Jordak Elementary School third-graders Ivy K. and Nova Y. have been selected as Cleveland Cavaliers Straight A All-Stars.
CAVS Straight A All-Stars
Jordak Elementary School third-graders Ivy K. and Nova Y. have been selected as Cleveland Cavaliers Straight A All-Stars.
Every year the Cavs and Westfield Insurance reward K-8 students in Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties who receive straight A’s in the first and second grading periods. All of those students receive personalized certificates and a special prize.
In addition, 300 students are randomly chosen to receive two tickets to a Cavs home game and an official Straight A All-Stars T-shirt. Ivy and Nova were two of the 300 randomly chosen for tickets and they enjoyed the Cavs game on Saturday, March 3.
Cardinal Reading Projects
Third-graders are once again showing off their reading projects in Mrs. Cardinal’s class. Students had to read a book of their choosing, create a scene from the book and then give a brief presentation on their book and what they created. There are some really fantastic projects on display at JES – stories covered everything from Captain Underpants to the Titanic.
Water Works
Science guy Mr. Zurbuch recently visited Mrs. Darcy Horvath’s first-grade class to talk about hot and cold, with the underlying lesson of hot things are light and rise, and cold things are heavy and sink.
For their experiment, students broke up into groups and had to fill four containers with water – two hot and two cold. Mr. Z “color-coded” the water so that the hot water was red and the cold water was blue. After filling all of their containers, students then placed a plastic square on one red container and one blue one. Mr. Z and Mrs. Horvath then came around and flipped the containers with the squares on them over so one had hot water stacked on top of cold and vice versa. Students then held the containers as Mr. Z and Mrs. Horvath slowly wiggled the plastic divider out and watched to see how the hot and cold either mixed or didn’t mix with each other based on which one was up and which one was down.
Containers with red/hot water on top stayed separated, but containers with blue/cold water on top mixed with the red water to make purple. Students were in awe over the experiment – it was a great depiction of the lesson.
CMS Paw Pride
Cardinal Middle School Paw Pride winners for the week ending March 16 are fifth-graders Maria M., Mitchell M., Mason G., Isabella W. and Laila M.; sixth-graders Carissa L., Hanna H., Allie B., Troy F. and Dakota M.; seventh-graders Brandon S., Hennessy M., Zac S., David B. and Josh T.; and eighth-grader Malachi B.
