After visiting Santa in the morning, Garfield students participated in holiday rotations in the afternoon, listening and dancing to Christmas music, playing holiday BINGO, and decorating and eating sugar cookies. Winter recess is only one and a half days away.
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Students ice their sugar cookies.
One girl jokes with another about the mountain of sprinkles she is using on her cookie.
Students play a game of holiday B-I-N-G-O.
Two students finish making their snowflakes.
A little girl uses a knife to put red icing on her cookie.
A girl and boy ice their cookies.
Paras and aides assist students with making snowflakes out of coffee filters.
Someone helps two students with icing their cookies.
A couple of students dance to a Christmas song.
As he has for more than 40 years, Santa Claus slipped in a personal visit to Garfield School to listen to students' Christmas wishes, and offer them a candy cane and a smile. Santa was informed that some parents don't believe in him, but lots of children assured him they do!
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
A little girl shares her Christmas wish list.
A little girl shares her Christmas wish list.
A little boy shares his Christmas wish list.
A little boy shares his Christmas wish list.
A little boy shares his Christmas wish list.
A little boy shares his Christmas wish list.
A little boy shares his Christmas wish list.
A little girl shares her Christmas wish list.
A little girl shares her Christmas wish list.
A little boy laughs with Santa.
Guthridge students in Mrs. Brimm's fifth grade enjoyed a fun activity Tuesday afternoon - making colorful, stained glass Christmas trees using tissue paper and glue. It was a nice break from testing and regular assignments.
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A girl glues torn pieces of tissue paper onto her tree.
A girl holds her tree up to the light.
A girl checks out how her tree looks at the halfway point.
A boy holds up the tree he is making.
First grade students were fingertip deep in frosting and full of smiles while decorating gingerbread houses and listening to holiday music this morning, courtesy of their first grade teachers and Miss Kinley who prepared the houses and plates of colorful goodies to cover them.
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
A boy and a girl decorate their gingerbread houses.
A boy proudly shows his decorations that make a smiley face on the roof.
Students decorate their houses.
Two gierls giggle and one licks frosting from her fingers.
Students decorate their gingerbread houses.houses.
First grde teachers prepare plates of goodies to decorate the gingerbread houses.
Student discuss their decorations.
A boy and a girl decorate their gingerbread houses.
Students decorate their gingerbread houses.
Two boys stand in line, holding their gingerbread houses on a plate.
In one of the PHS Library rooms, Dakota Ginn uses a little free time to quietly practice playing his guitar and singing the lyrics he wrote to a new song. While unable to take lessons in school this coming semester, he plans to take guitar all next year to hone his skills.
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Dakota Ginn practices playing his guitar.
Congrats to a few of our PHS guys on getting All State HM from KSHSAA Covered. Brelin Summers - DE Makai Baugh - DB Demonta Kendrick - DL Damais Johnson - OL https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15V9Yz1cHr/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Viking head and word Parsons.
PHS FCCLA students volunteered today to help unpack nonperishable food items and distribute them amongst 800 Stella Wells Christmas food boxes lining the floor of the Sutherland building. The students got to work side-by-side with descendants of Stella Wells who came to help.
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
A student pushes a cart of food while another unloads it into Christmas boxes.
PHS girls fill boxes with food.
Two girls districute food.
A young man puts canned goods into boxes.
A girl puts food into Christmas boxes.
PHS students and others fill Christmas boxes with food.
Three students put food in Christmas boxes.
FCCLA sponsor Courtney Shaffer brings in a cart of boxes of food for her students to inpack and distribute..
A group of girls unpack boxes.
Two girls umpack boxes of pancake mix to distribute into food boxes.
PHS Honor Flight students were among those helping place wreaths on veterans' graves during the first Wreaths Across America event held Saturday at the historical Oakwood Cemetery. The Parsons Historical Museum board set up the event - a tribute to the lives of those who served.
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Two gravestones with wreaths frame the VFW color guard.
Two girls and Mrs. Shaffer put wreaths on graves,
A group of PHS girls put wreaths on graves.
A PHS Hopnor Flight student puts a wreath on a grave.
PHS students and staff put wreaths on graves.
A PHS girl puts a wreath on a grave.
PHS Honor Flight stufents put wreaths on graves.
PHS students and staff put wreaths on graves.
Three PHS boys put wresths on graves.
The Wresths Across America Ceremony in progress.
PHS art students were challenged to design, create and decorate a chair that would hold the weight of PHS Assistant Principal Tyler Thompson. Only two creations landed Mr. Thompson on the floor as they collapsed. The student body votes for their favorite one. Winner gets a pizza.
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A red throne made of cardboard.
Mr. Thompson falls tot he floor as the red throne collapses.
Mr. thomspon tests the gingerbread house bench and finds it sturdy.
A chair made to look like an angry toilet.
Mr. Thompsn raises his feet to test the toilet. It holds but starts to tip.
Mr. Thomspon tests a blue lounge chair and finds it holds him.
Mr. Thompson relaxes in the beach lounger.
A sloeup of the black throne.
Mr. Thompson crashes to the floor after sitting on the black throne.
