After studying the Holocaust, the 8th grade spent two days in the library this week rotating to ten stations where they created black-out poetry, solved Breakout Edu puzzles, folded origami, planted Victory Gardens, sorted timelines, learned to jitterbug, made videos, created ads, and painted. Thanks, Mrs. Lonsberry and Ms. Bagwell!
BMS students are readers! Students have been making their way to the library this week to stock up on books, to create bookmarks, and to check out our new reading room.
This spring in the 8th grade ELA and reading classes, students studied WW II and the Holocaust. In addition to a trip to the San Antonio Holocaust Memorial Museum, the students read novels and a play and conducted research. Pictured here are artifacts that the students created to represent their learning. Despite a rainy forecast, the annual AR field trip was a resounding success. A great big thank you to Ms. Kromer, Mrs. Milner, Mrs. Frierson, the parent chaperones, Mr. McDonald, Mrs. Wilson, and the ELA department for all helping to make the day memorable.
The eighth grade traveled to the San Antonio Holocaust Memorial Museum last week for an educational field trip. Students learned about the history of the Holocaust from volunteer docents, viewed a video, worked in groups to make connections between the Holocaust and other genocides in history, and heard personal testimonies from Holocaust survivors Rose Williams and Susanne Jalnos. The field trip experience will allow the students to bring new context to their learning as they finish reading The Diary of Anne Frank and begin reading their World War II literature circle novels. A big thank you to Ms. Bagwell for leading the students in making origami butterfly bouquets to present as gifts to the Holocaust survivors. The students stopped at Raymond Russell Park to eat lunch on the way back to Bandera.
Students in Mrs. Elrod's and Mrs. Mitchell's class are taking full advantage of our beautiful weather this week to prepare their spring garden. The students have removed the winter leaf debris and acorns and turned the soil. When they came to the library this week, they learned about seed and plant structure and prepared bean seeds to sprout. Then they worked with Mrs. Groff, Mrs. Elrod, and Mrs. Story to build a worm farm. The nutrient-rich soil from the worm garden will benefit the garden later this spring.
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