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(11/7) 🎨 Students in Mrs. Stanford’s art classes explored the world of watercolor this week! They experimented with different techniques to blend colors, create texture, and bring their creative visions to life.

(11/7) In this engaging PE and STEM combination activity, students participated in “Jump the River.” Using two jump ropes to represent a river, the teacher set the scene: students lived in a village and needed to cross the river each day to gather food. Each “night,” a flood made the river wider, challenging the students to jump farther to reach safety. Eventually, the river became too wide for anyone to cross.
At that point, the activity shifted to a STEM challenge. Students worked in groups on poster paper to brainstorm and design creative solutions for how their village could still cross the river—such as building bridges, boats, or other inventions. This activity blended physical movement with problem-solving, teamwork, and engineering design thinking.

(11/6) 🇺🇸🖋️ Our gifted students have been busy researching George Washington — the first U.S. president and a true leader in American history! They were fascinated to learn that he lived to be 67 years old. What a great way to connect curiosity, history, and discovery in the classroom! That's one fact they won't soon forget! 💡📚

(11/6) This week, Ms. Spicer's students have been studying how light travels. They talked about light absorption, reflection, and refraction. Today, they used flashlights and traced reflections of different objects. They then took their traced reflections and turned them into superheros or villians and wrote a narrative story about their heroes using science vocabulary terms.

(11/4) 📚 During library, DT Cox students traveled back in time to the olden days (a.k.a. before Google existed 😱) and were introduced to... Encyclopedias!
After learning how these “big book search engines” worked, our students put their new skills to the test by completing a research project using only encyclopedias. No Wi-Fi, no tabs, just good old-fashioned page-turning. And guess what? They rocked it! 📖✨

(11/3) Third graders had a slam-dunk of a day on their field trip to Oxford, MS! 🏀💥 They cheered on the Lady Rebs as they brought home a big WIN! 🎉📣 The energy was high, the smiles were huge, and the memories made were rebel-utionary! ❤️💙 Hotty Toddy!

(10/31) Mrs. Tutor's class had a fantastic time with many games such as eyeball obstacle relay, wrap the mummy, ghost soup, spider race, tic-tac-toe, cauldron stack, and bat writing!

(10/31) Our staff and students had the best day dressing up in their costumes, playing games, and celebrating together — after finishing a little schoolwork first, of course! 😉 What a fun way to wrap up an awesome Red Ribbon Week! ❤️🎃

(10/31) Mrs. Steele’s classes made “pumpkin” catapults and their own edible version of “Spookley the Square Pumpkin” to celebrate Halloween. 🎃

(10/31) Mrs. Heatherly's fourth graders have been studying geometry. As an enrichment activity, the students used geometry terms to write their names.