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May 26 - 30
Three Sisters Planting
Junior High Students participated in some Three Sisters planting on Monday. Mounds were created to plant beans, corn and squash. The mounds contained garden soil as well as ash, manure and dried grass. Students will observe any difference in growth between the different soil combinations. Three sisters gardening originated with the Haudenosaunee who planted corn, beans and squash (the most important crops) in a way that complemented each other in the garden as well as nutritionally.
May 19 - 23
What is electroculture?
Electroculture is a gardening method that incorporates atmospheric electricity to promote plant growth. It involves placing conductive materials, such as metal rods or wires, into the soil around plants, with the belief that they act as antennas to capture "free" energy and direct it toward the plants. The theory behind electroculture suggests that these elements can modulate subtle energy fields, influencing positive plant development. While the science has been around for a long time, it is still evolving. The concept is rooted in the understanding that plants are naturally responsive to subtle electrical signals within their environment.
Students used twigs as their dowel and wrapped copper wire around them to see if adding these to potted plants will result in better plant growth. Students also experimented with different lengths and types of soil.
May 12 - 16
Dioramas
Grade 8 & 9 students wrote short stories and then created a diorama that depicted an important scene from their story.
May 5 - 9
Junior High Camping Trip
Students had an amazing time on the overnight camping trip to Nordegg!
Spring Market
Junior High entrepreneurs hosted another market, showing off their creativity and entrepreneurial skills. Thank you to all who came out to support the students.
April 28 - May 2
Visit from a Police Officer
NHCS regularly gets visits from local police officers. It is a great opportunity for students to interact with them in a way that makes them seem more approachable.
April 23 - 25
Junior High Open House
Junior High students volunteered to help out at the Open House by sharing some of their experiences of what it is like to go to school at NHCS.
Heart Dissection
Grade 8 and 9 students enjoyed some up close interactions with beef hearts. In connection with Science, students were able to learn more about the heart by dissecting beef hearts, exploring the outer and inner parts of them. Grade 5 students also came to observe and participate.
April 14 - 17
Grade 8/9 Social Studies
Students created biography posters in Social Studies.
Grade 8 students chose important historical figures from Renaissance Europe and grade 9 students chose a politician who is currently running in the federal election.
Tallow Making
Josee from Reckless Ranch came out to teach junior high students, in the Back to Basics option, all about tallow making.
April 7 - 11
Barnyard Jobs
Students helped out with some
jobs around the barnyard and had
some time to interact with the
animals.
Beaverhill Bird Observatory
Junior High Students participated in a presentation given by the Beaverhill Bird Observatory. Students learned about the observatory, the birds they have under their care as well as more information about birds in Alberta. The presenter brought an owl which added an extra level of excitement to the presentation
Hello Spring!
Students enjoyed the warm weather by having their math class outside enjoying the warm sunshine.
March 24 - 28
Research Projects
The Junior High students just completed round 2 of their research projects. Presentations took place on Wednesday. Some of the topics were garden towers, taste of beef, whorl patterns on cows and rodeo events.
Why didn't the eggs hatch?
Gr. 8/9 students had the opportunity to examine eggs that did not hatch in the incubator. After cracking them all, examining them and discussing their observations, students then went around to the other classes to share what was found in the unhatched eggs.
March 17 - 21
Math Fair - Students had the opportunity to share their math knowledge with others at this year's Math Fair.
High Heels and Spurs Self-Esteem Program
Girls in grades 5 - 9 were able to participate in a self-esteem program delivered by Tiffany Dowhan.
March 11 - 14
Pi Day
Grade 8/9 students made pies in recognition of Pi Day on March 14.
March 3 - 7
Curling
The Winter Sports Option went curling on March 4 and then all of grades 6 - 9 went on March 6. It was great to see our experienced curlers step up as leaders and teachers to help students with less experience. Fun was had by all!!
February 24 - 28
Snow Shoeing
It was a beautiful day to to be outdoors, having some snow shoeing fun during the Winter Sports Option!
