As winter sports come to an end, it makes me think of all of our coaches and all ECA sponsors who spend many hours outside of regular school hours to work with our students! Your commitment and hard work to help further develop and make an impact on our students in this way is much appreciated! Good luck to the JH wrestling team tonight for the ACAC tournament! Good luck to our Archery Team that will be competing in the state tournament this Saturday!
Guitar projects are coming along! Mr. Hunt does a great job with design and development with students! Thank you to the Don Wood Foundation for the funding to provide new machines, upgraded flooring, tabletops, and other enhancements to the lab area!
Solid lesson today over fractions, data tables, and line plots in Ms. Denny's class! Needed knowledge and skill development for these 3rd graders!
The Raider Dome was rocking today during the Pep Rally! Go Raiders!
Enjoyed several 6th grade wax museum groups sharing about historical people! Here is one of the groups! Well done 6th graders!
It is always fun and interesting eating lunch with 2nd graders! Today, I got to witness the self named "MiniMe Recipes" crew making recipes from leftover lunch food! Very creative!
Solid reading and writing instruction today in Ms. Lieurance's 1st grade class! Using some cross curriculum - teaching about careers as she is teaching reading and writing!
English 9 with Mr. Cherry today! Solid vocab work and a relevant and practical spelling test idea, picking common misspelled words that he has been seeing in student papers! Also, reading and learning about The Odyssey! A lot of great learning going on!
Kindergarten Registration for 2024-2025 School Year!
A little Kan Jam today in PE class with Mr. Yencer! Mr. Yencer does a great job giving his students modern, relevant, and engaging activities that foster coordination, skill, and movement!
Mrs. McMillan teaching reading fluency, comprehension and sequencing to 2nd graders through learning about very relevant topics (especially for 2nd graders) on how Dum Dum Lollipops are made in their factory! Did you know 12 million Dums Dums are manufactured per day!
Enjoyed Poetry Slam today, ran and organized by Mr. Gates! Awesome experience for students being up front performing their poems! Mr. Gates does a great job coming up with creative and engaging learning activities for SW JH English students!
A little pythagorean theorem fun in Algebra today with great instruction and guidance from Mrs. Meeks!
I enjoyed Ms. Oswalt's cross curriculum activity today about Super Bowl locations! It had data work, codes, and geography, with relevant, current information! I learned that the state of Florida has hosted the most Super Bowls with 17!
Enjoyed reading to students during National Read Aloud Day! I also got the privilege to listen to Jayne Schriver, former SW elementary teacher, read her children's book that she has authored called, "Not Walter!" Former SW teachers continuing their impact on learning!
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Deep literary analysis of The Scarlet Letter today in AP Lit with Mr. Roush! Interesting!
Enjoyed watching 2nd graders in Mrs. Haigh's class acting out an ant story about who is stronger! Great strategy getting kids involved and active in their learning and reading!
Becoming Heart Heroes in the 5th grade by learning CPR!
6th grade math with Mr. Busse - Dependent and Independent variables! Well explained!
