- April 23, 2024
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+ Imagine student wins district Spelling Bee
Ivana Moore, seventh-grade student at Imagine School at Town Center won the Flagler County Spelling Bee.
Moore is also an accomplished violinist.
+ Flagler Palm Coast High learns suicide prevention
To promote Suicide Prevention Week at Flagler Palm Coast High School, the Student Government Association taped yellow eco-friendly balloons to each table in the lunchroom, with a suicide prevention flyer.
The flyer instructed students to “release negative thoughts,” gave them warning signs to look for in friends who they fear may have suicidal thoughts, and gave a list of people to turn to if they find themselves in that situation.
The SGA members went table-to-table passing out markers and encouraging students to write on the balloons. They wrote the things that stress them out, sent a message to a loved one who took his or her own life or gave encouraging words to someone in trouble.
During the last five minutes of each lunch wave, students met in the outside eating area and released the balloons.
“Did every student take it seriously? No,” said SGA adviser Cheryl Perry. “But making a difference to just one student could save a life. That’s what we were going for.”
+ Second-grade student is first to earn 100 Reading Counts points
Jacob Laura is the first second-grade student at Wadsworth Elementary School to earn 100 Reading Counts points.
“This is quite an honor, and we are all very proud of his accomplishments,” said his teacher, Debbie Kryspin. “Our reading coach, Amy Neuenfeldt, told Jacob that some sixth-grade students have not reached this goal yet.”
Reading Counts is a program that allows students to take comprehension quizzes on selected books. The books are assigned points based on the degree of reading difficulty. This is a research-based program and supports the theory that children who read more often are more fluent readers and achieve higher comprehension skills.
+ Students learn money skills in classroom
Students in Lauren Summerlot’s fourth-grade class at Belle Terre Elementary School are getting a head start on their checkbook skills.
Summerlot implemented checkbooks in her classroom, not only to enhance adding and subtracting skills, but also as a way to reward students — with an allowance in the classroom.
“I was scared at first,” the second-year teacher admitted. “But it has really caught on.”
Students receive fake bucks for good test grades, finishing all their homework and helping each other out in class. But they lose money if they don’t finish their homework.
Summerlot said she sees an even split in her class between students who save their bucks and those who spend them right away.
“It’s interesting because they say, ‘I don’t have enough money for this yet,’” she said.
Gage Winecoff, who is a self-proclaimed saver, said he is learning how to not waste his money. With $63 in his bank, Winecoff is saving for a homework pass, set at the steep price of $75.
