Madison students traveled to space this week in the Digitarium. They learned about weather, planets, gravity, and the importance of our atmosphere for life on Earth. Madison Cardinals were the first humans to land on Mars!! Special thanks to the Region 8 Education Service Center for the use of their Digitarium.
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Madison 3rd graders had the opportunity to dissect crayfish. They learned about habitat, external, and internal anatomy. Thank you to Mrs. Gough's WCHS students for leading this lab!
Congratulations to Madison Elementary students!! They were awarded a Red Apple Grant to purchase 29 new waders for their annual creek-study visits to Cherry and Eagle Creek. A special thank you to the Warsaw Education Foundation for this opportunity! We are excited to try them out this spring. #WarsawInspires
Madison 5th graders have a cool indoor garden growing from the compost they made this fall. Mrs. Hale's class is growing carrots; Rizzo's class is growing lettuce; Hendrikse's students are growing cucumbers. They tend their produce each day and note any changes. Students are also 3D printing custom made pots to start more seeds! This STEM project is incorporating agriculture and technology. #WarsawInspires
Madison 6th graders participated in a STEM challenge. They examined the structures of how towers are built. Then they had 7 minutes to build the tallest tower possible using index cards and tape. -Learning to work under pressure! Students were given roles(primary builder, materials specialist, and measurer) and then worked through STEM components: creating a model, collaboration, and data analysis. The tallest tower was 68 mm! #WarsawInspires
Madison Kindergarteners participated in an engineering lesson using Lego Duplos. Students built a seesaw to display science concepts: balanced & unbalanced. They tested their creation to help solve the problem: Why is the model seesaw not balancing correctly? #WarsawInspires
Madison 3rd grade wrote personal narratives and then turned them into an interactive digital story using ScratchJr to code and program their characters. They learned and practiced Programs & Algorithms(Computer Science standards) by designing a program that incorporates sequences, events, and loops. Plus it was super fun!! #WarsawInspires
Madison's 6th graders were able to participate in Squid Dissections this week. They learned squids have 3 hearts and live 3-5 years. After dissecting, they pulled out the spine, dipped it in the ink sac, and wrote their names!! Thank you to Mrs. Gough's HS students for leading this science lab. #WarsawInspires
Congratulations to our November Cardinals of the Month! #WCSinspires
We are proud to announce that we've been recognized as a Riley Red Wagon Corporation by the Riley Children’s Foundation in partnership with the Indiana Association of School Principals!
Thank you to our students, staff and community for coming together to make it possible for us to support the children and families receiving care at Riley Hospital for Children.
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Madison's Girls in STEM afterschool club has one more meeting next Tuesday. Thank you to Jodi Hanson and her Grace College Elementary Ed students for teaching science and programming to the girls. Check out this "Girls in STEM" Recap video! #WarsawInspires
https://youtu.be/5sHU-5hzCzM?si=fDvUoqk7ldwjVZ9E
Join us for the Warsaw Schools Orchestra Holiday Concert on Sunday, December 10, 2024, at 7:00 PM at the Warsaw Performing Arts Center!
Featuring performances by:
🎶 Beginning Orchestra
🎶 Advanced Middle School Orchestra
🎶 Obbligato String Orchestra
🎶 Philharmonic Orchestra
Admission is free, and free-will donations are accepted to support these talented young musicians. Don't miss this festive evening filled with holiday cheer! 🎄
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For the second part of their Rocks & Fossils lesson with imi Construction, Madison 4th graders learned how to make concrete. They used Fillers(stone and sand) mixed with the Binder(cement) and a little water to make their own concrete fossils. Thank you to imi Construction for donating the materials! #WarsawInspires
Madison 6th graders enjoyed a tour of our neighbor and community partner Banner Medical. They learned how computers are used to program their machinery to cut, polish, and calculate the density of the metals that are sent out for medical supplies and tools. Students were told "If you love drawing, math, and are good at communicating, you would be a great engineer!" Student were also exposed to a variety of other jobs. Thank you Banner Medical!! #WarsawInspires
Parachute Week at Madison in Mr. Crone's P.E. class!! Students used upper body exercises to raise and lower the parachute as well as launching balls as high as possible. Then they made a Parachute Cave and switched places underneath. Students used teamwork to try to bounce dodgeballs into the basket. 5th grade actually hit the rim and blasted the ceiling! So much fun...no one wanted to leave. #WarsawInspires
Leslie Williams, Educational Outreach & Marketing Coordinator from KC Recycling Depot came to Madison to check out the 5th grader's vermicomposting projects. She tested nitrogen levels in each groups bins for students to record. She also discussed careers in the recycling industry. Leslie states, "I'm impressed at the passion these students are committing to composting and a greener future!" #WarsawInspires
Madison 4th graders learned about different kinds of rocks and fossils. This program was led by imi Construction through a Zoom Meeting. They taught the students about sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. This was a hands-on activity as students had their own rock collection that they could take home! #WarsawInspires
Mrs. Kelly's Kindergarteners were 3 Little Pig Architects. They learned about what an architect does, and then they planned, built, and tested their homes. Students used toothpicks, popsicle sticks, or small sponges to resemble straw, sticks, and bricks. Then the Big Bad Leaf Blower tried to Huff and Puff them down! #WarsawInspires
Madison 6th graders learned about 3D printing and the differences between 2 and 3 dimensional objects in the STEM Lab. They used Tinkercad software to design a nametag using text, holes, and geometric shapes as well as converting millimeters to centimeters to predict the size of their project. #WarsawInspires
Beginning this week, Madison students will be learning different Computer Science standards in Innovation Lab(Library). K-2nd grade students will be doing some intro to computer science lessons, and 3rd - 6th graders will be taking a coding course through Code.org to learn about different code blocks through problem solving. #WarsawInspires
