Many thanks go out to the PTO for sponsoring Fairview Middle’s last Literacy Field Trip of forty students to Books a Million.  The PTO donated $5.00 to each student who posted three online book reports and handed in a weekly reading log each week for a term of eight weeks.  The bookstore manager, also gave a 20 percent discount on each book sold, so many of the students purchased stacks of books to read over the summer.

Tracy Vaughn’s , Barbara Hall’s, and Pat Gipson’s sixth grade social studies classes have been and are working on various projects.  These projects include a World History Timeline where the students are to choose a specific number of historical events – dating from 50,000 B.C. to present – and put those events in order on a timeline.  The students are then to draw pictures, use clip art, or internet pictures to illustrate the events. The students have also been working on Newspaper Scavenger Hunts.  The students are given a set of 4 specific objects to find – relating to Social Studies and/or Geography.  Using a newspaper, the students are to find pictures or words that illustrate or describe the objects.

Elizabeth Reid’s sixth grade science students are studying plate techtonics.  They are learning the three kinds of plate boundaries, the relationship between the plates and continental drift, and how convection currents account for plate movement.  In addition, they will study the origins of volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains.

Melinda Easterling’s math students in sixth grade are problem solving-using the theme of the Olympics.  They are using math concepts learned this year to make charts and graphs, and to measure such things as distances from the current Olympics site to former Olympics sites.