FMS 6th grade students participated in International Coastal Clean-Up 2018 on Friday, September 14th. Students helped beautify Miramar Beach by collecting and documenting the trash littering the coastline. Submitted by Sharie Smith
Please join us on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Carlene H. Anderson Training Center (555 Walton Rd., DeFuniak Springs, FL 32435) at 6:00 pm for our School Advisory Council, SAC District Training. All new SAC members are encouraged to attend.
The School Advisory Council (SAC) is a team of people representing various segments of the community–parents, teachers, students, administrators, support staff, business/ industry people and other interested community members. The purpose of a SAC is to assist in the preparation and evaluation of the results of the school improvement plan.
Each school in the State of Florida must have a SAC. By law, each SAC must be composed of the principal and an “appropriately balanced” number of “stakeholders.” These individuals must be representative of the ethnic, racial and economic makeup of the community served by the school. High schools and vocational technical centers must have students on the SACs. Middle and junior high schools may include students on their SAC. The majority of SAC members (over 50 percent) must not be employed by the SCHOOL DISTRICT on whose SAC they serve.
We look forward to seeing you on September 20th.
Students in Mrs. Debbie Bush and Mr. Andy Stafford's 5th grade classes at WDE are studying ordering and comparing decimal numbers to the thousandths. The students participated in a hands on decimal lesson with the Media Specialist, Mrs. Tammy Goodman. The lesson allowed students to see how decimals are utilized in libraries. Since non-fiction books are organized by decimal numbers, groups of students used the numbering system to order the numbers from least to greatest and subsequently place all of the library books in order. This was a great hands on activity for students to better understand decimals, how decimals can be used in the real world, and to become even more familiar with the school library! Submitted by Jessica Dawkins
Image 1: Sadek Ramirez Galvez
Image 2: Lucas Cotton, Lakayla Jeffereson
Congratulations to these WHS seniors, who were recently accepted into college! We're so proud of these students and know they will continue building their legacies this year at Walton High AND in the coming years as they embark on their college & career endeavors.
Abigail Hewett - University of Alabama
Josie Barton - Troy University
Kaylee McBroom - Troy University
Submitted by Christy English
Walton High School was happy to have Brian Bonner, a firefighter at Eglin Air Force Base, speak with our career research classes today. He explained the day-to-day operations of being a firefighter and answered all of the students' questions regarding his profession. A couple of students even got the opportunity to wear his gear!
Thank you, Mr. Bonner, for taking the time out of your schedule to speak with our students about this career opportunity.
Submitted by Christy English
As part of World’s Largest Single-Day Beach Cleanup students and volunteers from across Walton County School District will join hundreds of thousands worldwide during Ocean Convervancy’s 33rd International Coastal Cleanup. On September 15, the world’s largest annual single-day volunteer effort to remove trash from local waterways, beaches, lakes and rivers will take place. Since the first ICC 33 years ago, nearly 13 million volunteers have removed nearly 250 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterway worldwide! Come out and join our students and volunteers in their efforts, and “Suit Up to Clean Up!” You can find more information at:
https://oceanconservancy.org/.../international-coastal-clean.../
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Each week, Mr. Carnley’s ninth grade Braves read to MSE’s Little Warriors. This is a great example of schools teaming up to make epic things happen! Submitted by Krisy Spence
In honor of Grandparents Day, MHS invited our grandparents to come join them for a sweet treat. Submitted by Elizabeth Gaither!
Seventh grade students in Mrs. Rachel Jones' AVID class at Walton Middle School made a commitment to their futures during a recent contract signing ceremony. AVID is an elective college preparatory program that prepares students to attend a four-year college upon high school graduation. Principal Jason Campbell expressed his support for the program, its teachers, and their students. WMS students are undoubtedly determined to learn and succeed. Submitted by Kristen Nelson
Mrs. Vanessa Black, sixth grade math teacher at Walton Middle School, used an AVID inquiry and collaboration strategy to allow students to better understand the process of dividing mixed numbers. In the lesson, Mrs. Black posed a problem and allowed students an opportunity to first solve it independently. After working the problem solo, students traveled to different corners of the room based on their decided upon answers. Each corner represented a like-minded group, who had to defend why and how they arrived at their answers. Students who were undecided or wished to change their initial answers were allowed to move to different corners if they felt they had sufficient evidence to change their minds. Throughout the lesson, these young mathematicians engaged in thoughtful and knowledgeable dialogue with each other about how to divide mixed numbers.
Picture L to R: Eddie Burgess, Nicole Foushee, Keneth McCorkle, Nayeli Guerra-Avalos
