Flying High

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Poem Personification

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Railway Train

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Palm PowerPoint

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
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

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Collaboration

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
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

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
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...

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Integer Fun!

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Feature Articles

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Line up

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Story Time

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

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

Volume Lab

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Ralph leads her students through an activity measuring the volume of various containers of colored water. Students then reflect and write about their findings!

Map it Out

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Students in Mrs. Gibbs classroom (with the help of Mr. Flowers) design a map of GCMS with important landmarks identified. During their presentations they explain to other students how to get to certain destinations. A great activity for our new 7th graders!

Bingo!

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Lane's Algebra students practice their skills through a friendly game of Bingo.

Sour Ratios

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mr. Cole's class learns about ratios by taste testing lemonades with different lemon to sugar ratios.

Lab License

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Morgan's students begin the process of earning their Lab License by studying lab safety and measurement techniques.

Digits

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mr. Cole demonstrates the new Digits math series to his class. 7th and 8th Grade math classes can take advantage of using technology to sharpen their math skills.

Graph It

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mr. Potts students make a human bar graph to represent data collected.

High Five

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Students in Mrs. Lockard and Ms. Mills classes listed 5 unique characteristics on their hand. They then played a game to earn candy from one another.

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Sweet!

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Manning's class interviews each other using Skittles to determine what questions to ask.

Circle Time

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Woodward discusses with her class the expectations of the new year.

Spanish 1

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

GCMS welcomes Mrs. Phillips who is teaching our very first high school level Spanish 1 course .

Sculpting Out a Great 1st Day

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Story's class pair up with play-dough to make models representing their new friends favorites!

Student Scavenger Hunt

Tiffany Williams
Assistant Principal
Graves County Middle School

Mrs. Hayden's class gets to know each other the first day of school by searching the classroom to find students with certain characteristics.