Portage Township Schools Update, October 26, 2017

Portage Township Schools Update, October 26, 2017

Saylor Elementary 4th & 2nd Grade STEM
Students in Mrs. Sopko's 4th grade and Mrs. Rodenbarger's 2nd grade class worked together on a STEM activity. Students were given materials and instructions on how to assemble a catapult using tape and popsicle sticks. The groups then took different items, and catapulted them to see how far they flew. Students tried different techniques to make the items go further.

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Saylor Elementary 3rd Grade STEM
Students in Mrs.Tharp's 3rd grade class did a STEM activity today. Student groups had to build pedestal stands out of paper. Each group made a cylinder, triangle and square stand, and then hypothesized which stand would hold the most books.

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Fegely Middle School Chooses Kindness
On October 18, all students and staff members at Fegely Middle School joined together to read the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. It is a novel about a boy born with a severely deformed face and touches upon the issues of friendship, personal challenges, and bullying while teaching kindness, tolerance, and acceptance.

The idea of a school wide reading project came over a year ago and has taken months of fundraising from the school and local businesses so books could be purchased for the entire school.

Students were given a copy of the book to keep and will take part in various activities throughout the year to promote the idea of being kind to one another.

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Myers Elmentary
When you can't take the students to the pumpkin patch (because of weather), you bring the pumpkin patch to the students! Miss Karlee Parker's Kindergarten class enjoyed learning about pumpkins and "picking" pumpkins to paint!

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Kyle Elementary
Evan Chubbuck is pictured with his parents for being the first Young Citizenship Award winner. He was awarded this for following the critical values from kdg-5th grade.