Spirit Week - Students demonstrated their school spirit by dressing up. Here are some pictures for Decades Day , Crazy Hair Day and Anything But a Backpack Day.
Students are excitedly waiting for the lambs to arrive. It looks to be close at hand!
February 18 - 21
Advanced Equine and Canine Sports Massage and Vertebral Realignment Therapist
Students had the opportunity to learn from Capri Jasper, an equine and canine massage and vertebral therapist. She demonstrated her skills on a steer and the goats, explaining how to look for issues and what to do to help their bodies realign.
February 10 - 14
Student Volunteers
We are so lucky to have so many students willing to help out when needed. A number of students have helped clear the rink in order for students to enjoy some skating.
Winter Sports
Students spent some time out on the ice during the Winter Sports option.
February 3 - 6
Growth Mindset
Students have been reviewing ways to have a positive growth mindset. When we make mistakes on the way to meeting goals that we set for ourselves, we need to remember that it is all part of the learning and growth process. Posters were made to motivate others to work through the struggles that they may face on the way to achieving their goals.
January 27 - 31
Project Based Learning
Grade 8 students worked on two projects in the month of January.
One was in math and one in science. The math projects had students creating farm related replicas using 3D objects. The science project involved creating a device that involved the use of a hydraulics system. The effort put into these projects and the results were awesome. some grade 9 students chose to participate as well. Stay tuned for information on grade 9 projects.
January 20 - 24
New Options
One of the new options starting is Winter
Sports. Students are learning how to
play broomball. The other option, taught
by Mrs. Klatt is photography.
Math Games with the Gr. 6s
December 16 - 20
SEED Day - Christmas Greens Arrangements
Students learned how to take greens i.e. cedar, pine, furs and use them to create attractive table arrangements for the holidays.
December 9 - 13
Winter Fair
After a lot of hard work, students were
able to present to present their entrepreneurial
projects at the Winter Fair. Customers were
extremely impressed with the quality of the
products being sold. Great job, students!
December 2 - 6
Weigh In Day
A better procedure was figured out
for weighing the hogs as we continue to
collect data on their growth.
Research Project Presentations
After many months of working on their research projects,
the junior high students were ready to present their findings.
They did an amazing job on their projects as well as on their
presentations. Thanks to Olds College for partnering with NHCS.
November 25 - 29
Student Council - The Junior High Student Council is up and running. Here they are preparing for their first board meeting.
Glow in the Dark Barnyard
NHCS students created an amazing glow in the dark experience for families attending parent teacher conference. The grade 8/9 students contributed by creating a tractor, fence panels and the barn entrance. I hope you had a chance to check it out. Great work everyone!
Twin Day - Students dressed up as twins for this school spirit day.
November 18 - 22
Nature Picture and Paragraph Writing
Students identified something that was important to them (people, a passion, a hobby, animals, etc.) and then drew a picture of it using found objects in nature. They then used this as inspiration to write a detailed paragraph explaining what the drawing represented.
Vet Visit
NHCS students had yet another opportunity to see first hand what work of a veterinarian. They were able to watch a demonstration of local vet, Dr. , do a pregnancy check on the NHCS ewes.
Student Council Elections
Junior High students wrote speeches and presented them to their classmates on Friday. The speeches were written to convince their peers to vote for them for a particular position on Student Council. The elections will take place on Monday. Students on the board will meet with Mrs. Kohel, periodically, to discuss student concerns, they will meet as a council to plan activities for Junior High and the rest of the school and they will have the opportunity to meet with the school board as well.
November 4 - 8
Pig Weighing - It was time to weigh the pigs again. Mrs. Besler's plan made the weighing much easier this time.
Remembrance Day Ceremony
All classes came to the gym at 10:45 am to take part in the Remembrance Day ceremony. Thank you to the Grade 6 class for preparing and running the ceremony,
Mix and Flow of Matter Experiments - Grade 8 students completed experiments testing liquids for high or low viscosity, density and buoyancy.
