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.