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“Primary Focus” entertains with a message
Members of the “Primary Focus” singing group visited Haywood
County elementary schools March 23 to entertain and send a
message. The group, one of several based out of San Diego,
California, is made up of college students from around the country
who travel to schools across the nation to talk and sing to
students about making good choices. Primary Focus performances
support the nationwide “Character Counts” education initiative.
Members of the Haywood County Youth Coalition at Haywood High
School, under the direction of HHS School Resource Officer Barry
Diebold, brought Primary Focus to the Brownsville schools with
funds from a grant they received from the “Community Anti-Drug
Coalition Across Tennessee.” Basically, the message is “to make
good decisions regarding alcohol, drugs and gangs,” Officer
Diebold said. “Primary Focus” does about 700 performances a year
in schools.
Sunny Hill halls filled with classroom projects
Students create globes in social studies class
Fifth-grade students in Kriste Voss’s class
created globes of the world after studying the continents and
their shapes in social studies class. Some students also earned
extra credit with “What’s Going on in the World” posters they
created with current events, information and facts on them.
Some science projects “edible”
When students in Stephanie Cole’s fifth-grade
class at Sunny Hill School were studying the Periodic Table, they
found out that some of their science projects could be made
“edible.” Of course they discovered that H20 (hydrogen and oxygen)
makes water, but they also learned that the combination of other
elements create all sorts of compounds then products that people
use every day. Students also studied chemical and physical
reactions, and using all that they had learned, created a variety
of outstanding projects.
Calling all entrepreneurs at Sunny Hill
A recent study of economics in Barbara
Garrett’s sixth-grade class produced several young “entrepreneurs”
in the making. According to Mrs. Garrett, students have economics
questions on the Terra Nova test, so she created a study in
economics about starting a business. Students teamed up to create
a business, design brochures, make posters and flyers, create
advertisements and tape commercials, then if they could, create
their products for sampling. This group named their company
“Chocolate Sweets Inc” and made some chocolate covered
strawberries for others to taste. Among the other businesses
created were a car repair service, a lawn care company, and
another candy company.
Transcontinental Railroad connects the East and
the West
Denise Phillips’ fifth graders recently learned
how the “East met the West” when they studied the creation of what
is known as the Transcontinental Railroad. The social studies
lesson taught students that after the 1849 Gold Rush, Americans
knew they must be able to transport cross-country much faster.
Therefore, the great train companies, the Union Pacific and the
Central Pacific, began laying over 2,000 miles of track until they
joined in a historical ceremony at Promontory Point in Utah on May
10, 1869. A golden spike was driven into the track to mark the
monumental occasion. Travel time from America’s East and West
coasts were reduced from months to less than a week with the
completion of this railroad line. As Mrs. Phillips’ students
studied the subject, they created this railroad to symbolize the
importance of the Continental Railroad in U.S. history and
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