- April 25, 2024
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+ Belle Terre students raise $3,586 for heart health
Students at Belle Terre Elementary school raised $3,586.93 for the American Heart Association through their annual Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.
“This year our school goal was $2,000, which may not seem like much, but we know these are tight money times,” said Physical Education Teacher Julie Menendez. “The students really stood up to the plate and exceeded our expectations.”
One kindergarten student, Colin Milbrandt, topped them all by raising $295 all by himself.
+ Imagine students hatch chickens
After 21 days of monitoring the humidity and temperature of the incubater in James Menard’s first-grade class at Imagine School at Town Center, seven baby chicks hatched: Lucky, Happy Feet, Chicken Little, Whitey, Siren, Beaker and Peep. After the chicks grow bigger and stronger, they will be relocated to a cattle farm in Bunnell.
“This has been a fabulous learning opportunity, and has made my classroom the most popular place to be in the school as students from all grades are stopping by to see the baby chicks and to watch them grow,” Menard said.
+ Legacy Program students visit Tallahassee
Five students from the Princess Place Legacy Program attended the fourth-annual Raise Your Voice for Service-Learning Conference, in Tallahassee.
Michael Ferry, Raksmey Prum, Rebecca Ryan, Briana Schoenleber and Tyler Wilkinson traveled with their teacher, Hala Laquidara, to the two-day conference.
Recently, all students in the program gave tours to students from Wadsworth Elementary and Phoenix Academy.
“The tours present all service-learning aspects,” Laquidara said. “The best way to learn is to teach somebody, and then you never forget it.”
Students gave tours of the butterfly garden, the Blue Trail and the Princess Place Lodge and gave demonstrations on arthropods, reptiles, the watershed model and how to make green cleaning products.
The Legacy Program is an alternative program for students with low grades.
“The ones that come to us are good students, but have no idea why the aren’t doing well,” Laquidara said. “We look at them and say, ‘You can be an ‘A’ student, so we’re going to work with you.’”
