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Thank you for not smoking
Students studying Life Skill at LMS recently
addressed several issues concerning the dangers of smoking.
Cigarette smoking is not as
dangerous as some people say.
It's easy to quit smoking.
Smoking is not something I
will have to worry about until I'm old.
Most people smoke
cigarettes.
Smoking is cool and
sophisticated.
These are myths that students in
Kathy Cox’s LifeSkills class at Lauderdale Middle School
addressed in their recent unit the myths and realities of
smoking.
Students were assigned a project
to either write a two-page paper or do a poster containing
"facts" about smoking to disprove the myths.
“The students worked hard and
came up with really good reports and original posters that gave
a lot of the realities of smoking,” said Cox. “The source of
choice seemed to be the Internet. Students found a lot of up to
date data concerning the ill effects of smoking along with very
graphic photos.
The students seemed to be most
impressed by the pictures.”
During class discussions, most
students declared that they would never smoke after seeing what
it does to a person's body, according to Cox, who said that some
students even talked about begging their parents, grandparents,
and older siblings to stop smoking.
Laptops available for sixth
graders
Sixth grade classes across the
county are turning their classrooms into computer labs with
technology available thanks to a renewed contract between Apple
and the Lauderdale County School System. As a part of the
contract, the laptops used by teachers in the system were
updated and their old ones were designated for use in
sixth-grade classes at both Lauderdale Middle School and Halls
Elementary School. Carts that store and charge the laptops were
also provided by Apple as a part of the contract. Lauderdale
Middle School students are pictured trying their hand at the new
technology.
New program aids in high
school course selection
Lauderdale Middle School seventh and eighth graders are pictured
taking the Kuder test, a new program that broadens career
development for students preparing to begin their high school
careers. The innovative program has been implemented system-wide
this year.
Seventh- and eighth-grade students at Lauderdale Middle
School are busy taking the Kuder Career Interest Inventory, an
initiative program to broaden career development for students
choosing their high school coursework. The Kuder program has
been implement system-wide this year.
Seventh graders participating in the program will receive a
head start on next year’s high school assessment, while eighth
graders are using the results to choose a career path and the
courses that will point them in the right direction. The results
of this assessment will be used in helping eighth graders, their
parents, and high school advisors to select courses for their
high school years and beyond.
LMS staff members Dianne Lane, Lynda Cliff and Kathy Cox are
currently working with students to complete the assessments and
begin the first step in planning their high school and college
careers.
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