Graves County Middle School Spotlights



Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Concert

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






Monday, December 12, 2011

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.




Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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!




Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Cookin' Up Science


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





Monday, November 21, 2011

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.




Saturday, November 12, 2011

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.








Monday, October 31, 2011

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 seƱorita today!





Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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.