Read Across America Day was celebrated in our schools this week on Monday, March 3. This day is a celebration of reading in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Many schools had literacy celebrations happening all week long.

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In response to many requests by teachers across all grade levels about how to increase their knowledge of teaching literacy, Mr. Shoemaker is currently working with East Stroudsburg University to begin a cohort of E.A.S.D. teachers in E.S.U’s Reading Specialist Certification program. The courses would be held on site here in the district to make it easier for teachers to attend. More details will follow soon!

READ ACROSS AMERICA

News from Team 7-6 

Mr. Parrish’s classes are writing slave diaries.  Mrs. D’s classes are studying protists.   Ms. Barber’s classes have just finished writing persuasive essays.  Mr. Pinto’s classes are finally getting ready for the PSSA in Math.  Mrs. McColgan’s classes are improving their reading skills.

Nine Odyssey of the Mind teams from Easton schools will present their solutions this Saturday, March 8th at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional Tournament at Pennridge High School in Perkasie. We are fortunate to have outstanding parent and teacher coaches who have facilitated their team's work on the long-term problem and also in spontaneous problem solving. Student teams have worked many hours since the fall on their 8-minute performances and have learned critical thinking and problem-solving, creativity and "thinking outside the box," and teamwork. They have also learned planning, organization, and management skills as well as confidence in presenting their ideas. Everyone is cordially invited to attend the daylong tournament.

       In the photo at left, Palmer's "DinoStories" team works after school on their problem solution.

News from Shawnee Team 7 – 5

     In Miss Hunter and Miss Kurylak’s Social Studies classes, students just finished exploring the four regions of Africa and each region’s cultural, geographical, and environmental aspects.  Some students in Mrs. Kinney’s English classes are finishing group Adjective and Adverb presentations.  While, Mrs. Coon’s reading students are continuing to watch, track, and read information about the Iditarod race and its competitors.  Students are traveling the world with their minds!

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

Family Connection would like to thank Paxinosa students, families, and staff for celebrating their 10th anniversary at the Founders' Day event. Students collected 2500 pennies and many families brought books and puzzles as birthday gifts. Thank you Paxinosa!

News from Team 7-4 – Basement Bulldogs

Good luck to Megan S. who will compete in the final round of the Regional Spelling Bee Thursday night at Lehigh University!

In Mr. Hink’s Social Studies classes, student teacher Mr. Shadle is working on North Africa and studying the significance of Islam to the region.  Miss Dinsmore’s Honors Pre-Algebra and Academic 7 Math classes are working on area, volume, and surface area of shapes.  Her classes will begin reviewing for the PSSA's starting Monday.  Miss Meashock’s Academic classes are wrapping up their novel study with group projects.  Her Honors classes are completing their author studies this week.  Miss Parsons' students are beginning the "Change the World Campaign" project.  For this project, students will have to select a cause and write a persuasive essay about their cause, as well as do something to help the cause.  Mrs. Hurst’s Life Science classes are currently studying Kingdom Protista.  Students were able to observe various protist using the compound microscope.

News from Team 8-1

Students are continuing Study Island in their Math and English classes and took their final Math 4-sight test.  In Social Studies, students enjoyed a mini lesson celebrating Black History Month.  They will be watching The Ernest Green Story, which is about Little Rock Nine.  In Science, students enjoyed a lab where they found their speeds and reaction times and used the information to decide how far the walls should be from the out of bounds line on a basketball court.

Two students on our team recently competed in the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science competition.  Erik Ritter presented a project about the physics of Superballs and Philip Watters presented a project about the physics of a counterweight catapult.  Erik received a first place award and will be presenting his project at the state competition at Penn State University in May.  Philip received a second place award and has been invited to be a technician at the state competition.  Congratulations to both of these students!