Paper Pots

How do you turn shreds of newspaper and water into a fundraiser? Well just ask the Garden Club at Veterans Elementary School. Last Wednesday the group set out to make paper pots by forming the water soaked newspaper shreds into cup molds. Under the direction of Susan...

A Time to Plant

Orange, green and purple. Yes, they are colors in a rainbow but they are also colored varieties of cauliflower- according to one 3rd grader at Gulfside Elementary School. She was one of 13 third graders in Mr. Ken Leonard’s class who had their pick of what to plant in...

8th Graders Jingle to Universal Studios

Some jogged and some walked and some even brought basketballs to bounce while completing laps on the track at Thomas E. Weightman Middle School on December 17th. No, it wasn’t during PE class but all in an effort to raise money for their 8th grade class trip to go to...

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic. . . and Composting

Subjects in elementary school generally cover the three R’s: reading, writing and arithmetic. But last Friday at New River Elementary School, one group of students learned quite a bit on the subject of composting. Ms. Dinwiddie and Ms. Sellers, who are both first...

From the Cafeteria to the Classroom

You might expect to find Amanda Nash in the cafeteria at Lake Myrtle Elementary School but how about in a second and fourth grade classroom teaching on wellness topics like nutrition? Well that is exactly where Nash found herself on November 21st when she took part in...