Students in the News!

Good morning!!

Pictures will be on the way, but in the meantime, our student engineers are featured in yesterday's Newport Daily News.

You can read it here:

http://newportdailynews.ri.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=29df66f7e


Enjoy!

Ms. Tuttle

SeaPerch and PARCC testing

Field Trip Forms

Please ensure the SeaPerch permission slip is returned tomorrow, if it has not yet been turned in.

Groups are already organized and are working with their teams to "fly" their ROVs.

If you need another copy, it is posted on Classroom (Science).


Testing:
Here are some practice sites if you want to play for the math PARCC to get used to some of the tools.

Math

http://www.play2pass.com/math.html

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/math/

http://www.mathplayground.com/

PARCC Tutorials (Used to help students familiarize themselves with the test environment)

https://parcc.pearson.com/tutorial/

Tech Tune Up for Parcc - Reviews Tech Skills needed to take parcc

https://sites.google.com/site/obtechtuneupforparcc/home

School Committee Presentation

Several students shared their work last night at the Jamestown School Committee. This was their project work from egg labels and their meanings.

Check them out in action!

Summer Camp Scholarships

Greetings,

There is an opportunity for students to win a scholarship to Hurricane Island summer camp, a week-long summer science camp in Maine.

Students were offered the application this week. They are due by May 23. More applications are available from Mrs. Goodburn or myself.

More info on hurricaneisland.net.
There are 3 $1400 scholarships available for Jamestown students entering 7, 8, or 9th grade.

Thanks!
Ms. Tuttle

ROV in the classroom

See the Jamestown School official facebook page for videos of the students in action:
https://www.facebook.com/jamestownschool/

Finishing up last steps in the classroom in preparation for soldering the circuit boards on Friday.