Graphic Design students are busy in Mrs. Telfer's class wrapping up end of semester work they are doing for others, as well as personal projects and assignments.
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
A student and Mrs. Telfer work on student banners.
Mrs. Telfer assist students with a mouse pad project.
A student uses a machine to cut cards made by graphics students.
A huge thanks to the First Presbyterian Church for carrying on the tradition of Angel Shoes this year, using generous church and community donations to provide 46 children from Guthridge and Parsons Middle School with new shoes from the Shoe Dept this holiday season.
6 months ago, Colleen Williamson
A staff member helps a student see if the shoes are the right size.
A staff member helps a boy find a pair of shoes he likes.
A church member helps a little girl find the right size shoes.
Staff and church members help students find shoes.
A little girl pulls paper out of the inside of a new boot to try it on.
A gilr tries on a pair of blakc whiote and pink tennis shoes.
A little girl holds a shoe up to the boots she is wearing to see if they are about the same size.
An employee of SHoe Dept helps a young man find a pair of tennis shoes.
A little girl is excited to see the new shoe on her foot.
Employees of SHpoe Dept. check the last pairs of shoes to make sure they are the right size.
Students in Mr. Gilpin's construction class assembled a new couch for the regulation room at PHS. Kristina Mayhue received a $605 Parsons Educational Foundation mini grant to upgrade the room. She also ordered a lighted, noise machine and puzzles, as well as hygiene items.
7 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Two students assemble the small couch while Mr. Gilpin observes.
Two students assemble the small couch while Mr. Gilpin observes.
Students place the assembled couch.
A lady tests the sound machine.
Two ladies talk about the puzzles and how many they will put out at once.
a box with 12 puzzles in it.
A cabinet of feminine hygiene products.
Mrs. Liska's class, at Garfield School, learned about the history of pomanders from volunteer/mentor Mrs. Lubbers, who then guided them in making their own to take home for the holidays. While students made their pomanders, Mrs. Lubbers also read them a holiday story.
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Students learned about the history of Pomanders and saw pictures of what some look like made with oranges and cloves.
Mrs. Lubbers shows students how to poke their oranges to push the cloves in.,
Students push cloves into their oranges to create designs.
Students push cloves into their oranges to create designs.
A student pushes cloves into her ornage.
Students push cloves into their oranges to create designs.
Students push cloves into their oranges to create designs.
Students push cloves into their oranges to create designs.
Mrs. Lubbers reads a story to students.
Minutes from the November 11, 2024 Board of Education Meeting: https://5il.co/32t6s
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Parsons Middle School students are experimenting with clay in art class and are taking on making ornaments as a first project, while learning about the properties of the clay and how to work with this art medium.
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A studet trims the edges of her candy cane shaped ornament.
A student uses a tool to get detail on her ornament.
A student works on his dachshund ornament.
A student works on his Charlie Brown ornament.
A student looks over his fish ornament.
A student looks on as Mrs. Fabrycky demonstrates how to use a damp sponge to smooth the edges of his ornament.
Parsons Middle School students in Mr. Campmier's FACS class are learning how to make soft pretzels. In small groups Tuesday, they mixed ingredients and kneaded their dough. Next they will be able to shape the dough, boil it and bake it to a golden brown.
7 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Three boys take turns stirring ingredients in a bowl.
Mr. Campmier guides a group of girls as to their next step, which is kneading their dough.
Three girls work on kneading their dough.
Four boys work on kneading their dough.
Five girls work together to knead dough.
Parsons Middle School students in Mr. Ozier's science class are studying cells. They had a chance to create a model of a cell using traditional materials or to make edible versions, like some of these models made of cake and topped with various candies.
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A student holds up her cell cake.
A student holds up her cell cake.
A student holds up his cell cake.
A students cell cake in which they used candies to replicate the parts of the model.
A student used play dough to make a cell model.
A student used a styrofoam ball to make a cell model.
Thank you Parsons Educational Foundation for a mini grant providing all first grade students with handheld erasable white boards that are blank on one side and lined on the other. Reusing the boards for assignments all year allows for tremendous cost savings and reduces waste.
7 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Students hold up white boards spelling out Thank You.
Students hold up white boards spelling out thank you.
Students hold up whiteboards with hearts and stars and the words thank you.
Learning to weld can provide students skills and abilities they can use not only to build and repair items of utility, but also to be creative artistically, like these three students who are creating a small robot made of scrap metal, parts, old tools and pieces of hardware.
7 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Three students work on welding a small roboto made of pieces of metal, old tools, and other items.
Thr front side pof the robot is shown
PHS drafting students looked on as O'Brien Ready Mix arrived at PHS Monday morning to pour concrete into the forms Heck & Wicker Construction are building for PHS students to construct the iron colonnade they have designed for the Five Pathways to Freedom Veterans Memorial.
7 months ago, Colleen Williamson
Concrete slides down the chute into one of the forms.
A worker uses a pice of equipment to stir the concrete and eliminate air pockets.
One worker smooths the concrete on one form while two others work to ppour the second.
Bruce Rea's students look on as the forms are poured.