Community School Zone - March 2011

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March 2011 Education is Power Volume 4, Issue 3

Baldwin High School

Oak Hill Middle School

Blandy Hills Elementary

Creekside Elementary

Eagle Ridge Elementary

GMC Prep School

John Milledge Academy

Early Learning Center

Sinclair Christian Academy

Midway Elementary

GMC students use darts in math

Contributed photoStudents in Maj. Stephanie Williams sixth grade Accelerated Math class recently completed a probability project. Inthis project, students designed a dartboard that had four regions worth 100, 50, 25 and 10 points. Each of the regionsrepresented a different percentage of the total area of the board. Upon completion, students had to present theirboards to the class and explain how they found the probability of each region. Many students came up with challeng-ing shapes and designs, and no two boards were alike. These students worked very hard and showed their ability tosolve this challenging problem.

On Tuesday, March 1, Sinclair Christian Academy and Mayor Bentley dedicated SCA’s new school building. The following day,all SCA students and teachers gathered in the sanctuary to celebrate the new building and the first annual Christian EducationWeek in Milledgeville. Pastor Andy Schulze gave a short sermon on dedicating the new building. Afterwards, everyone gath-ered at the new school building for a time of prayer. Dr. Bob Poole introduced Pastor Andy. He then prayed over the newbuilding in hopes of it becoming a great blessing to the community around it. As the only Christian school in Milledgeville,SCA works hard to make sure students achieve their goals in academics as well as in their relationship with Christ. SCA hopesto become a great example to everyone around them and prepares their students to do likewise when they are out in thecommunity.

SCAcelebrates new school building completion

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Schubert earns recognition

Students bring pets to ELC

Oak Hill Middle School sixth-grade stu-dent Storm Schubert was recently award-ed for his hard work. He is shown withhis reading certificate along with Ms.Letze (Georgia College M.A.T. StudentTeacher), Mrs. Johnson (sixth gradeschool counselor), Mrs. Butler and Ms.

Stanley. As a reward for Storm, whoalways exhibits a positive attitudetoward learning and has read over a mil-lion words so far this school year, he wasgiven a reading certificate and a ticket toattend the end of the year sixth gradefield trip to Wild Adventures.

Trenton brought his dog to school during Pet Week atEarly Learning Center, and the class played catch with him.

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Above: Mr. Jeff McAfee of North Baldwin Fire Rescue, Sherard Harper, Raven Burns andJerome Anderson of Mrs. Nelanie McAfee’s Second Grade at Midway. At left: Baldwin CountyFirefighter Mike Durden , Sharard Harper and Melvin Goddard from Mrs. Nelanie McAfee’sSecond Grade Class at Midway. Below: Firefighters from Hardwick Station and Central StateStation during the presentation to Midway’s second grade students.

Baldwin County Firefighters visit Midway Elementary

Midway’s second grade students are completing a unit study of non-fictionstories. One of the stories is all about a trip to a local firehouse. On Tuesday,Feb. 8, Baldwin County Firefighters from the Hardwick Station and CentralState Station came to visit and talk with the students about a day in the life ofa firefighter. The firefighters connected what was happening in their day withwhat the students were doing at the same time. For instance, they explainedthat they come on their shift at 7 a.m.; then they talked with the children aboutwhat is happening in their day at that time. Many of the students said theywere on the bus or in the car on the way to school. After this presentation, allof the students were able to observe the different kinds of fire and rescuetrucks. The firefighters explained their gear and how each truck is used dur-ing an emergency. The second grade teachers were treated to a ride on theladder truck. On Friday, Feb. 11, Mr. Jeff McAfee of Fowler Flemister Concreteand a volunteer firefighter with North Baldwin Fire Rescue came to theschool with all of his gear. He explained all of the gear and the students wereallowed to have a hands-on look at it. They really enjoyed being timed whiletrying to put on his fireman’s suit. In return, for this wonderful presentation,on Valentine’s Day the teachers took goodies and snacks to the Hardwick FireStation for the firefighters to enjoy. Midway appreciates all of BaldwinCounty’s fine fire and rescue workers and volunteers.


