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Visiting children’s writer answers students’ queries
Clare Dunkle, author of children
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National History Day brings the past to life
More than 120 students from the Kaiserslautern school district, including KMC, Geilenkirchen, Spangdahlem, Bitburg and Baumholder schools, gathered Feb. 24 at Vogelweh Elementary School to bring the past to life as part of the National History Day competition.
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TerraNova tests no cause for stress
Students in the KMC from third to 11th grade are preparing for a week of standardized testing, March 14 to 18. The TerraNova tests measure achievement levels in the subject areas of reading, language arts, math, science and social studies.
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Hands on art
***image1***Ramstein American Middle School family and consumer science teacher Jane Yocum assists sixth-graders Bria Moore (left) and Brianna Cooper in trying on traditional African dress items from the collection of Betty Slusny, RAMS intercultural education teacher. Both students are wearing jewelry of the Kenyan Maasai tribe. Bria is also wearing […]
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Brushing up
***image1*** Airman 1st Class Tiffany Moore, 435th Dental Squadron, teaches Michael Woodruff and Gloria Yancy, Sembach Elementary School third-graders, the proper way to floss teeth, using Gloria’s fingers as teeth. The lesson was part of a Children’s Dental Health Month demonstration Feb. 25 at SES. Airman Moore and Staff Sgt. […]
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Around Campus
***image1*** Members of Kaiserslautern American High School student organizations clean up around the school Feb. 22 as part of the “Campus Pride” project. Ramstein American Elementary School kindergarteners Hunter LaPaglia and Ian Sexton sit with their “deployment buddy,” Ramstein American High School freshman Sierra Howard, during activities at RAES Feb. […]
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Cultural celebrations
***image1*** ***image2*** Andrew Majors (left), Ramstein Intermediate School third-grader, guides the Good Luck Dragon around the school during recent celebration of the Lunar New Year. Students from Sarah Wedlaw’s Vogelweh Elementary School third-grade class (right) dress and act as historical characters as part of Mrs. Wedlaw’s Black History studies Feb. […]
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Life savers
***image1***Sembach Middle School students, (from left) eighth-grader Joey Sanfillipo, eighth-grader Sean Gresham, seventh-grader Trent Hjuler and eighth-grader Ryan Turner, discuss the game chip that nearly choked Trent at school Feb. 11. Joey and Sean, first-aid certified through Boy Scouts, performed the stomach-thrusting Heimlich maneuver, unblocking Trent’s airway. Ryan rushed Trent […]
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Technology in the classroom Students link to Antarctica
For more than 50 Kaiserslautern American Middle School sixth-graders, the plight of hundreds of Antarctic Adelie penguins, now greatly distanced from their feeding waters by the break-away B-15A iceberg, became a matter of personal interest.
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21 Nov 2024
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