Choe and April winners at MLKJr. Breakfast- MCS Spelling Bee 2017--math and script writing for Radio Theater Plays of Literature Circle Books

Very proud of how these two integrated the Water Ways Exhibit from our visit to
City Hall into their art. It made their work more powerful.

Long time organizer Joanne Muneta enjoying part of April's poem that the Mayor read.

Chloe won for her picture drawing and April won for her poem. Mayor Bill Lambert gave the awards for the kids that won.

Science Experiment with snow-- inferring about melt, making claims and supporting with evidence. We had fun applying mean, median,mode, and range. Then we charted the actual time of melt to the prediction each generated.

Kids picked who they wanted to work with and chose from 5 different novels to read and work together. It is fun to discuss academics with people you enjoy.

Measuring and writing about the snow experiment

Ms. Wold, our  302 UI student works with kids. She has jumped right in teaching math and getting to know the work we are doing.

Carefully finding vocabulary to define, character, plot, and setting points. All this was put into a story arc and the
the group wrote a radio play.

MCS Spelling Bee 2017 Pronouncer Paige Buehler, and Judges Cassie Lewis, Miss Idaho USA and Daniel Granja of the
University of Idaho. They worked together so well and kept up with the over 150 words that were given by Ms. Buehler to the 43 kids grades 2nd through 7th that participated. It was so cool too--both the judges had participated in Spelling Bees when they were in school. Miss Lewis even remember the word she missed--that she shared--jaguar. 

Some of the first participants to come into the MPR. Quite a few came to Spelling Bee Club that met on Tuesdays
starting right after the holiday break.

The kids worked in tables to model math factors from throwing 4 dice--2 for one factor and 2 for another. Then they used the cubes to set up the factors and if they had enough to make an array of the product. Two tables shared their work with another table. 

Learning to play Hearts-- strategy and conversation