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‘The Enormous Turnip’

Mrs. McCroskey and Mrs. Johnson’s kindergarten class at Eagle Ridgeenjoyed reading the story ‘The Enormous Turnip.’ The class completed agraphic organizer and cooked turnips as part of their lesson. The stu-dents all agree that completing the graphic organizer was fun, but theirfavorite part was eating turnips! Pictured: Jaquan, Damon, Julius, Keith,Laila, Kenihis, Shyanne and Angel.

Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks' kindergarten class at Eagle RidgeElementary would like to thank first graders (left to right) JaquanMoore, Yusef Sanders and Keymadi Pinkston for sharing their bookswith our class. These students were former students of Mrs. Crane'sclass.

Eagle Ridge first-gradersvisit with kindergarten class

Creekside student wins No Bullying coloring contest

At Creekside Elementary school, counselor Mrs. Davis shared impor-tant information about no bullying. As a reinforcement activity theschool completed a No bullying coloring contest. Charley Cruey fromMs. Amason’s kindergarten class won the No Bullying coloring contest.

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Oak Hill MS sudentsstudy artifacts

Oak Hill Middle School eighth grade students in Mrs. Linda White’sGeorgia history class became archeologists and began digging for arti-facts that they buried after decorating pottery as Woodland Indians.

Early Learning Center students visit the museum

Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. James’ class from Early Learning Center enjoyeda visit to the Georgia College dinosaur museum.

The Baldwin High School Skills USA Construction Club competed atthe region competitions Thursday, Jan. 27. BHS entered the TeamWorks and Residential Wiring Competitions, placing first in both.Team Works made the highest score ever in the state, scoring 367 outof 400. The previous high mark was around 310. Team Works is madeup of a four-person team required to do all phases of construction,carpentry, wiring, plumbing and masonry. The students are BarryArrington II, Jasper Murray, Daniel Biddy and James Knowles. Theywill have to be one of the top 10 scores in the state to be able toadvance to State Competitions held March 17, 18 and 19 in Atlanta.Residential Wiring will automatically advance to state by virtue ofplacing 1st at the region competitions. Marcus Dexter won theResidential Wiring Contest, beating ten other competitors. All thesestudents have worked very hard in achieving these goals and wewish them good luck at state. Pictured are the students that went tothe region competitions.

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Mrs. Hitchcock's third grade class from Midway Elementary enjoyed a fieldtrip to Georgia College. The theme for the field trip was “Fossils to Space.”Joseph Dominy from Georgia College was the guide for the activities.

Dr. Drummond’s fifth grade science classes atCreekside Elementary recently received twoaquariums, fish, aquatic plants, and aquariumaccessories valued at more than $500 through agrant from the website www.donorschoose.organd by a generous donation from the GeorgiaAquarium in Atlanta. The website allows teach-ers to request classroom materials which are thenfunded by donors from across the country.Pictured (above):: Junior scientists Dailon Brownand Kaleb Brown help to set up the class’s newaquariums. At left: Junior scientists Jorge Obispoand Chris Duncan pose beside one of the com-pleted aquariums.

Creekside students study aquatic life

Midway students study fossils


Midway studentswalk on stilts as partof reading exercise

JMAteachers attendwriting workshop

Angie Panfil, Claire Garrett, Carla Bentley and Board Member Holley Robertsattended a workshop sponsored by the Central Georgia Writing Project ofGeorgia College where they learned from Carmen Agra Deedy about thecharacteristics of high quality children's texts and how to engage studentsin the writing process. Carmen Agra Deedy is a best-selling children’s bookauthor, who has been internationally recognized for her award-winning cre-ations, including The Yellow Star and Martina the Beautiful Cockroach. ACuban refugee, Deedy’s stories have capivated children of all ages for morethan 20 years. Pictured from left are Angie Panfil, Carmen Agra Deedy,Holley Roberts, Claire Garrett and Carla Bentley.

Eagle Ridge kindergartenershave pre-K visitors

Mrs. McCroskey’s kindergarten class at Eagle Ridge Elementary enjoyedhaving students from the Early Learning Center come to visit. The visit ispart of transitioning from Pre-K to Kindergarten. The kindergarten classes,as they get ready to move on to first grade, all agreed they had fun get-ting to meet the students who would soon be coming to kindergarten.Special thanks to all who helped make the visit possible. Pictured: Keonand Jaquan, kindergarteners from Mrs. McCroksey’s room, and Hudsonfrom Mrs. Johnson’s pre-k.

