Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Nature's Classroom Day 2

Free time at Camp Cody.  6th grade students are having a great time!!  Weather is wonderful.






IALAC positive message board



Team Building

Did you know that the largest species of earth worm in our geographic area is the night crawler!


Tree identification and classification


Making bottle rockets



Learning about the rainbow and spectrum of colors



Learning about turtles


Fruit dissection



Monday, November 19, 2012

Sixth Grade Environmental Camp

Howe Manning Sixth Graders are thoroughly enjoying their first day at environmental camp at Camp Cody in Ossipee, New Hampshire.  Monday afternoon classes included a snake dissection, jelly belly classification, making bouncy balls, making silly putty from borax and glue, building mini structures and more.  Next is dinner and then the evening activity is the infamous science fair tonight. 










Friday, November 9, 2012

Veteran’s Day Ceremony

Howe Manning students and staff honored our Veterans in a ceremony held Friday afternoon, on November 9th.

Sixth grade teacher, Nancy Jones, has organized the Howe Manning Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day ceremonies for many years.  She also organizes the donation of items to be sent to soldiers serving in the military overseas.  Students donated over 20 boxes filled with cards, toiletries and candy to send to our service men and women.

Nancy Jones was presented with two awards:  Dept of Massachusetts, John J. Mulhern Educator of the Year by the American Legion and also a State Senate citation in recognition of her work with the American Legion.

Members of Operation Troop support came to the ceremony to accept the donations.