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3rd grade tours the Little White House
By Matt Wilson
The Flint River Academy third grade classes went to the Little White House as their final school field trip of the year and it paralleled their unit studying the U.S. presidents.
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CHAMPS
Choosing Healthy Activities and Methods Promoting Safety
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Little Cats Cheerleading Camp puts the fun in a fundraiser. Held by the FRA Varsity Cheerleaders to earn money for uniforms and camp, the end of the year camp is eagerly looked forward to by young girls aged three through 4th grade.
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The Wildcats Lucky Charm-Bat Boy Trey Davis not only is a favorite with his 2nd grade classmates but is a favorite with the high school athletes as well. Trey is a young Wildcat Bat Boy but because he plays the sport himself, he follows and understands the game well. He is the first to meet an incoming runner with a high five congratulations, and hangs his head low when the coach chews on the players in the huddle. |
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Tour de Cure Bicycle Ride
Team Meriwether is a bicycle team formed to raise money for the American Diabetes Association.
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Karlee Geter, first grader, along with Sweetie Pie, competes in hog shows. Sweetie Pie is a three month old Yorkshire pig which weighs in at 86 pounds. Karlee and Sweetie Pie competed in the Winter Pig Classic January 9 and 10 in the All Star Showmanship Competition and Showmanship Challenge classes at the Georgia Agri-Center in Perry, Georgia. Julie Lawrence, our 4-H Extension Agent, taught Karlee how to show, working with her everyday and during the Christmas holidays as much as three times a day. Sweetie Pie was bought to eat, but the family says they will keep her now. She is a good lean pig, great for shows, and motherhood! |
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Fashion Show
In honor of Dr. Seuss and Read across America Week the Media Center at Flint River Academy held a special day for the younger classes that do not always get to hear a speaker.
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Rocks in their heads!
Mrs. Lee’s fourth grade science classes brought their rock collections or finds to class to share. Lauren Sibley brought rock salt; Gracie Harris brought her brother’s rock he bought in Tennessee: a beautiful purple quartz; Alec Gooch had a family rock collection featuring agate, quartz, and many others; Luke Hardaway had a mounted card filled with amber, quartz, and more. |
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P is for Parachute
5K learns the letter P in the most fun of ways. Jiggling the parachute, dashing under it, and imagining bouncing on it all reinforce the “popcorn, popcorn: puh, puh, puh.”
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Chinese New Year
Mrs. Lee’s 4th grade class celebrates Chinese New Year every year with panache.
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Faith and begorra: we almost trapped a leprechaun! The kindergarten classes at FRA set an elaborate trap counting on the leprechaun’s greed for gold. A small set of steps made from Lincoln Logs led up to the package wrapped in gold foil. But, alas, all the mischievous mannie left behind was his small bowler and a terrible mess trashing the classrooms with green paper! Standing before the trap and looking for clues are Victoria Roberson, Hunter Evans, Mrs. Tina Turner, Mason McCartney, Caleb Byers, Emily Rogers, Paige Neal, and Caroline Brown. |
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4th Grade Field Trip
By Ben Gilson and Dallas Gibson
On Thursday January 29, 2009, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Adam’s fourth grade classes visited the Shenandoah Georgia Youth Science and Technology Center on an exciting field trip learning many things about science and its history.
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Not the Heart Expected on Valentine’s Day
Mrs. Della Jo Turner’s third grade class got a virtual demonstration of how blood flows through the heart by Mrs. Miller’s junior Advanced Biology class.
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First Science Fun
Good books, imaginative playtime, and science: are there any things that can inspire the imagination more?
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Cinderella and her prince go to the ball
Flint River Academy's annual second grade Valentine Ball was held on Thursday, February 12th at Woodbury Baptist Church.
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Who doesn’t love a Tea Party?
The 3K class came to the Media Center and used their best manners to have tea with Miss Sally.
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Gabby, the Georgia Dental Association's ambassador of good dental hygiene, was a big hit with students at FRA. Dr. Feckoury and Gabby visited several elementary classrooms and gave students toothbrushes and students like Bartley Truskolaski.
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Trees are Terrific in Cities and Towns
This year's Arbor Day Poster Contest was sponsored by Toyota and its theme took an urban turn to help students understand the important role trees play in cities and towns.
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The Countdown Begins: 100th Day of School
Flint River Academy students celebrated the one hundredth day of school this past week. Actually it takes the entire week to do all games and learning activities that go with the holiday.
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4H Club
Meriwether and Troup County Extension Agent Julie Lawrence and FRA fifth grader Hunter Tucker demonstrate the possible propagation outcomes in plant genetics at the January 4-H Club meeting in Woodbury. The 4-H Club meetings are enthusiastically attended and the students are looking forward to the upcoming February Milkmake Contest in which students submit their favorite milkshake recipe. |
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Extension Agent Julie Lawrence has FRA students fired up about the classes in forensic science, the Arbor Day Poster Contest, Ag Day Art and Essay Contest, and the Horse Club. Shown with Lawrence are Shayna Paul, Hunter Tucker, and Tiffany Roberson. |
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Father Christmas, La Befana, Pére Noël, Sankt Nikolaus, and Father Frost or the Origins of Santa Claus
Children at Flint River Academy were wowed with the assortment of Santa Clauses that Toots Hobson brought for display.
