Author and historian Kevin Corley spoke to Mr. Pierce's 8th grade social studies class about the Pana coal mine wars.
Pictures of 6th grade students solving equations with pawns and dice.
English 3 general and CP have an analysis essay due tonight by 11:59 on Google Classroom. Students can find examples and helpful hints on last week's Classroom posts and handouts. As always, they can stay after school or email Mrs. Stalets during the evening for help.
Update: PHS Boys baseball has changed location. Today's game vs Beecher City will be played at home at 4:15 pm.
Lincoln Elementary students will be creating unique designs and decorating a T-shirt to wear during IAR (parcc) testing. IAR is the formerly known PARCC or ISAT test from the past. It stands for Illinois Assessment of Readiness but we are turning those letters into I AM READY!!!
Please provide a T-shirt for your child to bring to school by next week and we will provide the markers. If you can donate an extra shirt for any kiddo who may not have one, it would be greatly appreciated as well.
Recently 6th grade science has been very yummy! Students created edible plant and animal cells.
2nd hour Driver Education class enjoyed hearing from our guest speakers today about Distress Bandanna's
Clothing students are repurposing collared shirts to make aprons.
The advanced chemistry students performed an acid/base titration today in class in order to determine the concentration of an unknown hydrochloric acid solution. Students Jacob Beyers and Natalie Stauder are shown with their ending product of the chemical reaction.
Mr. Lipe and Mr. Pumphrey's driver education classes were visited by The Distress Bandanna people today. During this presentation they discussed roadside safety and all students in the drivers ed program received a distress bandanna to use in their own cars
Lumbricus terrestris, anyone? Earthworm anatomy today for PHS ZooBot students!
***Do you or anyone you know need a part time or full time job? Apply today online or in person at the Pana CUSD #8 Unit Office!***
-Bus Driver (Substitute)
-Custodian (Substitute)
-Cafeteria Cook, Cashier, Dishwasher, Aides (Substitute)
-Elementary 3rd Grade Teacher (2019-2020 school year)
-Elementary 4th Grade Teacher (2019-2020 school year)
-Elementary Guidance Counselor (2019-2020 school year)
-Jr High Boys Track Coach
-Jr High Science/History Teacher (2019-2020 school year)
-High School Dishwasher (Part-Time) - 2 positions available
-High School Social Studies Teacher (2019-2020 school year)
-High School Physical Education Teacher (2019-2020 school year)
-High School Guidance Counselor
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PHS Biology students tackling the tricky topic of mitosis.
Photoshop students have been busy designing original book covers.
PJHS Play from third quarter.
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwL-SvQPO4
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVNBHtOvZQ
Who doesn't want to cook NEXT Wed night March 20th?
Pana Post Prom is selling the yummy Nelson's Chicken Dinner, let us know if you need one or they can be picked up at Pana CUSD #8 unit office!! Call 562-1500, tickets available til Thursday at 5pm!
Enjoying PHS chorus
Physical science students calculated the average speed and acceleration of toy cars today in class!
Over 120 PJHS students have joined the Walk This Way Challenge for 4th quarter. Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Sowarsh, and staff members are walking with students to promote healthy habits and build relationships. It was chilly today, but it was great to be outside!
Just a message to all the Lincoln Elementary parents.
All schools will be dismissing at 12:00 tomorrow for scheduled afternoon conferences. Don't forget to make arrangements for early pick up.
Lincoln Elementary will send home 3rd quarter report cards on Friday, March 15th.
Pana Archery Club traveled to Albion, IL for the State Championship Saturday. Bryce 1st, and Blake 2nd high school pins, and Bailey 3rd middle school pins. Bryce Shooter of the Year for high school pins.
Attention Senior Parents: Be on the lookout for a letter being mailed to you this week with information on the yearbooks! We have a due date coming up, so please watch your mailbox!
Mrs. Berns' Geometry students have been creative making theorem posters to enhance their learning. You may see some of these around the high school.
I created a new point-slope formula template for my Algebra 1A students. They slid the templates into plastic sleeves and practiced problems with dry erase markers. They were really engaged, and now they understand the process better!
Congratulations to Lucas Duduit for placing 2nd in Engineering Graphics at the EIU Sectional for the Academic Challenge. Lucas qualifies for that state competition in April.
Wednesday is an early dismissal for PT Conferences from 12:45-3:30
PJHS will distribute 3rd quarter report cards on Friday, March 15th.
Last week 6th grade students began making models of a plant cell. Students had to color and cut the organelles and had to determine where within a cell to position the organelles. They also had to identify the function of the organelles.
