Huron High School
For four years, Brandi Fitzgerald, who teaches math at Huron High School, has had the privilege of getting to know her 18 seniors (shown at right).
Every four years, the teachers at Huron High School have to say “good-bye” to their homeroom students that they have watched grow. They get to become “school parents” to them and even though when they are freshman and teachers may want to pull their hair out, by the time they are seniors, they are never ready to see them leave.
In these four years, Fitzgerald said her homeroom has had many struggles, but also many triumphs.
This year, each day ends with homeroom, and Fitzgerald said students have begun making a list of “lasts.” The last homecoming, last birthdays in school, last Christmas party, and the list will keep going on.
There are many things she wants to say to them, but the two most important things come down to “Thank you” and “I am so proud of you.”
Most of all, she just wants them to know how proud they make her and she cannot wait to see all the amazing things they are going to do in the future. They truly were the “Perfect Fit(z).”
Submitted by Brandi Fitzgerald
Washington 4-5 Center
The fifth graders here at the Washington 4-5 Centerhave been learning about ecosystems in Science. They have learned that an ecosystem is a complex web that includes populations, communities, competition, symbiosis, one way relationships, and parasites that all work together to form an ecosystem. They are also learning how communities change when you take out or add a species that will change the community.
In Reading, the scholars are reading the book, “Number the Stars.” The students are reading about a young girl named Annemarie who lives in Denmark during the German Occupancy during World War II. Annemarie has to face the German soldiers and make decisions on how she can help her Jewish friend, Ellen, escape to Sweden. The scholars love this book and if you are looking for a good book to read, check it out!
Submitted by David Westby
Fourth grade scholars in Linda Halter’s class at the Washington 4-5 Center have been hard at work. They’ve been learning that factual material written in story form is referred to as expository text. This type of text usually includes “features” such as pictures, captions, graphs, etc., to help the reader learn additional information. After reading, students focus on finding the main idea and important details.
Place value, reading and writing numbers to millions, rounding, and comparing larger numbers have been the topics for Math.
Social Studies time has been spent studying geography skills. Scholars have become familiar with vocabulary words such as continents, oceans, prime meridian, equator, latitude, longitude, and hemispheres. They have discovered how the United States is divided into five separate regions, each having unique characteristics.
Submitted by Linda Halter
