School Notebook: Mount, Minnesauke Kids Keep Busy

W.S. Mount Students Go to the Moon and Back. Students got the chance the experience “Moon, Mars and Beyond,” an interdisciplinary learning "e-mission" conducted by the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University via videoconference. The idea was to locate and rescue a lost spaceship orbiting a planet; students worked in teams to solve mathematical questions that led to the ultimate solution. “The e-missions are wonderful hands-on opportunities in which the students can apply the material they read in their textbooks to a real-world event,” teacher Linda Earls said.

Minnesauke Goes Under the Big Top. The National Circus Project visited the school to conduct workshops for physical education classes – its 20th such activity at Minnesauke courtesy of the school's PTA. Students in all grades spent a week learning various circus tricks from trained circus performers and performed them for an audience of family and friends.

SACC Kids Crafts Take Them Around the World. Students in the SACC program at Minnesauke completed crafts from 10 countries in their project “Passports Around the World.” Each craft – such as miniature wooden figures
resembling the Queen’s Guard from Great Britain, edible replicas of France’s Eiffel Tower, and colorful Faberge eggs from Russia – got them a stamp in their "passports." “While working on the exhibit, each day the students arrived eager to find out what country we would be learning about,” said Marie Boettcher, Minnesauke’s SACC supervisor.

Students Get Visit from Harlem Wizards Star. Big J from the Harlem Wizards visited Minnesauke students to talk about healthy eating and demonstrate tricks from their famous basketball show as a preview to the Wizards' benefit event on Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m.

100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days. A hundred acts of kindness: that's what Minnesauke first-graders accomplished to celebrate the 100th day of school. Students in the school also celebrated the 100th day with a variety of literary, mathematical and character education activities, such as making projects out of 100 items and completing writing and art projects imagining what it would be like to be 100 years old.