MIDDLE SCHOOL
Spring Snapshots from the House of Joy
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By Heather Bennett, Communications
semester progressed with joyous outside-the-box business as usual,
“Every class had some kind of mystery to solve. In Bible, we investigated the disappearance of Jonah, and in language arts, we investigated an act of vandalism. When we walked into science class, the song, “Who Let the Dogs Out,” was playing. Mrs. Glover said that we were going to learn about our new pet dog. We had been studying about DNA, and we were given an envelope with DNA strips. We had to combine and look at those strips to see what our new dog would be like. Then we drew our dogs.”
middle school education transformed in ways not anticipated. The
-Allison Lank, 6th grade
In Warriorville, the Middle School is lovingly referred to as the House of Joy and with good reason. Exuberance fills classrooms and hallways as students, faculty, and staff immerse themselves in high octane education. Throughout the year, students engage in “transformation days” where the whole building or a classroom undergoes a thematic metamorphosis to bolster skills in math, science, language arts, and more. As the spring
outcome, nonetheless, was a thing of beauty! Classroom Transformation days have included Mystery Day, S'more Math Review, Prepositional Sports Challenge, and "Sweet Shoppe" Fractions to name a few. Mystery day certainly cracked the code on the fun of learning. Students became detectives investigating clues and details in order to complete an assigned task.
“In every single class, we had to find clues of some kind. In math, we had to work many calculations to solve the case of the missing mayor. In history, we decoded names and did stations of states. In language arts, we decoded commas using M&Ms. My favorite part of the day was dressing up in a wig and detective goggles. Coach Risher also created a mystery for us to solve. I really liked being able to tell him that we figured it out.” -Skeet Boshears, 5th grade
6 THE WARRIOR • SPRING 2020
