Spring Musical: "Doo Wop Wed Widing Hood"

The Middle School Musical:

Mrs. Mattoon directed another fun and entertaining musical with her 7th and 8th grade Drama students, featuring the 6th graders as the chorus. Here are some photos from the evening performance.


The Boys:

The Girls:

Mrs. Mattoon and the 7th & 8th Grade Cast:

Easter 2012

Our 6th grade Easter Celebration:
Easter Egg Hunt and Sugar Cookie Decorating

He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!

The Easter Egg Hunt

All lined up! Ready to hunt for Easter eggs :)

Waiting patiently and listening to directions :)

Hmm...do you think they'll be able to find them? ;)

How many eggs are you allowed to find??? 5!!!!!

Almost ready...

And...They're off!!!

We used the Kindergarten Playground for the Egg Hunt :)

Down the slide! Weeeeee!

Mrs. Schanen's Sub, Mr. Kosick, reminding the 6th graders they should only find FIVE eggs each!

 Reliving their Kindergarten days...LOL

Easter Cookie Decorating Party!!!!

Ready for a sugar rush! :)

Getting creative with frosting and sprinkles!

Don't they look thrilled that I am taking their picture? ;)

Happy Easter!! Time to enjoy Easter Break!

Easter Sunday: Mr. & Mrs. Koehnke with niece, Faye, and nephew, Graeme (Mr. McFerran's kids)

Nonvascular Plant Demonstration 2012

Within the Plant Kingdom a plant is either classified as a Vascular Plant or a Nonvascular Plant. The majority of plants on Earth fall into the Vascular Plant section. Why might this be? The 6th grade Scientists took a look at this to determine why there are more Vascular Plants than there are Nonvascular Plants. One demonstration that helped with their research was the "Nonvascular Plant Demonstration." Check out our pictures!

SO Exciting ;)

In the end, we found that the reason there are more Vascular Plants on Earth is because Vascular Plants are better suited for living on land. They contain vascular tissue (true roots, stems, and leaves) that help to support the plant and efficiently pass nuturients and water throughout the plant body. In our demonstration we found that our "Nonvascular Plant" (the rolled paper towel) took quite awhile to spread the water/nutrients throughout the plant.

Worm Dissection 2012

After studying "Wormy" Facts and doing several lead-up activities, each 6th grader was able to dissect a worm with a lab partner. Mr. Meier, the 8th grade Science teacher made the 8th grade Science Lab available, so the 6th graders could have the full experience. The day went smoothly and successfully thanks to several parent/grandparent volunteers! A special thanks goes to Mrs. Pulasky, Mrs. DiCarlo, Mrs. Halahan, Mr. McCrumn, Mrs. Hornick, Mrs. Swanson, and Mrs. Haaland. Thank you so much for your help with Lab set/clean-up and supervision!

Enjoy the pictures!!

6A Scientists:

Very Focused! :)

Happy Scientists

6B Scientists:

 Gillian and Autum identifying the Posterior End of the Worm. Nice work, ladies!

Rylan's the man! He dissected his worm all on his own! (His lab partner was absent)

Now THAT'S precision! Check out those organs!!!

Jake's group...future surgeon's? I think so!!!



 Nadia and Mandi getting quizzed on worm anatomy by Mrs. Koehnke :)

6C Scientists:

Removing the pharynx with tweezers...looking for the little brain!

 Mini Mouse came for our dissection ;)

These three were GOOD! Mrs. Koehnke couldn't stump them AT ALL when they were asked to identify and point out all of the worm anatomy!