COLORADO ELEMENTARY

The entire Colorado Elementary Family came together to honor one of our brave students who is battling cancer at the University of Iowa Hospital. We want him to know we miss him and think of him every day. Devin: "We gladly "Dab for You" every chance we get. Love ya, Buddy."

For more information on this awesome kid and his amazing story, check out his Facebook page "Dab'n for Devin."

Colorado students have been busy! Pictured below are some of Colorado's English Learner students with EL teacher Mrs. Chatman as they participate in small-group support (photo on the left); Colorado's fifth grade Talented and Gifted Students wrapped up their week of instruction with Mrs. Carlson (top photo on right); a group of primary students practiced their phonics skills with a 95% lesson led by Mrs. Goddard (right, bottom left); and It's great to see the smiles of the fifth graders during one of their activities in PE (right, bottom right)!

FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY

Kindergarten students in Miss Clemens' class at Franklin worked hard together and independently this week on math and alphabet activities!

Fourth graders in Mrs. Van Hemert's class worked hard on reading fluency. They also had a guest reader, Principal Wester!

GRANT ELEMENTARY

Below is Grant's Student Leadership Team for the 2016-17 school year!

School Secretary Mrs. Gladwell and Sofia celebrate Sofia's birthday! Mrs. Gladwell started a new birthday tradition at Grant. The students get serenaded by our singing "Happy Birthday" monkey! It puts a smile on everyone's face!

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY

Jefferson Elementary recently received a bronze bust of Thomas Jefferson. This special gift to Jefferson School was made possible by current Board Member, Randy Naber, and retired Jefferson/Franklin Social Worker, Jeanne Johnson.

Third graders in Miss Lindsey's class played a singing game during music class this week.

MADISON ELEMENTARY

Madison Third Graders in Mrs. McGill's class went on a seed search. The students looked at the seeds and learned ways in which seeds are dispersed.

MULBERRY ELEMENTARY

Kindergarteners in Mrs. Green's class at Mulberry celebrated National Play-Doh Day!

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Sixth graders in Mrs. Duffe's math classes have been studying how to use tape diagrams to find equivalent ratios. This week students had the opportunity to create real life tape diagrams while taking advantage of the beautiful weather. They then used sidewalk chalk to draw the mathematical models that corresponded to the real life enactment.

If you'd like to know more about tape diagrams, you can visit this site to watch an informative video:

CMS students gave back to the community by participating in United Way's Day of Caring.

WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL

On Wednesday, September 14th West Middle School had thirty-one eighth grade students volunteer for the sixth year at the Veterans TEE Tournament in Riverside, IA. Every year 200+ visually and physically impaired veterans come from 40 different states to participate in horseback riding, kayaking, golf, and many other activities. Our students helped with the horseback riding, kayaking, golf and served lunch. They definitely made a difference!

MUSCATINE HIGH SCHOOL

The students from Mrs. Kelsey's, Mrs. Wells' and Ms. Robison's classes explored Camp Courageous in Monticello, Iowa on Monday, September 12th. The experience included hiking, a petting zoo, games, and lunch. It was a great opportunity to see the camp, polish our communication skills, and try new things.

Students Against Destructive Decisions - S.A.D.D. met last week to prepare for their involvement with the 7th annual Muscatine Community Block party which took place last Friday evening at Discovery Park.

Students in Mr. Gehret's ALC (Advanced Learning Center) classes worked online for credit recovery and learning support. ALC is a great opportunity for students to receive one-on-one help from teachers from many different areas of education.

Students in Mrs. Long's Physical Education class got to experience canoeing at Discovery Park!

On Wednesday, 42 MHS industrial technoloy students along with their teachers Mr. Mayer and Mrs. Sneed with representatives from HNI: Lindsey Petersen, Mark Fortenbacher, Russ Hillman, Levi Wrieden, and Robert Allbee, took a trip to Chicago to the IMTS trade show and STEM Summit. Students at the summit got to design their own rocket, 3-D print, and then launch their rocket. There were several of other hands-on displays that the students got to participate in. The convention was held in 4 different buildings, each building had three floors of displays, over 1.3 million square feet! Students got to interact with the manufacturers of state of the art equipment, from CNC machine, robots, automotive industry, NASA, welding to name a few. One of the favorite machines was an engraver that was engraving portraits into eggs, Will Smith and Michael Jackson where just a few. The new cars and automobiles are always a big attraction. Several cars are prototyped on 3-D printers that were then printed out as a new car just for this show. Students had a great time! HNI and the Industrial tech department are planning to do the trip again when it comes back in two years. Thank you HNI for this amazing experience!

The Muskie Football team earned a hard fought victory at home last week against Pleasant Valley. The Muskies travel to Eldridge tonight to play the Lancers of North Scott. Be Bold & wear Gold tonight! Go Muskies!!