IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR
KID'S MINDS TO WASTE AWAY OVER
THE SUMMER, AN AREA SCHOOL HAS
JUST THE THING FOR THEM. WE
FIND OUT WHERE AND HOW YOU CAN
STILL SIGN THEM UP FROM KSN'S
STUART PRICE.
STUART PRICE WELCOME TO
AMANDA BEARD'S MAGIC SCHOOL
BUS SCIENCE LAB AT THOMAS
JEFFERSON INDEPENDENT DAY
SCHOOL. SHE'S HELPING KIDS TO
MAKE A FRUIT BASED VOLCANO.
THE NATURAL ACID INSIDE A
LEMON, COMBINED WITH A FEW
DROPS OF FOOD COLORING, A
LITTLE BIT OF DISH SOAP AND
THEN THE FINAL INGREDIENT.
Amanda Beard, Thomas Jefferson
Kindergarten Teacher"We'll
take a spoon full of baking
soda and stick it in your
lemon volcano" AND YOU HAVE
LEMON LAVA. (NAT-OOH)Amanda
Beard, Thomas Jefferson
Kindergarten Teacher"So for
our Magic School Bus Class we
made lemon volcanoes, we're
going to um make homemade
bubbles, slime, bouncy balls"
OTHER OPTIONS INCLUDE
S.T.E.M. IMMERSION.Kendra
Spencer, Thomas Jefferson 7th
Grade"Kind of wanted to take
S.T.E.M. as an elective and
see what it was like before I
got into it"Stuart Price,
Reporting"And what do you
think so far"Kendra Spencer,
Thomas Jefferson 7th Grade"I
like it"Stuart Price, Reporting
"This is the 2nd of five weeks
worth of courses offered
through the Summer Discovery
Academy which is now in it's
13th year" IN THE SHOWTIME
CLASS, STUDENTS WILL PRACTICE
AND THEN PERFORM THE
CHILDREN'S VERSION OF THE PLAY
"ANNIE"(NAT-IT'S A HARD KNOCK
LIFE FOR US)Robert Carlson,
Director of Communications"We
have classes this week and
next week for the rest of the
program for students going
into pre-Kindergarten all the
way up to 12th grade, so for
high school students we have
essay writing workshops and
S.A.T. Prep classes, we have
Pre-Kindergarten and
Kindergarten going into jump
start classes to kind of get
them a little bit of a head on
starting school in the fall"
IN JOPLIN, STUART PRICE, KSN
LOCAL NEWS. THERE ARE
STILL OPENINGS IN ALMOST ALL
COURSE OFFERINGS NEXT WEEK AND
