Category: Education

Nicaria Andry’s eighth grade English Language Arts (ELA) class at Escambia County Middle School is participating in an independent book study for the next five weeks. The students are reading Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver. Summary of Where the Lilies Bloom: Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers.…

It’s a first – first Star Students for the new school year and first Star Students ever for Rachel Patterson which has the pre-K and fourth grade from the closed A.C. Moore Elementary School. Shown are Star Students for August, from left, first row, Jayla Mitchell, Keelan Brown, Andrew Crenshaw, Jamari Coleman, Anna Jane Frost, Kamariana Wiggins, Jazlyn Frye, Tonia Richardson; second row, Jayleigh Brown, Athena Wilson, Carrie Bell Walker,…

At Escambia County Middle School, students in Ronda Hoffman’s eighth-grade science recently performed a variety of experiments in the ECMS Science Lab. The students explored properties of matter with eight investigation stations set up. Some of the properties explored were temperature, volume, density, solubility, floating and sinking, describing matter, and mixing liquids. After the lab was completed the students were able to explain the properties they observed from each investigation.…

By GERRI MCDONALD Special to Atmore News First graders at Perdido Elementary School are off to an exciting and challenging start to the school year.  One of their favorite times of the day is after lunch when they have story time with their teacher. No David by author David Shannon, is a series of books about a little boy who experiences many of the same things first graders do. The stories are…