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Endeavour Elementary Principal Jodi Bongard and office staff truly brought to life the tale of Jodi-locks—er, Goldilocks—and the Three Bears for students on Halloween.
Clark Elementary teacher Liza Rickey and two of her students spoke at the Issaquah Schools Foundation (ISF) annual luncheon in October about how microscopes provided through an ISF grant have revolutionized science lessons.
Picture by Krista Mui
Bob, a great horned owl, recently visited fourth graders in Sydney Herzberg’s classroom at Sunset Elementary. His handler from the Woodland Park Zoo’s raptor education program shared all kinds of facts about his unique anatomy and skills. For instance, his ears are at different levels beside his face so he is not only able to identify which side a sound is coming from but also from what depth.
Bob’s visit was the culmination of many owl-themed lessons, including reading owl-centered fiction and nonfiction, writing five-paragraph essays about specific owl species, studying local forests, investigating owl pellets, creating owl PowerPoint presentations, singing owl chants, and making owl art.
That’s an owl-fully lot of these magnificent birds!
The Beaver Lake Middle School Bulldogs got a little Spartan during a “tailgate” barbecue celebration to build community spirit before the homecoming football game at their high school, Skyline. About six hundred people came to eat—hamburgers, garden burgers, chicken burgers, chips, and ice cream—and play games and dance under the DJ’s guidance.
All that pre-game fanfare did the trick: Skyline won!
Get your motor running!
Tiger Mountain Community High School recently held its first annual hot rod show, and classic car collectors turned out to show off their vehicles and offer advice to students—from what it takes to complete a meticulous project (such as a car restoration) to how to obtain proper insurance to what it means to set and achieve goals in life.
The stars of the day included an antique Rolls Royce, Chevy Impala, Thunderbird, and even a tricked-out VW Beetle.
“Did you survive?” was the question of the day as Newcastle Elementary fourth graders learned about gravity and air properties by each dropping an egg three stories to pavement below. If the student had designed a successful package—from bubble wrap, hollowed-out bread, balloons, or anything else they could think of—the egg “survived.” If not, well, things got a little stickier!
Pictures by Robin Ryan and Sara Niegowski
Endeavour “super sleuths” in Lorre Mark’s MERLIN classroom started the year off with a carefully orchestrated mystery: Who was responsible for leaving behind the remains of a camp fire near their school? While digging up some answers, they ended up finding more than they first bargained for—clues like feathers, seashells, and fossils in each layer of dirt that revealed the history the surrounding area. When the investigation was over, the students had solid theories about what happened on that piece of land thousands and even millions of years ago.
Board member Connie Fletcher testifies at the state Legislature’s joint task force on basic education finance in Olympia on September 10.
The task force was created to ensure that school funding formulas "keep pace with evolving educational practices and increasing state and federal requirements so that all schools have the resources they need to help give all students the opportunity to be fully prepared to compete in a global economy."