http://self.palmettoprep.net Young Leaders Engaged in Learning Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:31:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone once said that a picture was worth a thousand words. That person didn't know me. When I look at this picture, millions of memories, small moments in time, pass through my mind. And I look upon the faces of the students with pride, joy, and excitement. While our school will ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/914 Friday was a very special day for us. We were able to shower our mothers with love and presents! Muffins for Mom was a wonderful way to celebrate Mother's Day.               http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/900 Students in fourth and fifth grades participated in a science fair yesterday. They were able to design their own topics and research experiments. We were all very impressed with the caliber of work they completed! I think we have some future scientists on our hands! Kendall's project involved seeing whether ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/884 Two of Mrs. Self's fourth graders were recently selected for the A.R.M.E.S program at the Fine Arts Center. A.R.M.E.S stands for Arts Reaching Middle and Elementary Schools. Mrs. Self nominated Cassidy for the dance program and Eli for the music program.  Cassidy arrived at school with a huge smile on ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/880 Last Thursday, students from Palmetto Prep participated in a performance entitled "Destination America." They showed off their dancing and singing skills as they impressed friends and family.         http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/873 Today, Darby showed us his new fiddle.  It was very cool. Thanks for sharing, Darbs! We can't wait for you to learn how to play.           http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/861 This past weekend, Kendall visited Mrs. Self's hometown.  Mrs. Self grew up in Jacksonville, and loves everything about the city. Anyway, Kendall visited Mrs. Self's middle and high school, went to her favorite stores, and even bought her chocolate covered popcorn from Peterbrooke (Mrs. Self's favorite chocolate bakery)! What a ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/853 Last week to supplement and extend our lesson on percents, students looked through non-fiction texts.  During this process, they picked a particular page that had both texts and pictures / photographs. They were charged with calculating what percentage of the page was taken up by photos, and to analyze whether ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/849 Yesterday, Mrs. Amy and Mr. Clint were pleased to announce that Palmetto Prep would be adding a new Chinese foreign language program to our curriculum.  Students and families will have the option of enrolling in either Spanish or Chinese for the school year! Mrs. Self has been working with the ... http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/833 I wanted to showcase one of our student's graphing projects.  Each student was responsible for creating his/her own graphing question (three different questions, to be exact), identifying a survey population, comparing sub-groups within their survey-population, and creating three different graphs to represent their findings.       http://self.palmettoprep.net/archives/823