Christmas Concert

The band, strings, and choir students sent us off to begin our Christmas Break with some Holiday tunes!

Olympics

Mrs. Gibbs classes held a Greek Olympics. Pictured, are students involved in chariot races.

Strings Concert

Our Strings, led by Ms. Hein, did an wonderful job getting the audience in the spirit at their annual Holiday Concert.

Layers of the Earth

Mrs. Morgan models how her class will trace scale drawings of the layers of the earth.

Winter Choir Concert

Mr. Walker led a festive night of holiday music with our middle school choir. Our choir boasts of over 90 students this year!

Cookin' Up Science

7th grade science teachers team-up in the kitchen to demonstrate the rock cycle.

Sugar Rocks

Mrs. Ralph's students use sugar cubes to model the adventure of traveling through the rock cycle.

How Does It End?

Mrs. Manning's students predict the ending to a short story in Patrick Carman's latest book. Tomorrow they will go online to watch the ending and see how close their prediction was.

Turkey Time

Mrs. Story's students use a "turkey" pre-write to organize their thoughts for a Thanksgiving short story.

Veteran's Day

Our own Coach Williams led GCMS students in an assembly honoring our veterans. Major Williams retired from the Armed Forces after serving our country for over 20 years.

Mathletes

Mr. Catlin sharpens his classes' basketball skills as they toss a ball and respond to practice problems.

Halloween Spooktacular

Our 7th grade science classes combined today for some Halloween science fun. Experiments that reinforced current learning in their classrooms were demonstrated with a holiday flare.

Governing Rules

Mr. Seaton's classes create new school rules and present them to the class by role playing different forms of government.

Science in the Round

Classes enjoyed science videos in the Dome Theater which brought the universe to them!

Spooky Stories

Mrs. Story's classes were invited to a masquerade ball hosted by Edgar Allen Poe and featuring the "phantom", Mr. Cole.

Cute Little Pumpkin

Mrs. Hayden's classes wrote Halloween stories today and personified their main characters through pumpkins that were donated by The Pumpkin Barn.

Star Wars Choir

Mr. Walker directs choir today as Luke Skywalker!

Spanish Spice

Mrs. Phillips leads her Spanish class dressed as a colorful señorita today!

Energy Guys

A traveling troop shares energy concepts with 8th graders during a comedic presentation.

Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Gibbs lead their students through a hands on experience of learning about overcoming barriers in ancient China.

Comic Strip

Students in Mrs. Hayden's class illustrate the first three chapters of The Giver through a comic strip.

Scan for History

Throughout the school students can scan codes to be directed to websites to further their history knowledge.

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Stuffed Mummy

Ms. Crowder leads Mrs. Willis's class through the mummification process in ancient Egypt using stuffed animals. She tied this activity into the chapter review.

Pyramids

Mr. Seaton's class builds pyramids as a background to their "most important facts" to help them study ancient Egypt.

Clap, Clap, Cup

Mrs. Hein's strings students experience first hand how to recover in a performance by practicing in a unique way.  They played music using cups and other objects in the round.

Blast from the Past

Mrs. Hayden's students enjoyed a commercial that she made when she was a freshman at GCHS and examined persuasive techniques as they followed along with their iPads.

Flying High

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Mrs. Morgan sets the stage for a paper airplane experiment her students will be designing.

Poem Personification

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Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Story's students decipher meaning from the personification used in the poem, "The Railway Train".

Railway Train

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Graves County Middle School

7th grade students act out the poem, "The Railway Train".

Palm PowerPoint

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Graves County Middle School

Students in Mrs. Ralph's class follow along with a PowerPoint on forming a hypothesis with their own iPads in front of them.

High Tech Math

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Mr. Cole's math students scan codes to reveal problems to be solved. They then scan again to check their answers.

Collaboration

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Graves County Middle School

Seventh grade students use Doodle Buddy on the iPad to calculate math problems.

Ready, Aim, Fire

PE classes, under the instruction of Mrs. Hicks and Mr. Williams, learn archery skills.

Penny Lab

Students in Mrs. Fain's class conduct an experiment to see how many drops of water the face of a penny can hold.

Sink or Float

Students in Mrs. Ralph's class discover density concepts while observing that diet colas float while regular drinks sink.

Variables

Mr. Waller's students explore variables in an experiment through measurement.

Cave Art

Mrs. Willis designed a hands-on cave experience for her social students students. They crawed through darkened tunnels with flashlights to examine cave drawings.

Archery

Mr. Williams explains safety procedures before students begin an archery unit in PE.

World Travel

Students board their first plane to Africa to begin their travel around the world though the study of history in Mrs. Willis's classroom.

Scavenger Hunt

Mrs. McManus leads her class through the school on a scavenger hunt for objects they can bring to life through personification.

"Inferencing" Music

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Graves County Middle School

Students in Mrs. Hayden's class form inferences by exploring pictures of album covers and making up titles of songs that might be included on the album.

Let's check...

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Graves County Middle School

Students in Mr. Potts class check their work using the inter-write pad.

Integer Fun!

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Mrs. Lane's students play a game to practice adding and subtracting integers.

Feature Articles

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Mrs. Paitsel's students classify feature articles they have collected by their purpose.

Line up

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Mr. Lile's students examine characteristics of lines in each others artwork.

Story Time

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Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Story's classes explore books available in the library by having a circle share.