a two resources to help complete this project; the USHMM Website and a translation site (for German to English) have been used for our projects. Above is a picture of Ben tracing his picture of Hitler for his propaganda…