The Undefeated Supernova Team

The Supernova Team remains undefeated in the Cup of Knowledge competition. The Supernova students selected three students out of the whole team to represent them in this academic competition. The Supernova teachers would like to congratulate to Hunter, Jake, and Rachel for winning the cup for the Supernova Team!

Outstanding Supernova Students!

At the 8th grade awards ceremony, many Supernova students came away with top honors. Kaley Wybranowski won the American Legion Award. Kayleigh Brink received the C.H.A.M.P.S. Award. Both Rachel McMurdy and Rachel Rozak won the band director's award and a service award for their dedication to the band. Finally, our 2010 Carson Scholar, Cassie Popovski, won the Spanish award for being the top student in Spanish for the school year. Congratulations to all of the Supernova students who received awards at yesterday's ceremony!

Pictured above is Kaley Wybranowski accepting her American Legion Award.

Advanced English Art Work

The Advanced English students created art work to represent poems that they had written in class. The poems were inspired by a field trip taken in May to the Carnegie Museum of Art for the poetry inspires art tour. To create their works of art, the students used acrylic paint on canvas. The students' art work and poems will be on display in Mrs. Porter's room next year. To read more about the students' experience at the Carnegie Museum of Art, scroll down to the previous blog post.

The students pictured above are Hunter, Jake, Lexie, Rachel, and Emily

Supernova Students of the Year

The Supernova team teachers would like to congratulate the three students who were selected as "Students of the Year". These students performed at an advanced level throughout all four nine week periods. Jake was selected for social studies, Hunter was selected for science, and Rachel was chosen for English. Each of the students received a medal and an award certificate.

The Anne Frank Leaf Project

The Advanced English 8 students read the play, "The Diary of Anne Frank" and the novel, The Diary of a Young Girl. As a culminating activity, the students selected from six quotes from Anne's diary. The quotes were based on the themes of freedom, goodness, giving, courage, happiness, and humanity. Each student wrote an essay about the ways that he or she had been inspired by the life of Anne Frank to value that specific theme in his or her own life. The students also created a leaf based on one of the six themes. Each student wrote Anne's quote on one side of the leaf and his or her own original quote on the other side of the leaf. This project was based on the Anne Frank Tree Interactive Monument. Anne Frank often admired the chestnut tree in the courtyard behind the secret annex and wrote about the tree in her diary.

For more information, you can visit the Anne Frank Tree Interactive Monument. You can also leave your own quote or message on the virtual tree.

The students pictured above are Evan, Cassie, and Paige.

Supernovas of the Month for May

The Supernova Team teachers would like to congratulate the following students who have been selected as "Students of the Month" for May. Rachel McMurdy was selected for English, Brady Moyer was chosen for social studies, and Gabrielle Trest was selected for science.