Nassau Notebook

Volume VI, No. 15

Rockin' Ramblers

Visual Vocabulary

As a culminating activity for vocabulary, Callahan Middle School Science students created an Instagram post using a Canva template focusing on the words: Compound, element, homogeneous mixture or heterogeneous mixture.

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Florida Bandmasters Association All-State Middle School Honor Band

Callahan Middle School eighth grader, Zion Daniel, was recently chosen to represent Callahan in the Florida Bandmasters Association All-State Middle School Honor Band. Zion will travel to Tampa in January and meet with 120 other talented musicians from around the state to rehearse and perform a concert at the Florida Music Education Association's annual conference. This is Zion's third time this year has received recognition for his talent.

This past summer, he and fellow eighth-grade student, Riley McGinley (picture below), were chosen to represent Callahan in the first ever 7 Star Honor band held in Daytona Beach.

Trailblazers in Action

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Community Helper Day

Kindergarten and 1st Grade students at Wildlight Elementary School participated in community helper day! Students rotated to each station to spend a morning learning about the important jobs of our community members. These community members included UPS, Boarder Patrol, Westberry Lawn, Doggone Good Readers, The Military, Town of Wildlight, YMCA, Nassau County Sheriff Department, Sighted Guides, FPL Lineman, Rayonier, and the Florida Forestry. We had such a blast learning about their jobs, and we appreciate their help in our community!

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Winter Wonderland

The students in Mrs. Ballard's class at Wildlight Elementary participated in a Winter Wonderland full of games & activities! The classroom transformation included a wintery scene of snowflakes & icicles!

After listening to How To Catch A Snowman, the students help retell the story & earn marble to play Thin Ice! Reading games included ice fishing, feeding the penguin, how to build a snowman sequencing, & winter writing the room! Math centers had the addition Don’t Break The Ice, Snowball Subtraction toss, find the baby penguin, and color by number snowman activity!

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Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle

As a part of the study of changes in matter, we read the book Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle and made pancakes with the help of a special guest.

Gifted Field Trip

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The Elementary Gifted Classes of Bryceville, Callahan, Hilliard, Yulee, and Wildlight recently traveled to Tifton, Georgia, to visit the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village. Upon arrival, the students were given pioneer clothes to wear for the day. They were divided into groups and rotated through different stations to learn first-hand about pioneer life. Some stations they visited were an old schoolhouse complete with teacher and lesson, doctor’s office, print shop, blacksmith, grist mill, feed and seed, farmhouse with farm, mercantile, and commissary. They also toured log cabins and learned how primitive life was back then. For lunch, the students were served chicken purlieu (chicken and rice with vegetables) cooked over an open fire, cornbread, fresh strawberry preserves, bread and butter pickles, and pound cake for dessert. They were also given chores to clean up and wash the dishes the “old-fashioned” way, stack firewood, sweep the wooden floors, and gather pinecones for the fire. It was a day spent reliving the past where students were emersed in learning.

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Flashes for Learning

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Stone Soup

Mrs. Olman's class at Hilliard Elementary just got through reading a discussing Stone Soup. The lesson of this story is always such a fun one to teach. We extended our learning of the story by creating and eating our very own class stone soup! The students brought in the different ingredients, and we put them together in a crockpot. By lunchtime, we were able to eat our yummy stone soup as a class while talking about the importance of how sharing can often make things better.