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Mrs. Sills’ third grade YES class at Midway Elementary recently attemptedto walk on stilts. After reading “The King’s Stilts” by Dr. Seuss in celebra-tion of his birthday March 2, Mrs. Sills took all of her students outside tolet them try walking on stilts. Let’s just say it is not as easy as it looks. So,the class then tried Pogo Sticks, this too, was not so easy, but all the stu-dents had lots of fun trying. Pictured in center and going around counterclockwise are: Christian Parham, Jamel Baymon, Davion Sanders, RandyMosley, Zaraun Gibson, Miranda Brett, Iyania Ingram, Takeya Clevelandand Tahiya Fluellen.


JMA students visit Shakespeare Tavern

The John Milledge Academy ninth grade English classes went to the Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta to view “Romeo and Juliet.” The play was a finaleto a four week Shakespeare in Film unit, which was celebrated by eating at the Varsity.

Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Eubanks' kindergarten class at Eagle RidgeElementary enjoyed a lesson on Japanese culture from HaleighBatchelor's family members. Pictured are (left to right) Zachary Batchelor,Brandy Batchelor, "Nana" Batchelor and Haleigh Batchelor. Thank you forthe wonderful Japanese snack!

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The agriculture classes of Bradley K. Hall, agriculture education teacher atBaldwin High School have received a generous donation from the privatelibrary of Dr. Harriet Whipple, professor of biological and environmental sci-ence at Georgia College. The donation included a complete set of The NewIllustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening. Several books received in the dona-tion were horticulture and plant science books specifically written for use inthe state of Georgia. The books are unique in the fact that they were writ-ten by Georgians for the distinct purpose of simplifying the state’s diverseregions, soil types, and varied weather conditions. Dr. Whipple made thedonation under the circumstances that the students only use the books with“dirty hands, because that is how they were meant to be handled and used.”

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GMC students study catapults

Maj. Clay McElheny’s physic class recently studied the mechanics associ-ated with an ancient catapult. The trebuchet is a siege engine used forthrowing large rocks. It was invented in China in about the fourth cen-tury BC. The students had to design and build their own trebuchet,using PVC pipe and other materials (including duct tape)! The projectwas a success and the seniors enjoyed working on their trebuchets.Pictured: Scott Gorham, Skylar Walker, Corey Thrower, Zoe Lumpkin,Christin Cox.

Oak Hill students recognized for

Geography Bee participationOak Hill Middle School recently held the 2011 National Geography Beesponsored by the National Geographic Society. The winner was DavinaHurt and runner-up was Carolyn Coleman. Davina will take a test sentby the National Geography Society and may receive an invitation to theSpring competition to be held at Georgia College and State University.Shown are L to R Carolyn Coleman, Dr. Linda Ramsey, Principal of OHMS,Davina Hurt and Mrs. Linda White, eighth grade social studies teacher.


Midway students mark Dr. Seuss’ birthday

Polly Smith’s class of Midway Elementary celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday andNational Read Across America Day March 2. The students were greeted with abreakfast of green eggs and ham and were entertained through out the daywith stories and lessons that were focused on the life of the talented author.They students learned about fractions, comparing and contrasting, and theyeven had some fun the entire day! Also, in celebration of the day, the studentswere entertained with a Georgia College student who came and read the story‘Yertle the Turtle.’ The students also learned very important lessons from thecharacters in the story like everyone should keep their word like in ‘HortonHatches the Egg’ and how to treat everyone fairly and equal from ‘TheSneeches.’ The students in Ms. Smith’s class had a wonderful day admiring aclassic author.

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GMC sixth-graders visit Stone Mountain Park

Sixth-grade students at Georgia Military College went on a field trip to Stone Mountain. They learned about the history of Stone Mountain with handson activities that included a hike up the mountain. This was part of their geology unit they studied earlier this year. After the hike, they enjoyed apicnic lunch on the mountain before they climbed back down.


Early Learning Center holds Pet Week

Dr. Russ Edwards from the Animal Hospital of Milledgeville came and talked to Early Learning Center about his job during Pet Week.

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