This free event will showcase early learning opportunities available in the community and offer free educational activities for children 3-5 years old and their parents.
For more information, view the community flyers section on the Miamisburg City Schools website at www.miamisburgcityschools.org.
Bear students contest winners
Vectren and The National Energy Foundation sponsored an Energy Safe Kid Program at Bear Elementary School. After the presentation, the students were given information on how to enter a video contest. It was their chance to be movie producers. The class created a 90-second video that applied the concepts from Vectren’s Energy Safe Kids classroom presentation. It also correlated with the Ohio Academic Standards in Science, Technology, and Language Arts. Fourth grade students, assisted by Mr. Eckhart, Mr. Snell and Ms. Mahoney, created props, a musical lyric, and some pretty good acting to put together this video. The theme was “call 811 before you dig.”
The deadline for the contest was Dec. 12 and on Jan. 16, Vectren announced that Bear Elementary School won third place and a classroom grant for $500. Bear students also won the “Most Creative” prize, which came along with another classroom grant of $350. The grants will be used to help pay for a trip to the state capital in May.
Kinder students receive handmade hats
Kinder Elementary School teacher Tracy Barnhart recently received hand-made hats for each one of her fifth grade students. Her 92-year-old great aunt, Donna McNutt, over the past several years has used her knitting loom to make around 1,200 hats for her family and the area needy and homeless.
It takes McNutt approximately six hours to complete each hat. She keeps a journal of the colors of yarn she uses and where she sends each and every hat, keeping accurate count of each one. Now, a delivery of 23 to Kinder has been added to her journal. The Kinder students created a special thank you card for McNutt.
New graduation requirements
New graduation requirements will take effect with the class of 2018. These are students who enter ninth grade for the first time in the 2014-2015 school year. The new requirements did not change the courses or number of course credits required for students to be eligible for graduation. The requirements changed the state testing process students will engage in during their high school career and the graduation points they will earn on seven end-of-course exams.
Students will take end-of-course exams in English 9, English 10, Algebra I, Geometry, Physical Science, American History and American Government. The end-of-course exams (EOCE) consist of two parts, one given 75 percent of the way through the school year and one given 90 percent of the way through the school year. Students will participate in the EOCE related to their currently enrolled courses.
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