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LMS students get prepared
Students in Mrs. Marti Locke’s eighth-grade American History
classes at Lauderdale Middle School have adopted “Be Prepared”
as their motto this year. To aid the students in preparing their
upcoming high school path, Locke had each student in her class
interview a person who attended college and create a poster of a
college they might like to attend. The students were instructed
to find out what requirements were needed to attend the school
they had chosen and what programs the universities offered.
Auburn University, The University of Florida, Rhodes College,
Arkansas State, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville,
Spelman College and even a college for tattoo artists were among
those chosen to be featured on posters.
Biomes subject of LMS students’ study
Students in Mrs. Karen Norfolk’s class at Lauderdale Middle
School recently completed a unit on the world's biomes. Members
of the eighth-grade science class gave oral presentations for
their peers, and a classroom vote selected the top three
projects to be displayed in the hall outside their room.
LMS holds “Pajama Day”
To encourage students to get
their AR points and reward good behavior, several sixth-grade
teachers at Lauderdale Middle School recently hosted Pajama Day.
Students who had not received any disciplinary slips were
allowed to wear their pajamas to school, with extra time set
aside for reading AR books during the day. All the students were
given time to snuggle up with a snack and a good book.
LMS students help with
landscaping chores
Sixth- through eighth-grade
students in Mrs. Dawn Spangler’s self-contained class at
Lauderdale Middle School are pictured taking pride in their
school by performing a service for the community. Each day these
students water the flowers and landscaped areas around the
school building, doing their part to help keep the plants
healthy and attractive for the enjoyment of fellow students and
guests who visit the school.
LMS students bring samples of
science lesson to class
LMS
sixth-grade science students study live samples of hornworms in
class.
Students on
Lauderdale Middle School’s sixth-grade wing studying
“parasitism” in their science classes found something familiar
to them on the pages of their textbooks.
When a photo
of a tomato hornworm covered with parasitic eggs caught their
eye, several students in Mrs. Carole White’s science class
decided to search the local fields of Ripley tomatoes to see if
they could find a real-life specimen to study. Not only did they
find specimen of the hornworm, many students brought the insect,
complete with parasitic eggs, into White’s classroom where all
the sixth-grade science classes were able to see them up close.
"We’ve never
had the students bringing them in like this before,” said White.
“We’ve had baby wasps hatching in our classroom.”
Fellow
sixth-grade teacher Karen Webb said that all the classes
benefited from the lesson, “We just passed the specimens up and
down the hall.”
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