CD Fulkes Middle School Stay gold, Ponyboy! 7th grade students participated in a library Gallery Walk about The Outsiders, their next novel study. Utilizing iPads, they worked through stations about life in the 1960s and the author of the Outsiders, S.E. Hinton, They also got to...
read moreRockin’ the Reading Rumble
On February 7 teams from every RRISD middle school came together to compete in the annual Reading Rumble. Team members read a list of 10 books to prepare and have been practicing for months. While our CD Fulkes team did not win, we advanced...
read moreBook tastings in “Cafe Ludden”
Sixth graders visited the library for nonfiction book tastings in “Cafe Ludden”. They previewed a book for each course along with a small sweet or salty treat and then rated each book. The books they checked out will be used for skills...
read more7th Science Classes make Lizard Families
7th grade Science classes have been studying genetics and one of their final projects was to create a lizard family. Students determined their lizard's genotypes/phenotypes and then created their own lizard. Next, they collaborated with a partner to determine all...
read moreHour of Code
Students participated in Hour of Code with help from our librarian, Barbara Ludden, and ITS, Kimberly Wassmuth, and many volunteers from HP - Hewlett Packard. Hour of Code is an international effort to expose K-12 students to coding, in order to nurture logic,...
read moreStopMotion Videos in 6th grade Science
6th grade science students demonstrated their understanding of potential and kinetic energy by creating stop motion videos with the library iPads. Their creations included an original backdrop and moving object. They modeled the changes in potential and...
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