FHS Seniors Return to Friday Night Lights!
August 22, 2019
FHS Seniors return to Friday Night Lights, starting with the senior breakfast and ending with a win at home!
FHS Seniors return to Friday Night Lights, starting with the senior breakfast and ending with a win at home!
Students in Gary Driver's new Introduction to Robotics class began the year with an engineering challenge. Students were given only 3 sheets of paper and asked to design a structure to support as much weight as possible. This is the inaugural school year for the robotics program at Freeport High School and we are excited to see it grow and succeed.
Submitted by Brian Michie
Congratulations to the following students who earned a level 5 on the biology EOC exam!
Jhacobe Adkison
MacKinnon Campbell-Work
Sierra Carroll
Emily Casey
Konnor Colvin
Mika Crowder
Lillian Feitsma
Anna Graham
Joseph Grgurich
Layla Hagan
Wilmer Hall
Chasity Kemp
Autumn King
Ming Liu
Daniel McCarthy
Mallory Meredith
Haleigh Permenter
Austyn Taylor
Aden Tidwell
Not pictured - Noel Dahl and Makayla Reed
Mrs. Gaby Brown's seventh grade AVID students at Walton Middle School have been learning the importance of social skills and have been practicing solid handshakes and confident introductions all around campus. AVID students self-assuredly walk up to faculty and staff members, introduce themselves as AVID students, offer a firm handshake, make good eye contact, and speak loudly enough to be heard. Bright, successful futures undoubtedly await these well-prepared WMS AVID students.
Headline picture: Peyton Seay confidently introduces himself to his ELA teacher, Mrs. McLaney, who warmly returns his handshake.
Picture #2--Before class starts, Sophia Parker greets Mrs. Ahumada with a kind introduction, handshake, and smile.
Ms. Tara Manson, WMS seventh grade ELA teacher, implemented strategies she learned at EPIC day during pre-planning with her students. To introduce seventh grade writing expectations, Ms. Manson led students in a timed "honeycomb harvest," instructing students to link writing-related word relationships however they deemed appropriate, as long as they could defend their rationales. All students eagerly participated in the engaging activity until Ms. Manson called "time's up!" In the next step, students drew a large four quadrant "placemat" with an oval in the center. Ms. Manson assigned each student a quadrant and asked them to answer the question, "How do writers create a well-written essay?" Many students linked their written ideas to the terms they explored previously in the honeycomb harvest. After writing in their individual quadrants, group members collected similarities between their thoughts and added them to the center oval, then shared out to the class. The lesson served as an excellent formative assessment for Ms. Manson, as she was able to assess her new students' prior knowledge about writing. Ms. Manson simply served as a learning facilitator while students did the heavy lifting of this lesson, which required them to write, inquire, collaborate, and organize (all elements of WICOR). Clearly, Ms. Manson's professional learning transferred to productive engagement for her seventh grade Warriors.
Students provide rationales for their ideas about commonalities between terms in a formative assessment activity
Students jot down their individual thoughts about what it takes to write a well-written essay.
This week, the FMS PE department taught a cross-curricular lesson using "12 powerful words" by tying ELA with PE standards in the daily lessons of PE. Pictured are students solving word problems on a short quiz using 6 of the 12 Powerful words such Infer, Analyze, and Describe
MSE students celebrated along with Mrs. Neale and Mr. Johnson as they discovered which HOUSE they will belong to. Every staff member and student at Maude Saunders will join the House of Respect, House of Integrity, House of Grit, House of Courage, or House of Leadership. They will all pop a balloon next Friday to find out which HOUSE they will join!
Submitted by Krissy Spence
Bay School welcomes our Bay Explorers to meet the teacher before their first day of school. It was a wonderful morning filled with lots of smiles and excitement!