Second grade students at WDE explored the three states of matter using balloons. The balloons represented the molecules found in matter. Submitted by Jessica Dawkins.
Members of the Freeport High School Key Club braved the rain showers and participated in the Ocean Conservancy International Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, September 17th. Submitted by Patty Woodard.
Many of our third-graders were TV stars last week during the “Reading Rally & Book Giveaway” to celebrate the importance of “reading on grade level.” The District has partnered with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and St. Joe Community Foundation – and Butler is the pilot launch school. A subset of third-graders will receive intensive special reading assistance this year in what is a nationally acclaimed, STEM-focused program. Check out the video about why reading is so important in third grade, and years prior. We were honored to have Superintendent Anderson come join the fun --- and Thank You to @ChoctawhatcheeElectricCooperative,Inc. and @KellyAnne and so many local businesses involved in having ALL of our 210 third-graders excited about reading this year!
The Freeport Middle School Art Department, led by Kendra Peloquin, created collaborative multi-media flags to hang in the school in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11/01. The students learned to reflect social and political conditions in their art. Submitted by Chelsea Ellison.
Youth Leadership classes from three high schools in Walton County participated in the Florida Farm Bureau Speech Contest held at Freeport High School on 9/7/2016. Each student presented a 5 minute speech on "What is an Unmanned Aerial System and how can it be used to impact agriculture?" Freeport High School was represented by Martha Freeman, Wendy McCormick, and Kathryn Dier. South Walton High School was represented by Greg Garrett, Matt Garrett, and Brynn Touchstone. Walton High School was represented by LaTayia Gregg, Evan Cowie, and Jacob Alford. Submitted by Donna Honish with picture provided by Christy English.
Ms. Mills class participated in an AIMS activity where they launched rockets…
Stomp rockets is a great hands-on activity that concluded our lessons on Earth and Space. In this lessons the students use the scientific method to hypothesize, conduct the experiment, analyze the results, draw conclusions and report results. They also reflected on how they could have changed or improved the experiment. The discussed and analyzed design aspects, environmental factors and other things that could change the results. In addition to the science aspect students used a real life number line to decipher their results and estimate their final distances based on where their rockets landed and how close or far they were from the positions that were marked. Submitted by Darlene Paul.
Mossy Head School would like to recognize our students who achieved PERFECT scores on FSA Math. Congratulations to Rinoa Callahan and Levi Elmore on a job well done! Submitted by Elizabeth Gaither.
