Habit 1: Be Proactive! This is a part of the Leader in Me program, a pillar at CAST. We celebrated Spring Break right around the corner by discussing how our families can be in charge of their brain and heart!
Year: 2021
The Veterinary Assisting students and instructor Ms. Brittany Shoun at Fort Pierce Westwood Academy, the WEST Prep Magnet, scrub in to assist Dr. Wynne during surgeries! In the photos, the dog on the operating table is being spayed at WEST Prep! Level up CTE!
The Osprey Family at Oak Hammock K-8 celebrate their A-Team for Administrative Professionals Day 2021. The A-Team was showered with flowers, chocolate and words of appreciation. They were reminded, day in and day out, they make Oak Hammock K- 8 a better place to be and work. No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of others. Each of them deserved more thanks than the tokens of appreciate could ever show. The Osprey Family would like thank them for their commitment and dedication.
The St. Lucie West Centennial High School’s Navy JROTC assisted parents and soon-to-be kindergartners by escorting them to SLW Centennial High School’s auditorium. The event was held on Thursday, April 22nd from 11:00AM until 7:00PM. SLW Centennial High School was one of three venues in the Saint Lucie School District where the Kindergarten Round-up events occurred. Future kindergartners received backpacks and other school supplies to assist in their transition to students in the upcoming school year. Good luck to them all!
Treasure Coast High’s JROTC US Airforce and Criminal Justice programs hosted the Port St Lucie Police Department’s drone team! Port St. Lucie Police Officers discussed drone usage in Port St Lucie and demonstrated drone skills for students, Mr. Diego Rios, Mr. Roger Allcroft, Chief Jeffrey Barnes, and Colonel James Golden.
Oak Hammock K-8 Traditional and MySchool second grade classes had lots of fun exploring the different biomes. The students were assigned a project that was a collaboration between their classroom teacher, resource teachers and their family to focus on a specific community of vegetation and wildlife. Students had to choose an animal and research about the animal including its habitat. In media class, Ms. Lecce focused on the importance of reliable resources when researching on online. In STEAM, Ms. Flynn guided the students to discover and learn about different habitats and how to create an art piece. The students created … Read More
Samuel Gaines Academy of Emerging Technologies kindergarten students culminated their unit of study on Needs and Wants with a STEM challenge. Students listened to the book, Everything You Need to Build a Treehouse; and then drew a blueprint of a treehouse. They brainstormed the materials they would need. Then, they gathered their materials and built their treehouses. Students were told that their treehouses had to be elevated and have a way for the people to get up and down. https://youtu.be/HHO54Haee3g
NPK8 is celebrating the award winning writer, Madison Tredor! ?✍️ In case you haven’t heard, this author was just announced as the 1st place winner of the Florida Retired Educators Association 5th grade essay contest for the state! (“State of FLORIDA!”, as Maddy would add.) She will be recognized at the FREA state conference next month and wins a cash prize! Also notable, this is her teacher, Mrs. Tredor’s 6th consecutive win for St. Lucie FREA and District 9 FREA, and second state win! #NPK8risingstars Northport Is so proud!
The students in Mrs. Mitchell’s class understand subtraction as “taking apart” and “taking from” and were able to solve subtraction problems within 10. Students used bowling pins to represent numbers from the subtraction equation and solve fluently.
Samuel Gaines of Emerging Technologies 2nd graders have created their Wildly Important Goals (WIG) wall. The students are super excited to track and monitor their progress and growth towards their wildly important goals in the number of sight words read, reading fluency and iReady reading and math diagnostic scores.
CAST fifth graders in Dr. Irwin’s music class put on a rehearsal concert for kindergarten, first and second graders as they practice for their upcoming spring show. They performed “Fiesta,” “Crunchy, Crunchy, Crunchy” and “Party Rock Anthem.” We can’t wait to see them perform again!
On Saturday, April 17th, cadets participated in a car wash fundraising event at O’Reilly’s Auto Parts, who generously allowed the cadets to wash cars on their grounds. The fundraiser was very busy, and we served many customers. Everything flowed well, as we made a system of getting cars through the washing and drying stations. The cadets were broken down into groups of five, rotating into washing, drying, and sign holding stations. This cadet-led event proved to be a huge success for the program.
Weatherbee 4th Grade Mariners attended their FSA Writes Pep Rally and got pumped up for a great day of writing!
Wow, what a process! Kicking off the 2020-2021 school year, Mr. Steward, our amazing K-5 Technology teacher, pitched to the students that he wanted them to write a children’s book to see their imaginations go to work on handling the new challenges we faced this year. With his experience in having illustrated and published two children’s books, he guided them through a seven step process from concept to finalized layout. While finalizing the illustrations in the book, we had the privilege to be introduced to Mervin Jenkins from Flocabulary to help create a song for the book. This song was … Read More
Fort Pierce Central has a unique program to offer support to co-workers. The program is called Cobra Secret Friends. Co-workers are matched by drawing names with the Program Coordinator Sandra Rohn. The secret is that only the coordinator knows who the secret friends are. Once matched, group emails are exchanged so they can publicly thank their Secret Friends for little gifts, notes of encouragement, and snacks given once a week or so. The big Secret Friend reveal will be held at the end of the year. Ms. Rohn, says “it has been a fun, feel good program.” For info … Read More
First Graders at White City Elementary started a unit on living things and learned about the parts of a plant. Each student planted a seed and will observe their seed over the next couple of weeks. Hands on learning is so much fun!
Hakeem Mustfata, 6th Grade student at Oak Hammock K-8 was chosen to be a 2021 Broadcom nominee from the District for his science fair project called Potato Power. The project tested how much electricity could be produced along with the amount of time power was produced from cooked and uncooked potatoes. Hakeem’s science fair project was one of seven from the District to move on to the State’s Science Fair. Hakeem was the winner, out of 300 students, from the state of Florida, for the 2021 Broadcom MASTERS Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars, Junior Section. Congratulations … Read More
https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/4eb824df39524042a27539e15934a81d Mrs. Hutchings was honored each day by Ms. Faniel’s 2nd Grade class at West Gate K8. Thursday was Red Carpet Day for Mrs. Hutchings. We hope she will always remember how we spoke her name. Mrs. Hutchings is Marvelous, Reliable, Supportive, Happy, Understanding, Thoughtful, Caring, Helpful, Innovative, Nice, Giving and Stylish. We love our Assistant Principal.