Ocean City Elementary fourth grade students Hunter Rodriguez, Sofia Valle Diaz, Yaretzi Castro-Gutierrez, Mason Kramer and Logan Quick recently helped kick off the fourth grade March Madness Book Project. Fourth grade students will be responsible for reading 16 books in the coming months and will vote for their favorites in March.
Teacher Jenn Corron’s Senior College Prep Physics class at Worcester Prep met in the lab to build roller coasters. The project kicked off their study of kinetic and potential energy after their recent trip to Busch Gardens, Williamsburg. Minimum requirements included an 8 second “ride”, a working loop and limited materials. Pictured with their coasters… Read more »
Worcester Preparatory School’s 10th Grade held the annual Fall Fun Festival for lower school students to enjoy as well as raise money for the class. Sophomores created their own game stations for the lower school grades to play, including the equipment, rules of play and the number of tickets per game. They also brought in… Read more »
Students in Andrese Foreman’s third grade class at Ocean City Elementary completed a unit on fossils during Reading class. Learning about fossils and how they form, sparked students’ interest to learn more about dinosaurs. As a result, they each chose a dinosaur and became an expert on it for a project. Submitted Photos
The Charles R. Jenkins Chapter of the National Honor Society at Worcester Preparatory School inducted 36 new members last week. Pictured, front from left, are Cole Myers, Cayden Wallace, Brody Bushnell, Amna Iqbal, Kathy Zhang, Olivia Mattingly, Sara Miller, Pearson Schul and Jason Todorov; second row, Rory Pugh, Logan Ginnavan, Lorelei Campbell, Jenna Hess, Sophia… Read more »
Ocean City Elementary School students in Melanie Coleman’s first grade class enjoyed a special presentation from Lt. Colonel Oles, who is in charge of the VMM-163 Evil Eyes Squadron at Miramar Marine Corp Base in San Diego. The students celebrated the Marine Corps’ 246th birthday along with learning the importance of soldiers and thanking a veteran. Students… Read more »
Sixth grade students, like Daniel Kishtykova and Gary McCabe, at Berlin Intermediate School have been exploring and discovering Ancient Egypt in their Social Studies classes. After learning many products in that region were made from vegetation, the students tried to their hand at weaving.
Worcester Preparatory School’s fifth grade had a field trip to the Worcester County Veterans Memorial in Ocean Pines. Since then, students have taken what they learned from the trip to help celebrate Veterans Day. In doing so, students crafted and personalized cards to veterans, thanking them for their service. Pictured, seated from left, are Caroline… Read more »
Students in Jennifer Fohner’s morning Pre-K 4 class at Ocean City Elementary recently took a field trip to Adkins Farm to end their unit on The Five Senses. Pictured are Isla Hourihan and Owen Berke.
Students from Kara Wolf’s third grade science class at Ocean City Elementary have been learning about paleontology and the importance of identifying fossils to learn about Earth long ago. Above, Anthony Ellison, left, and Keaton Van Amburg are uncovering a picture of a cast/mold fossil of a prehistoric leaf.