Aug 26th, 2010
LAKE WALES – When school started this week, one Janie Howard Wilson Elementary teacher could “bear-ly” contain the excitement in her classroom – but she didn’t mind.
To begin the school year, second grade teacher Demrah Frisk gave each student in her room a “reading bear buddy.” Students chose their bears when they visited Frisk during Orientation last week.
On the first day of school, their bear buddies were waiting with a special poem attached:
I’m your reading “Bear Buddy!”
Let me listen to you study.
Please read to me every night,
So you can do your schoolwork just right.
Remember I’m a gift from Mrs. Frisk,
This of you….she does insist!
Beginning Monday (Aug. 24), the bears traveled home with students at night for reading practice.
“They were so cute and excited about reading to their bears,” said Frisk.
PHOTO #1: Second grade teacher Demrah Frisk (back right) and her students show off their “reading bear buddies.”
PHOTO #2: Student Ayden Cosce poses with his bear buddy.
LAKE WALES – Janie Howard Wilson Elementary students cashed in their Star Bucks – earned in the school’s Positive Behavior Support program – to take part in a Crafty Celebration last week (Jan. 27) that one student described as the “best celebration ever!”
LAKE WALES – Six members of the 2011 Lake Wales Highlanders football team made college commitments today (Feb. 1) as part of National Signing Day.
LAKE WALES – Janie Howard Wilson Elementary fifth grade students were mesmerized by concert pianist Thomas Pandolfi (pictured, center), who performed today (Jan. 30) at the Lake Wales Arts Center.
