Kendle McGovern, Tirzah Schippers, Kara Wicks, and Charles Kelly traveled to Moses Lake to represent KFMS at the statewide Math is Cool Masters competition March 29th. Along the way they stopped at EWU for a campus tour. Our team claimed 2nd place in the pi division. Over 50 teams who qualified at their regional level competitions across the state where competing at this competition. Great work Kettle Falls mathletes!
The 7th grade art students at KFMS recently completed a unit on drawing and shading wolves. They used simple grids, colored pencils, and a visual reference. They first learned about shading and drawing by practicing light to dark shading on value scales and creating textured lines on a round surface. Students worked on a step by step process that took several days and paid special attention to the shape and details of the eyes, mouth, nostrils, and fur pattern over the gray areas. These wolves were on display in our hallways for conferences.
The Kettle Falls Elementary and Middle school students and staff participated in an all school challenge to be more understanding and including for Autism Awareness month in April. An assembly was given to each school to present information on autism and to begin the challenge. Each puzzle piece on the trees represents a student or staff who signed their name, saying they pledge to see past the label.
This year because of the wonderful suggestion made by one of our 8th grade students and the kindness of Mrs. Purvis for hosting in her room, we started a card club at the middle school. They met once a week after school playing card games, learning new card games, teaching each other new games, laughing, and making new friends. Over the course of the year we had a special guest come in to share some magic tricks with us. We would like to thank Magician John Hill for giving his time to share some amazing card tricks with us. I am still trying to figure out how he made that card vanish. Thank you to Mrs. Purvis, Jada, and John Hill for a great first year of card club!
On Monday March 27th our 8th grade student were able to take a trip to 49 Degrees North ski hill! This is an annual trip that all 8th graders get to take. Some students were experts on the ski hills, while others this was the first time they have ever been on skis. The 8th grade class would like to thank the teachers who came up to the ski hill, the substitute teachers that helped cover classes while the teachers were gone, our bus driver for getting us there, and the ASB for the generous donation to help make this trip possible. The 8th graders had a great time and came back to school the next day sore from all the fun they had skiing.
Students at KFMS attended their first annual pi night on 3.14. Mrs. Purvis provided different activities for students and families to earn tokens for participating in “pi challenges.” Pi, in mathematics, is the ratio of the circumference to its diameter. In its decimal form, the value of pi is approximately 3.14; but the full decimal representation for Pi never ends. Kara was awarded an blueberry pie for being able to recite the first 103 digits of pi from memory. Other students took home pies from a raffle drawing. The night ended with families enjoying pizza. Make sure to join us next year for our next pi celebration!
Friday, March 17th was St. Patrick’s Day. The middle school was lucky enough to have some special leprechauns visit each and every class today sharing some special treats with the teachers in our building. We are very lucky to have these special people in our building! Thank you for sharing your magically delicious snacks with us!