New employment opportunities available:
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Seniors- Scholarship due dates are closer than they appear! Check out the new bulletin board outside of Student Services. New scholarships will be added regularly :-)
In 9th hour PBL 4 teams have successfully mastered working with scale measurements and demonstrated their proficiency by drawing and building a Warren truss bridge to ⅜” scale.
The low voltage team of Babe Bradley and James Hill completed a model of the low voltage systems for the solar car.
Students were introduced to the angle relationships that are formed when a pair of parallel lines are cut by a transversal. This new concept was reinforced in a fun way by playing Dance Dance Transversal.
We love to eat dirt!!
Eating some delicious dirt!
PJHS Drama Class will be performing “The Internet is Distracting...Oh Look a Kitten!” today at 3:00 in the PJHS Auditorium. Here are a few pictures from Thursday’s performance.
Students in the Drama PBL (first time ever at PJHS) have been working very hard on a performance to share with their classmates on Thursday and their families on Saturday. We are nervous, but excited!
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Overall evaluation? Excellent day today in Zoology!
Sixth graders are ready to start the 4th quarter off strong! They will be using their reading and writing skills to prepare for the upcoming IAR assessments.
In landscaping class, the students have planted seeds, now have seedlings growing. A major task accomplished was to have the students label their flats with plant name and variety.
The physics students spent several days designing and testing balsa wood bridges. The winning bridge held 131 lbs and weighed only 0.12 lbs when constructed.
Student Council is selling popcorn to raise funds for 2019 Homecoming activities. Orders and money due 03/15. See a PHS StuCo member to order!
Plt4m training in High School Physical Enhancement Classes. This is a way to integrate technology into the weight lifting classes to hopefully increase students knowledge on lifelong fitness.
English III is learning about Transcendentalism. We wrote our own poems last week and submitted them to a poetry contest. Good luck to all the students who entered!
Physical Enhancement Classes using PLT4M technology in the classroom. We have also used several new ideas in our physical education classrooms: Norwegian Longball, Switch, and Pacer Test Relays. These ideas came from the PE workshop we attended a few weeks ago.
Los estudiantes de español uno están aprendiendo sobre la cultura española con información sobre "La fiesta brava"
Freshmen are finishing reading Romeo and Juliet- projects are coming soon (due Friday, March 15)!
Comp 2 "Lucy" Project
Today's Driver Education classes were amazed to see how complex driving can be in urban settings like the Streets of San Francisco.
PHS Zoology & Botany Class will be doing some dissecting this week! Focus is on the Phylum Mollusca!
In Consumer Education Class we have been working on the student's portfolios by creating Resumes, Letter of Applications and Thank you letters that they will be able to use for future use.
Thank you Dr. Beyers for visiting our Introduction to Business class on Tuesday to discuss a variety of topics related to running a business.
Julius Caesar vs. Marcus Brutus...It looks like a Pro-Caesar year!
The book fair for students at Lincoln Elementary will be held during the school day 3/7 and 3/8.
Health JAM 2019 was completed on Wednesday February 27 with a full day of Career Day. All 5th grade students completed the 6 week challenge of "Walking Across Illinois." Students were paired in groups and challenged by wearing fitbits to have enough steps to walk across Illinois.
Students researched and created an animal slide project on GoogleSlides.
Students made some awesome landform models out of salt dough.
This week students are giving oral reports on their Famous Black Americans.
Finishing up our Science Unit on Physical vs. Chemical Changes!
Mrs. Epley's third graders have read more than seventeen million words in Accelerated Reader as a group! Way to read!!
Students presented their google slide projects on the Presidents this week.
Book Fair starting next week! These two 8th grade students (Bailey Carnahan and Faith Horton) have the most Outside Reading points so far this year. They are showing you some books we will have for sale.
Excited that several students have met their requirements to "graduate" from math intervention class this week.
In seventh grade language arts, students did a "speed dating" activity to provide each other feedback on their argument essay introductions.
Shared my lunch time with four 6th grade boys. We shared good conversation and a few laughs. I love making connections with kids!
Students have been learning about fractions in math now. Simplest form is probably the most challenging, but most students can do it now.
My 5th grade friends will be researching inventions and in weeks to come will be creating one of their own!
Welcome to Washington School
Fifth graders will be identifying minerals next week by looking at their properties, such as luster, streak, and hardness.
Students are learning about mood and point of view. They had a blind read and had to add an illustration of their own that supported mood and point of view from the characters in the story. This was a quick check on comprehension.
Our class just finished The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. The students really wanted to continue reading the sequel, so we read the synopsis of her next book. I bought The War I Finally Won over the weekend, so we are now excited to be reading the sequel!
Title Reading has been reviewing for the IAR. We have covered the concepts of summarizing, text structure, main idea, sequencing, and cause and effect.
Today is a great day to do Thrillshare training!
Don't forget to order your yearbook.