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Teddy Bear Day
By Jennifer Boatwright
The second grade held its annual "Teddy Bear Day" not long ago. On this day, the students bring their favorite teddy bear to school. Each student had one teddy bear which was "enrolled" for the day at FRA. Students were instructed to fill out a form about their teddy bear including name, when they got it and how they took care of it. Then, they wrote a story about their bears and took pictures with their bears. They also had to make their bears "behave" throughout that school day.
Believe it or not, teddy bears did not always have "teddy" in their name. The second graders learned that the name for teddy bears is actually historic and came from Teddy Roosevelt himself. |
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Franklin, Edison, and Ampiere gonna be's
Tyler Harris along with his fifth grade classmates traveled to Shenandoah where they studied electricity, currents, magnets, and more. They wrapped a wire around a screw and made a magnet. They took a D battery, wires, and Christmas string of lights, and paper clip and made an electrical circuit. Using the paper clip to turn the light on and off was fun for the budding MacGyvers. |
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War Based on Books
For hitting the books hard they got to play hard. When you're in fifth grade there is nothing as much fun as War Ball. Pays to read! |
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Making Spirits Bright . . .
Ms. Foreman and Mrs. Hainline held their yearly Muffins and Cocoa for their colleagues. Enjoyed by all, it was a great break and the fresh muffins were delicious. |
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4K learns the letter "M"
Mrs. Cindy Smith had ready access to this learning resource when her class was ready to learn the letter M. Really, is there anything cooler than a Harley? Miss Cindy's husband readily agreed to bring the Harley to school as he enjoys a reason to bike. Each student sat on the monster machine, admired its shiny chrome, envied Mr. Smith's leather outfit, and pretty much put a Harley on his or her wish list for Christmas. |
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FRA at 4-H DPA
Josie Hinson and Shayna Paul pose with Miss Julie our Extension Agent as she rehearses with them before the 4-H District Project Achievement competition. The Rock Eagle experience is one that those of us who have been there, done that, will never forget, and we appreciate what it did for us. We know Josie and Shay represented us well, had a good time, and made memories too. |
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I am thankful for . . .
Not really being a Pilgrim and
having to wear this outfit everyday |
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I am thankful for . . .
Getting to be a
Wild Indian today! |
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Making history come to life
Todd Child, 8th grade reading teacher at Pike County Middle School took a day off from his fall break holiday to come to FRA to display a hobby that has grown into a passion of his: war memorabilia.
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En Guarde
When the Reading Rewards were being chosen at Flint River Academy...
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UGA-FLA game has a regular attendee
By Hynes Hamlett
Zollie Moreland, an eight year old third grader at Flint River Academy, has an enviable record if your blood runs red and black: she has pretty much attended every UGA football game since birth.
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Bon Jour
Any class is better when you eat good food, and the sweeter, the better!
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 Hurricane Season and the Saga of the Monarchs
On Labor Day weekend Mrs. Riggins visited her sister at Tybee. She brought back Monarch butterfly larvae that were on a milkweed bush at her sister's home and gave it to the kindergarten classes to watch develop. But the larvae rapidly devoured the entire milkweed that Mrs. Riggins brought back with her. Miss Tina and Miss Sally researched what Monarchs eat and, yuck, they only eat milkweed, and if they don't get milkweed, they will die! Luckily for the butterflies, another hurricane breezed into Savannah so Mrs. Riggins' sister evacuated and brought more milkweed with her when she came to Woodbury. Happy ending: the butterflies continued to eat and hatched. |
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Imaginations at Work
Row, row, row your boat. Shark attack. Surfin USA. Yo ho ho and a bottle of root beer. Old man and the sea. Sit down you're rockin' the boat. Bill Dance and Roland Martin. |
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 4-H
FRA fifth graders are having a great time with 4-H Club this year. The club meetings are led by Miss Julie whose leadership is making a positive impact. Students are excited about District Project Achievement (DPA) and they are doing research as they get ready to present and do demonstrations on a variety of topics. Shayna Paul has chosen horse shoeing as her project since she loves horses and riding. But she is checking out library books, interviewing people, and combing the internet for material. Know what the four h's stand for? Head, heart, hands, health. |
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Johnny Appleseed's Birthday
The first day of autumn at Flint River Academy means a celebration of Johnny Appleseed's birthday by the second grade. Dressed in period costume and the traditional cooking pot or coonskin cap for a hat, the students delivered apples throughout the school.
Kindergarten students at FRA invited their grandparents in for a special day of making memories. Together they created fall trees garbed in golds, oranges, reds and yellows. Mrs. Becky Prior helps her grandson Mason McCartney glue fall leaves on his tree and Mr. Pat O'Rouke helps his granddaughter Sydney King |
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Getting the real text message
The Whisper Phone
By using a cheap piece of plumbing PVC, Mrs. Lee's fourth grade students at Flint River Academy have a personalized learning tool. The "Whisper Phone" is an acoustical voice-feedback gadget that enables students to hear the sounds that make up words (phonemes) more clearly as they learn to read, spell, and process language. It is an added advantage that it is fun to use too. Students can hear phonemes ten times more clearly with the curve of PVC plumbing which means that they can hear themselves better and can focus better on what they're learning. Gracie Harris, Brett Williamson, and Taylor Brown are engrossed in their reading and "texting. |
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