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Rainbow Tubes
Kindergarten through 3rd grade learned about density by creating rainbow tubes. Using various amounts of sugar in colored water, students were successfully able to layer the colored water on top of each other. It took several of the students a few times, but eventually, all of them were able to create the beautiful rainbow tube.
Savannah
Morgan
Kalyn
Greyson
Gianna
Cora
Andrea
Ride on the Fire Truck? YES, please!
Ride on the Fire Truck? YES, please!
Skykomish Volunteer Firefighters Association rewarded six students with an opportunity to take a ride in the fire trucks after each student submitted a fire safety escape plan for their own homes. Students were picked up outside the school and rode all the way to their regular bus stops. Thank you to James Knisley, Rob Campbell, and Donovan Davis for teaching the importance of fire safety and giving these students a ride they won’t forget!
Fine-Motor Fall Project
Skykomish ECEAP & Pre-K program teamed up with Ms. Diaz and her K/1 class to create a beautiful Autumn/Fall tree door decoration. This was a very nice fine-motor activity to strengthen students' fingers and hands and practice our cutting skills as well! Not only was it fun to rip the tissue paper into pieces, we also enjoyed watching the “leaves” fall from the tree as we hung it on the door. K/1 was also able to teach Pre-K how trees store their energy for the winter by bringing all the nutrients from the leaves of the tree into the trunk, which is why the leaves FALL! Thank you to Ms. Diaz for including us in your lessons! The tree is beautiful!
ripping
ripping
gluing
gluing
cutting
cutting
coloring
coloring
Great work Pre-k - K/1 !
"Ancient Egypt" in Middle School
"Ancient Egypt" in Middle School
The past few weeks, the middle school class learned about Ancient Egypt. For their final project, each student was asked to create a museum exhibit that related to an aspect of Ancient Egypt of their choosing. Many chose to look at pharaohs such as King Tut and Hatshepsut. Others researched mummification and pyramids. One student even researched the food of Ancient Egypt and made the class Pharaoh’s Bread – a type of flat bread often made during the time! The middle school room now has multiple mummies in their sarcophaguses and a digital pyramid complete with the rooms and passageways. The students had a blast putting it all together. Now on to Greece! "
"What happened if your chalk drawings came to life?"
Middle-schooler Marco Laverde ran with this writing prompt!
The Zero Hour
It was the day before Halloween, and kids were drawing monsters on the sidewalks. There were pictures of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, pictures of ghosts and goblins, and there were also a few skeletons. It was all cute, fun and games, but at zero hour, when all the digital clocks in town read 00:00, the true start of October 31st, Halloween, the sidewalk chalk creatures came to life.
The creatures hid in backyards and in the woods, while some of them stood perfectly still outside houses like decorations, but they did not come out of hiding until regular human people started coming out of their houses and talking to neighbors and going to work or school. Some people noticed and made comments to their friends like, “Isn’t it a little bit early for costumes?” Some people tried talking directly to them, yet the creatures did not respond, did not even notice the people--they ignored everybody. The real trouble began when people started going out for tricks and treats, when it started to get dark. The monsters snatched the kids who drew them, dragged them to places that were important to them, or that they went to often. Then the monsters pushed the children to the ground, they howled like they were getting eaten alive, then, all at once, in a blue-white flash the children disappeared.
When the light faded, all that was left of the children was a chalk drawing of them. Seconds later the monsters dissolved into the sidewalk as chalk drawings nearby the child. The next day, parents realized that their children were missing, and they put together search parties. It was only when they had just started looking that they found one of the missing children. They were in shock, because they didn’t understand. Then, one parent noticed a drawing of a monster nearby. Then another parent saw it and remembered, that their child had drawn it the day before Halloween. However, on Halloween, they noticed the drawing was gone completely, but it hadn’t rained, and then they saw a “person” who had their costume on all day, and it looked exactly like the drawing. The parents put the puzzle together to figure out what had happened.
The Skykomish Daily News
CHILDREN MISSING!
The day after Halloween parents in Skykomish realized that their children were missing from their houses, volunteer search parties were organized and over the course of the next hour only six of the twenty-nine missing children were found. The six children were all from Mrs. Robinson’s seventh-eighth grade class at the Skykomish School. Willow Lee, the first child found was spotted outside of her mother’s coffee shop. Marco Laverde was found minutes later outside of the library. Madeline Luker was then found outside of the Skykomish School. They all had monsters nearby. Austin Grider, Julia Coffroth and Charlie Buse Short are the other children that have been found. The only member of the seventh-eighth grade class who is not missing is Mason Taylor. The remaining twenty-three children have not been located. If you have seen any of the twenty-three remaining missing children, please let us know and give the location.
For an interview with Mrs. Robinson, go to page 6
This newspaper clipping is from the year 2021, and fifty-seven years later, the locations of the remaining twenty-three missing children are still a mystery. And some of the questions people ask are: How did the chalk creatures come to life? Why did they come to life? And why did they take the children with them, back into the sidewalk?
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