- April 26, 2024
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Old Kings: Are you ready to ZUMBA?
Are you ready to ZUMBA? Even if you have two left feet, come out and support Old Kings Elementary School 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, at its Zumbathon.
Zumba Instructor and parent of an Old Kings student, Michaela King, will lead many routines. There may even be special guest appearances by a beloved P.E. coach and other Old Kings staff.
Adults are $10 each and students are $5 each. Children under 5 are free. No tickets will be sold ahead of time. Adults will be getting their groove on and burning off holiday calories in the cafeteria while students participate in fun activities in the gym. Children under 5 will be in the nursery area.
Anyone may attend, no Zumba experience required.
Rymfire hosts first math night
What do you get when you add 300 parents and students, school administrators and staff, 35 teachers, the school district’s math curriculum coordinator and 50 Dominos’ Pizzas?
An evening of math and fun at Rymfire Elementary’s first Math Night.
While kindergarten thru sixth-grade students enjoyed playing math games and winning ‘bucket bucks’ in the multipurpose room with their teachers, parents were sent to the media room, where they were provided with an abundance of tools to help their children not only succeed but excel in mathematics.
The prominent feature of the web-based math games presented is that they can be tailored to the needs of the student and his or her abilities. They are not grade-dependent but rather adaptable to the student’s current skill set. This allows students to learn and progress at an optimal level.
Matanzas students build remote vehicles
Students in Chris Feist’s marine science class at Matanzas High School are approaching science in a whole new way, by building remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and outfitting them with scratch-built hydrophones, or underwater microphones, thanks to help from the Flagler Palm Coast Amateur Radio Club.
The ROVs are funded from a grant from seaperch.org and the Office of Naval Research. The students build remotely operated vehicless powered by a tether-electrical connection.
The students control the vehicles via a control box on land. Feist extended the project by adding hydrophones through a grant made possible by the Flagler County Education Association’s Dell Trayer Grant.
The hydrophone will allow students to hear sea life.
Feist said that the tying of sounds an ecosystem produces to the sounds ‘baseline’ of that ecosystem, then extending that to measure the health of that ecosystem, is a totally new perspective of underwater ecologic assessment.
The long range goal of these grants includes a service learning component, where Feist's students will go to area schools to conduct mini lessons and teach other students what they’ve learned, and ultimately to use their ROV’s outfitted with the hydrophones in the local marine environment. Feist has hopes that both of these goals will be reached in the spring.
District receives model designations
A Positive Behavior Support Model School is one that has met specific criteria and has reported innovative, creative and functional ways of supporting positive school climate and increased academic performance And recently, four Flagler County Public Schools have received Model School designations from Florida’s Positive Behavior Support Project: A Mult-Tiered Support System (PBS:MTSS).
“For schools to qualify, they must identify data based on behavioral targets, show samples of Positive Behavior Support strategies that were utilized to build improvements, and then show data-driven results,” said Ellen Kincaid, behavior specialist for the district. “All levels are extremely difficult to attain, and each school did an outstanding job.”
The designations are as follows: Gold Standard Model School: Buddy Taylor Middle School and Rymfire Elementary; Silver Standard Model School: Flagler Palm Coast High School; and Bronze Standard Model School: Old Kings Elementary.
To learn more about Florida’s Positive Behavior Support Model and see a full description of Model School Designations visit flpbs.fmhi.usf.edu/index.cfm.
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