ESOL paraprofessional at F.K. Sweet Elementary, David Morales, visits various classrooms throughout the day to assist students. His services are avilable to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. He helps to translate for parents during conferences and other school meetings. Camerino Diaz, pictured, has been working with him for several years.
The beautiful voices of the F.K.Sweet Elementary School’s choral group Sweet Sounds rang loud clear during the recent Winter Holiday Concert. Pictured with the music teacher Jan Christensen are fourth and fifth graders that practice twice weekly for concerts and other vocal events.
Students in Donna Hellums’ first grade class at F.K. Sweet Elementary celebrated the winter holidays with a pajama party and a viewing of the Polar Express. They compared and contrasted the book and the movie.
Fifth graders at Frances K. Sweet Elementary School got an in depth look inside the ear. Students enjoyed a lesson presented by Joe Mutter from Mutter’s Hearing Center on the anatomy of the ear and the benefits of taking steps now to prevent hearing loss later in life. In this picture, Mr. Mutter is showing students Allaysia Miller’s auditory canal and eardrum. Students also took hearing tests and experienced what life would be like with moderate hearing loss.
The Student Council officers and classroom representatives were all on hand to assist with students having their pictures taken with Santa at the recent Saturday morning breakfast at F.K. Sweet Elementary. The breakfast was organized by sponsor Michelle Adrian, and enjoyed by many families.
The sixth grade geography bee was held by the social studies department at Southport Middle School. Pictured here is the second place winner from the Marlins team, Jacob Wynn.
The Southport Middle School performing arts presented the Disney Play “Sleeping Beauty”. There were performances for the students during the day and for Morningside Elementary School students. Parents and community members were invited to come to the evening performances. It was a huge success with great theatrical performances done under the direction of Mary Osking. Pictured are Samantha Lucidi, left, and Katelyn Treiger preparing for their roles as Princess Aurora and Maleficent.
Santa arrives at Palm Pointe Educational Research School @ Tradition by fire truck for the annual “Breakfast with Santa” event. Students are there to greet him when he arrives and to show him where to go for the breakfast, crafts and pictures. This is a wonderful event for the families each year and this year was no exception. The food was delicious, the crafts were fun, the face painting was awesome and the pictures with Santa were great!
Bill Lloyd, ESE teacher at Palm Pointe Educational Research School @ Tradition sings holiday songs with the first grade students. He played his guitar and sang many popular holiday tunes with the kids. The students and teachers all had a joyous time.
Third grade students at Palm Pointe Educational Research School @ Tradition enjoyed a demonstration by the Pt. St. Lucie Police Department K-9 unit. Students made a connection by reading a Journeys story about a police officer and his K-9 dog.
Demi Barnett, a kindergarten student in Isabelle Brunache’s class at Weatherbee Elementary enjoyed a special moment with Santa as she received the first gift of Christmas as a part of the kindergarten’s Polar Express literacy activity. Santa arrived with the support of the St. Lucie County Fire Department complete with a police escort. Snow fell from above to complete this special moment for Weatherbee students. What a wonderful way to make literature come alive.
Twenty students were invited to attend this game based on the highest amount of sales for the Fall Fundraiser. Pictured are students Samuel McKay, Jada Dawkins, Rayahah Goodso-Stone, Corban Hampe, James Spaulding, Joshua Thibodeau, Elizabeth Korpon, Ally Opolin, Kyle Dutton, Brandon Meadows, Krystal Dakson, Antonio Williams, Joshua Villalobos, Evan Delgado and Wiley Willis
Bayshore Elementary kindergarten student Lukas Siminski gets ready for the holiday show. Lukas was dressed as an elf during Bayshore’s Rock ‘n Roll Holiday Show.
Jar’Breanna Frierson and Samuel Villalobos from Dorian Newbern’s first grade class at F.K. Sweet Elementary are busy creating their own gingerbread houses. Students were allowed to express their creativity and decorate the outside to suit their own tastes.
Bayshore Elementary School pre-K students in Greta Wester’s class had a guest reader. Students were excited when Michael J. Lannon, Superintendent of St. Lucie County Schools, stopped by to support literacy and read to the students.
Bayshore Elementary School students participated in a PBS winter raffle. Students earn jazzy cash by showing their SPOTS! They were able to purchase raffle tickets to try and win a basketball, camera, art set, ripstik skateboard or a twister game. Zachary De Aguiar (left) and Camber Adams (right) put their raffle tickets into the bags.
Bayshore Elementary School kindergarten students participated in Snowman Day. Zachary Comperchio (left) and Katheryn Arguelles (right) from Nicole Alvigi’s kindergarten class work to create a pattern necklace.
Fifth grade students at St. Lucie Elementary have been working on many science lab projects this year. Warren Wiley, Pedro Escobedo, and Salvador Leon in Leigh Bretherick’s class are shown working on an assignment using tools that represent different bird beaks and the types of food they would be able to eat.
Northport K-8 instructors are pleased to begin literary instruction in a new and fresh arena for 2012. Northport teachers Jennifer Babcock Carey and Deb Mock completed a grant to begin work on a literacy plaza, an outdoor classroom setting for Northport K-8 School. Instructor Valerie Niewieroski began work hand painting the four seasons display which will include literary quotes to inspire young students to read. The literacy plaza will be completed on January 21 and an Open House will be held on Friday, January 27, 2012. Pictured from left are instructors, Juliette Thelusma, Jill Staggs, Jennifer Gomez, Carissa Provencher, Valerie … Read More
Northport K-8 middle grades science instructor and science fair program leader, Dr. Laura Woodworth, escorted groups of students through the school science fair exhibits recently. The exhibits are a culmination of the school based science fair programming. The program is an authentic assessment of classroom learning and an excellent demonstration of student knowledge of science in action. Dr. Woodworth monitored student learning using critique charts and journaling as students considered how graphs were utilized to reveal trends in data, how to identify variables in experiments, and made suggestions for possible improvements in student research and how to better the experiment … Read More
