Civil War Projects

We have been learning about the Civil War for the past couple of weeks. Now we are starting projects on a topic we choose and how it affected the war.  

Science Fair Update

Students have come up with topics, and testable questions for the science fair.

See You at Harry's

Students have been reading the book See You at Harry's during SST, and in April the author, Jo Knowles, is coming to visit.

Winter Festival!

On the last day of school before winter break, team Sirius celebrated by having a winter festival!  This meant that we were able to wear pajamas, were put into different groups (with friends usually), and rotated through all of the rooms with fun activities in the first half of the day.  In the second half we had an all team meeting and watched a movie or hung out.

Dog Star Drama

Once a month at our all team meeting, a few students volunteer to put on a play.  We call this "Dog Star Drama".  This past month 5 sirius students took on this commitment and performed a play called The Battle of Song.  This is a short play described as A finished Tale of Magic.  

Student of the Month

    Every month at our all team meeting we choose a student of the month.  A student is chosen based on his/her actions and impacts on our community.  SIRIUS is an acronym standing for, Spirit Imagination Responsibility Introspection Ubuntu Service.  This month Sadie was chosen as our student of the month because of her actions.  Congratulations!

Sirius Student of the Month

Every month on Team Sirius we choose a student of the month. We choose them by finding the student who best displays the Sirius qualities, which are Spirit, Introspection, Responsibility, Imagination, Ubuntu ( I am because we are), and Service. The student is announced monthly at the "All Team Meeting" and then the dog mascot, "Star" will live in the winner's TA (Teacher Advisory) for the rest of the month.

Cell Models

In science class, students created cell models using Scratch for a few weeks.

Dog Star Drama

Every month at our all-team meeting, we put on a play. We call it "Dog Star Drama." This month students volunteered to put on a performance of  the Borrowers.

SST's

Every Tuesday through Thursday we have SST (Students Support Time), there are many groups working on many different things. These groups can range from math games to free write, the groups are for whatever the teacher believes the student may need some help on. Each teacher has their own SST, then there are extension SST's, ike math games with Ronda, Math strategies with Mr.Hinds, YWP (Young Writers Project)with one of the Foreign Language teachers, or silent reading with Mrs.Chabot.