October 28 - 31
Halloween - We had a fantastic Halloween day in Junior High! It was enjoyable to see everyone dressed up. The grade 8 and 9 students completed two Halloween art projects. One was a three dimensional pumpkin using pastels and the other one was a more abstract Halloween drawing, also using pastels. The day ended with the sostume parade in the gym.
Ear Notching - students learned about the practice of ear notching that some hog producers use to keep track of their pigs. Ask your junior high student to explain to you how it works.
Origami - The grade 8 students are currently learning about Japanese history and one of the topics was How can culture and art flourish in isolation? Art was integrated into this social studies unit by having students learn how to create origami flowers.
Foods - Students were given the task to create a dish using a variety of ingredients. The dishes created were pancakes, French toast, cheesy scrambled eggs, tacos and hamburger pasta. The class did an excellent job!
October 21 - 25
Lynx and Hare
The grade 9 students are learning about Biological Diversity and how species relate to other species. The grade 9 and 8 students played a game that showed the predator and prey relationship between the lynx and hair. The game highlighted how this relationship benefits both species and what happens when the population of one increases or decreases.
NHCS Board Meeting
The junior high presentations went extremely well at last week's board meeting. Congratulations to the students who worked on their public speaking skills as they shared with the board members and guests what has been taking place in junior high so far this year. We also had three students recognized for demonstrating and supporting the charter. Congratulations!
October 15 - 18
On, Friday, October 18, students had the opportunity to learn from a local vet, Dr. Somers. He came to New Humble, along with Tyler Wasieczko and Josh Huber, to demonstrate and discuss how to perform an ultrasound and pregnancy check a bred heifer. This was a great experience for our students to learn and see what goes into this process.
Data Collecting
Another day of collecting data. Turkeys were weighed and an attempt was made to weigh the pigs but a better system is needed. When he have more data collected we will look at the rate of weight gain, discuss reasons why this might be the case and what will be needed to continue increasing to the desired weight.
October 7 - 10
Grades 7 - 9 students are busy working on their Charter Projects. Many are in the data collection step and are conducting experiments or have sent out surveys and are eagerly awaiting responses. The next step will be to compile and analyze the data and determine how they would like to represent it.
October 1 - 4
Seed Day - The grade 6 - 9 classes got together during the afternoon of October 4th to learn about investing money into crops and the financial decisions that must be made every step of the way. Students learned this by playing the Bean Game.
Art - students chose a New Humble scene that they wanted to represent in a pencil drawing. The assignment involved a discussion on the use of pencil shading to represent the different shades of colour in their scene.
September 23 - 27
September 23 - 27
Barnyard Math
Students had some hands on experience figuring out perimeter and area by measuring the animal pens. One group also figured out how big to make the hog pen and how many panels would be needed for it.
Grade Two Buddy Time
Junior high students met with Miss Haggerty's grade two class
to talk about hogs. Students drew pictures of hogs, wrote sentences
about what they already know about them and what they want to
know about them. The students also talked about the parts of a pig's body.
NHCS will be getting some hogs next week so this was a good activity to do
as an introduction to hogs before they arrive.
September 16 - 19
September 16 - 19
Junior High students had the amazing opportunity to go to Olds College this week. They toured a SMART Farm, saw an autonomous tractor and learned how to conduct a research project. Collaboration with Olds College will continue throughout the year.
In order to provide students with opportunities to serve the school and develop leadership skills, time is spent in the barnyard assisting when and where needed.
September 9 - 13
The Junior High Foods class was busy making egg bites as they learned about healthy breakfast options.
Grade 9 students are learning about biological diversity. They went outside to study the biological diversity around New Humble and to identify organisms, species, populations, communities and ecosystems.
August 28 - September 6
The Junior High students created a Scavenger Hunt for the whole school in order to help everyone get to know the staff, the school, the schoolyard and the barnyard. Students were divided into groups and grade 7, 8 and 9 students acted as leaders for the activity.
Getting to know the animals at New Humble, data collection and helping Mrs. Besler.
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