Seventh grade students competed in designing the 2013-2014 student agenda cover design. The top five finalists were Britney Pizer, Alyssa Kruger, Kailey Woolard, Heaven Turner, and Pyper Barker. Our winner was Kailey Wollard. Congratulations to Kailey! A special thank you to Mrs. Sward for coming up with the idea for our seventh grade art students. Sixth grade students get ready for the 2014-15 designing contest of the agenda. Thank you to all the art students who entered the design contest. We look forward to next years contest.

In honor of National Poetry Month, the 8th grade students at RMS immersed themselves in poetry.  Over several weeks, they read and wrote many different types of poems, including limericks, pantoums, sonnets, odes, free verse, ekphrasis, elegies, couplets, etc. Poets such as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Stafford, Billy Collins, Taylor Mali, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and many more were in the spotlight daily as students learned about their lives and read their poetry. Not only did students learn about reading and writing poetry, they also learned about performing poetry.

What is global citizenship? It is acting as a citizen of the world: being a part of what goes on. Global citizenship is connecting multiple countries together through exchange, communication, ECT…. In Africa, unclean drinking water is a continuous problem. The hazardous water takes lives and decreases their population more and more everyday. This problem is spreading everywhere in Africa. There is one thing we are planning on doing to save many lives, and that is taking action. Although we may be just a small class in a big world: making a difference in the lives of those in Africa is far from impossible. We are planning on giving the simple necessity of water to those dying of thirst.

In Mrs. Kitzman’s social studies classes, we are acting as global citizens though the ‘Saving the World One Well at a Time’ Global Project 2013. Our first step is raising money to buy wells from Heifer International. The goal that we have set is to raise $2500. Then a generous, anonymous donor is planning on matching the amount we raise to go to our cause. In order to do this, we are willing to start raising money by selling baked goods, t-shirts, concessions, accessories and much more. T-shirt forms will be available next Friday the 26th at the concessions stand during the PBIS Celebration Day.

By participating in the Global Project, not only will we help those in need, we will also better ourselves with the knowledge of what’s happening globally.  How many students does it take to save lives in Africa? Just 28!