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Each week during the school year The Reporter spotlights activities and achievements oJ!students, faculty and staff at a different Monroe County school.
Thank you to Erin media specialist, for news from Hubbard Elementary. Next week look for news from T. G. Scott Elementary. Email school:related
news, including items for "Monroe in College; to Diane Glidewell at news@mymcr.net
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Hubbard Elementary fifth graders had the opportunity to visit High Falls State Park to learn about dams as part of their ongoing Project Based Learning Project. Students are designing
methods to help the erosion problem on the fifth grade playground. The purpose of the field trip was to determine if building a dam would be a viable option to help the playground.
Hubbard takes 1st at Olympiad
Students from all Disease Detectives to Bellwin, Gavin Gaylord,
three Monroe County Water Rockets, students Heather Hulsey,
elementary schools had fun while showing Corey Mixon, Lawson
competed in the annual off what they've learned Newsome, and Annsley
district Elementary during this and previ-Robinson; fourth grad-
Science Olympiad (ESO) ous ESO seasons, ers Jayla Hampton,
competition Friday, Hubbard Elementary's Autumn Smith, Penn
Feb. 23 at Hubbard ESO team was excited Tyler, and Ariana
Elementary. to bring home the first Watts; and fifth grad-
Students competed place trophy for the sec- ers Jaiden Brown, Luke
in a range of science, ond year in a row? TheCantrell, Olivia Elder,
engineering, and math- team (pictured) con- Megan Grant, Andrew
ematics events. From sists of third gradersMixon, Akari Traylor,
Bridge Building to Harrison Bell, Graysonand Trenton Whitten.
Last week in the
Hubbard Med a Center,
students investigated
human impact on our
environment. Classes
looked at Dr. Seuss' story
' Phe Loraf' and the non-
fiction text "Deepwater
Horizon," which intro-
duced students to the
man-made disaster of the
explosion of the oil rig
Deepwater Horizon in the
Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Students discussed
problems that occured
surrounding the explo-
sion, including how to
stop the oil from flowing
into the ocean and how
to clean up the oil that
spilled in the ocean and
on the beaches.
After reading about the
event, students took a
first-hand look at what
happens when oil spills
in water. Students used a
combination of vegetable
oil and cocoa to simulate
the crude oil. Next, they
poured the oil into water Students learned that
and noticed that the oil the Deepwater Horizon
spread and floated on the disaster had many nega-
water. Finally students tive impacts on our envi-
discussed ways to clean ronment, but that oil rig
the oily problem, designers learned many
Students were amazed valuable lessons through
to see how the oil dis- the experience. Hopefully
persed when Dawn future rig explosions will
detergent was added be prevented as a results
to the oily mixture, of their findings.
Mrs. DeMichiel's first grade
class has worked hard learn-
ing about healthy plants and
ways to grow healthy foods
in all seasons. We made prototypes for green-
houses, and we started to build a real greenhouse
with plastic bottles and PVC pipe. Thank you
to Georgia Farm Bureau for helping us buy the
materials. We appreciate your help!
As we were growing our plants, we also kept
plant journals. Our class made an iMovie that
shows how tall our plants grew. We measured the
plants using cubes. The tallest plant in our class
grew to 33 cubes tall.
Everyone got to plant a seed and take care of his
or her plant. We also dissected lima beans to see
the parts inside of a seed. We tested plants to see
what they need to grow. The plants that did not
get sunlight, air, water, or soil did not grow. This
has been a fun learning project!
Families gathered
Tuesday evening at
Hubbard Elementary
School to engage in a
number of activities for
the schools 2nd Annual
STEM family night. Sec-
ond graders focused
on renewable energy
by designing a water
wheel out of the plates,
spoons and a yard
of tape.This allowed
students to make con-
nections and explore
rather than learning
from memorization.
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HES fourth graders have con-
tinued to use the engineering
design process to work on their
PBL (Project Based Learning).
We want to"change"the band
room by adding sound panels
to make a more positive impact
on the learning environment.
We are using scale models of
the band room to design and
test mini sound panels. Lots of
measuring, collaborating, plan-
ning and tons of fun are going
on over here!
Hubbard Elementary Student of the Week is Trenton Whitten.Trenton is a 5th
grader. He currently leads all 5th graders in Accelerated Reader points with 249.8
points.
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