Senator Jimmy Higdon recently spoke with 5^th grade students at Washington County Elementary School. Students learned additional information about the three branches
 of government and the constitution.

Polar Express Night at North Washington

Students in Mrs. Burkhead’s Contemporary Literature class have been reading The Glass Castle along with an English class from Marion County High School.  The two classes discuss the book by chatting on-line.  The WCHS class participated in a Chat with Marion County’s AP English in December when both groups read The Kite Runner.   Plans are to expand the project by engaging in a video-conference so all the students can see each other as they discuss the novel.

WCES 2nd grade teacher Mrs. T. Thomas has her class using  Kagan strategies teachers learned during the Professional Development.  

 In "Quiz-Quiz-Trade" students pair up to quiz each other on identifying the common nouns in a sentence.  Partners coach and praise each other, trade cards, and then move on to another partner.  Students completed a sentence editing activity using the Rally Coach strategy.  Partners take turns reading and writing their answer as the other partner checks, coaches, and praises. 

Mrs. McInturf's class station activities focusing on Triangle Relationships
 

WCHS: Mrs. Mcinturf

LOGIC STATIONS            

 Station 1: "Review Card Game" revolving around the concepts of parallel lines and special angles such as...corresponding, alternate interior, alternate exterior, consecutive interior, consecutive exterior, vertical angles and linear pairs. (peer tutoring)
 

Station 2: "Stories with Holes" where students were given various stories where pertinent info was left out and they had to fill in the gaps (first written then orally).

Station 3: "Sideways Math" -- students are given an arithmetic problem (+ - *) where each digit has been replaced with letters & they must use deductive reasoning to figure out what digit each letter represents. (students start out thinking individually, then share their ideas as a group to solve the problem).

 Station 4: "Mystery" -- given a sketch of a crime scene and one paragraph of info, students deduce "who-dun-it". (Each works individually to come up with a scenario, then they take turns discussing/sharing as a group.)

 Station 5: "Logic Squares" -- students are given limited info (such as a list of names and a list of pets) and they form a grid (logic square) in which to organize this info so they can solve/deduce which pet belonged to who...etc. (think individually then come to a consensus as a group.)

 Station 6: "Logic Line-ups" (Kagan)  where students are given pictures of items and several different scenarios as to how they are arranged/lined up.  Students take turn reading clues while a different students solves the line-up.

 *Each student turns in a paper showing/documenting their contribution at each station--accountability.