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EXHIBITION DAY: Transitions Entrepreneurs!
For the last couple of months, our Transitions crew has been working on starting up their own businesses – learning all about the steps to entrepreneurship and how it might be an option for them in the future. The project aimed to empower students to explore entrepreneurship by guiding them through the process of conceptualizing,…
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EXHIBITION DAY: Dynamic’s Twisted Skits!
Our Project Exhibition for the Theater Production Project was showcased last Friday night as we presented “Dynamic’s Twisted Skits!” for our families and friends here at the BACC auditorium. The production was a series of 4 creative skits – one by each classroom – that were tweaked, staged, and performed by the students themselves. All…
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EXHIBITION DAY: Dynamic Sports!
Last Friday, we closed out our Dynamic Sports! project with a massive Superbowl Party! Students set up the gym, putting out exhibits of all our work over the 5-week project, setting up games, and preparing the buffet table for none other than – yes, our favorite – PIZZA!!! Families also brought Super Bowl-sized snacks to…
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TRANSITIONS UPDATE…
The focus this month in Transitions was cooking! Our young adults walked through menu-planning, locating and reading recipes, creating shopping lists, shopping, food preparation rules and techniques, and the actual art of cooking and cleaning up! They spent a lot of time in the kitchen, concocting dishes such as fried rice, sausage dogs with peppers…
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SPECIAL VISITOR: Muddy the Mudcat!
On Friday, January 12th we closed out our hockey unit and kicked off our … yes, Coach … BASEBALL unit! (Baseball is Coach’s favorite sport – as you can see, he’s an Atlanta Braves fan!). Muddy the Mudcat, the Mascot from the Carolina Mudcats, was there to help us out. He brought signed autograph cards…
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LAUNCH DAY: Dynamic Sports!
Wednesday January 3rd brought the launch of our new project: Dynamic Sports! Not just a fun unit, but an educational one too – we’ll be learning about the History, People, Traditions, Science, and Training involved with Bowling, Hockey, Baseball, and Football, culminating in an exihibition-day SuperBowl Party for all our family and friends! All the…
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EXHIBITION DAYS: Holidays for Heroes!
Our Holidays for Heroes Project was a blast!!! It was a carefully-coordinated effort to celebrate some of the kid-selected hometown heroes of our community: Police, Firefighters, Senior Citizens, and the folks at Arts Together. Students were placed into four groups, decided on a way to honor their heroes, and began preparations for the celebration beyond…
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EXHIBITION DAY: Blue Jay Point!
As educators, we are asked to measure students’ successes and failures as a way to assess accomplishments. The successes at Blue Jay Point really measured up! Students began the first day by playing Backbone Boogie. They had to identify reptiles, birds, mammals and fish. Everyone was able to play, and that is a huge win! We…
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EXHIBITION DAY: Trash-to-Treasure!
Friday’s Exhibition Day was amazing, as we got to show our parents the Treasures we have created this month from – yes – our Trash! We’ve really learned a lot in a very hands-on way about how important the Reduce/Reuse/Recycle philosophy is to improving our communities! We hope you were inspired by some of our…
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WELCOME BACK, DYNAMIC!!!
Dynamic students dove head-first into the Project-Based Learning model this week with our “All About Us” project, using this one-week mini-project as an opportunity to not only get to know one another, but to also learn the ins-and-outs of the “Dynamic Way” of doing things (PBL). Next week we’re starting our first major project – “Trash…
