AROUND THE AREA
Project promotes working together Ellen Price’s Jim Pearson Elementary School first grade learning part about it.” students took members of the public on a trip through the Lankford said students may not get all the facts correct in solar system. first grade, but they are learning skills that will be around for Students created a rocketship view of the solar system a lifetime. that included the sun, eight planets and stars from far away “They are learning about working together,” Lankford galaxies. said. “Nowhere do “It took them into you go now that you teams,” Price said. “It are not working with was groups of two someone.” students per planet. Lankford said the They researched their student experiences plant and had to in projects created by come up with six facts teachers such as Price about their planet teach the value of they thought were team building. important.” “Anytime a kid Alexander City struggles, another Mayor Woody Baird, steps in to help,” superintendent Dr. Lankford said. “It Keith Lankford, translates to when members of the they get to be adults Alexander City and helping others. I Board of Education, love it.” Alexander City city Price said projects councilmembers and Out of This World Flavor like this help students parents crowded into Students in Ellen Price's first grade class sample dehydrated foods get out of their Price’s room to visit that could be available to astronauts in space as part of their unique comfort zone, help with the students them learn new words study of the solar system. and try some of the and help them work dehydrated fruit that together. would be similar to what’s on a spaceship. “They learn to work together,” Price said. “It doesn’t matter Price even created astronaut pudding for her students, what race, or nationality, or disability, they learn to help each letting them mix it in ziplock bags. other reach a goal.” “This is what they remember,” Lankford said. “This is the ~ Cliff Williams
Beta Club adopts campus cleanup plan
Music Minister Returns to Dadeville
Charles Kuykendall, former music minister at First Baptist Church in Dadeville, will return to the church next month.
Dadeville High School Beta Club students recently adopted a stretch of East South Street, including the campus's front entrance, as part of the state's Adopt-A-Mile program and resolved to keep it clean. Five students and a teacher got to work early one morning last month with hi-vis jackets and trash pickers lent by the Dadeville Beautification Board. Beta Club, an academic honors program, "is about community service," club sponsor and science teacher Renatta Rives said. Students must log a certain number of service hours to be recognized as members at graduation, which they do with projects like this litter pick-up. It also has Academic Club Honors Environment intrinsic rewards, Along with four other Beta Club according to its members and a teacher, Dadeville's members. Adam Ray is part of a crew that ~ Siri Hedreen adopted East South Street. Lake Martin Living 9
