Sunny Hill Student Council members are keeping Sunny Hill looking great!

Students celebrate Red and Blue Day at Sunny Hill

Positive behavior adds up!

Ms. Holmes’ class displays the chain that won them a popcorn and movie afternoon for being the first class to have their chain go from ceiling to floor. As part of the School Wide Positive Behavior System, each class was given the opportunity to collect chain links from school staff when they were caught with positive behavior in the school. Ms. Holmes’ class was the first fifth-grade class that earned enough links to reach the floor. Way to Go!!!
 

Students who made the Honor Roll the 2nd six weeks were able to order lunch from McDonald’s.

Sunny Hill teacher Robin Callery retires after 30 years of service! We wish her well!

Fun! Fun! - Thinking Map Project

Ms. Holmes’ students at Sunny Hill are learning to use Thinking Maps to enhance their learning. Thinking Maps are used as a visual tool by students for constructing knowledge: for improving the basics of reading, writing, and mathematics as well as for problem-solving and the development of higher-order thinking abilities.

Each child has taken a reading concept and applied it to a “real world” event. They have demonstrated their knowledge by using the appropriate thinking map to organize and process their information. They have also researched the SPIs ( State Performance Indicator) that applies to that skill. The template for each map can be found at: http://classroom.kleinisd.net/webs/metzler/templates_for_students.htm

Williamson's students at work

Mrs. Williamson's fifth-grade class at Sunny Hill created double bar climagraphs for major cities in coastal and mountainous areas throughout the U.S. They are studying how oceans and mountains affect climate. The students worked in groups to average the next six days' weather forecast in the various cities.
 

Mrs. Williamson's fifth-grade social studies class is busy learning about our 50 states. "We created salt maps of the Southeast region labeling major geographic features and states," Mrs. Williamson said.

 

 

Mrs. Williamson's science class is studying how internal forces, such as volcanoes, are responsible for the earth's major geological features: mountains and valleys. The students created shield and cinder-cone volcanoes then erupted them as they discussed lava flow and new island archipelagos. Mrs. Williamson's class erupting volcanoes  .
 

Mrs. Williamson's fifth-grade science class created three-dimensional plant and animal cells as they studied the characteristics of the organelles in each cell.