Girls will have basketball tryouts this Thursday and Friday after school until 4.
Our 8th grade AVID elective students spoke about the AVID elective and showed parents their binders and planners. All middle school students should be bringing their binder to school and home each day.
8th graders have an opportunity to audition for PSA. Auditions are Oct. 30
This week students started the second unit within our 7 Mindsets curriculum - Passion First!
Ask your student their passion and how are you letting them play with it.
Pick a site.
Register by next Friday 9/20.
This week we are highlighting our K-4 music teacher Mrs. N. Fauser.
Our 6-8 AVID elective students had the privilege of morning
Listening to some amazing, energetic, and inspiring community leaders yesterday. Former graduates of Peoria Public Schools, telling them that college is the endpoint!
Kindergarten students learn about people in the community that help take care animals. Ms. Walker, owner of River Kitty Cafe talks about how to properly take care of cats.
Third grade students created little baggies demonstrating the water cycle. We used this to and related it to sequence of events in ELA class.
This week with 8th grade and 1st grade, it was guess that 90's items. We saw tape recorders, the first cell phone, bop it, and even had to guess what a dial up modem was. Guesses were out of this century!
Attendance last week was under 90%. Our goal is 95% or better. :-)
Check out this awesome opportunity for kids grades K-4.
4th graders completed their first science lab by creating a model car, that we are going to use to learn about force. They are going to build and test different propulsion methods and then they will build a way to protect an egg that will ride in the car. The final test will be a collision test with a real egg in the car.
School is NOT in session today Sept. 2, 2024!
Sixth grade students in Mrs. Goldrings’ classes worked cooperatively in a STEM activity called “Can You Save Fred?". This activity helped encourage teamwork, resilience , and problem solving to help Fred the worm get back into his boat after it capsizes and he can't reach his life preserver.
This week we are highlighting our very own 8th grade ELA teacher Mrs. Buneta. She has been at LK8 for 7 years and truly loves it.
Student council representatives took the day today to practice handing out fidgets and supplies to those students who earned dojo points! Students earn dojo points on Classdojo for good behavior, conduct, and respect. Way to go #Mustangs and way to go Student Council!
Our annual AVID induction night was filled with WICOR strategies and our middle school avid elective students were inducted. #ThisisAVID #AVIDimpact
Mrs. Wilkinsons practiced the steps of the scientific method by designing paper airplanes and seeing what wing design flew the farthest.
Our SWS students had so much fun with their drums!! It was an fantastic time! :)
