Art Contest Winner
Congratulations to John Rogacki for placing in the Kid's
Guide Cover Art Contest. John's picture was selected
for inclusion in the coupon section of the Winter/Spring
2010 book. John used pastels to draw a two sided tree,
one side for spring and the other side for winter.
Picture above: Mrs. Crump presented John with his
Artistic Achievement Award from the Kid's Guide
Publisher.
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The Art of the “Booktalk”
Fifth graders at Trinity Academy designed
“placemats” with talking point items to facilitate their
culminating activity in their novel studies program. The
students read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and discussed
the novel’s theme, character traits, and story events
that had an impact on the student as a reader of this novel
about a young boy’s courage and survival when facing the
unexpected.
Students discussed lessons to be learned in
their own life from this story and talked about the
interesting usage of new (or previously known) vocabulary
words and their meaning and impact to the story line.
Students spoke about their favorite part of
the novel and told why it had meaning for them. Students
will culminate their novel study by an oral presentation of
their version of either: a different ending for the
novel, Hatchet, or their idea for a story
sequel to this exciting novel.
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6th Grade Science
What a creative group 6th graders were
this month in the science lab. Each student began
their creation modeling either a plant or animal cell.
Various household items were used to represent different
cell parts (especially lots of leftover Halloween
candy). This project completed their study of
Cells.. The Units of Life. It was a fun hands-on
learning experience.
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The 6th, 7th and 8th grades are using a website we call Trinitypedia for
project resources and will be publishing some of their work there.
Parents who would like to access the site may contact
Mrs. Fiore for
instructions and the
password.
