Highland Elementary School

What a fun week in 4th grade science! 🔬👁 On Tuesday, students designed and built vision models to explore how eyes function with either high-sensitivity or low-sensitivity light receptors. Then on Thursday, they rotated through hands-on light stations to investigate shadows, refraction, color reflection and absorption, and the properties of transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. Learning has never been so bright!💡🌈🧪

Congratulations to Ms. Dials's and Mrs. Vanhoose's classrooms for earning a sweet reward from our FRYSC. These students enjoyed ice cream sundaes on a beautiful Friday afternoon.

What an amazing turnout for our Kindergarten Floats with GOATs event. We are so happy to get to celebrate you and all the amazing things you do for the students at Highland Elementary. We hope you enjoyed the student performance and your ice cream float! (Post 3 of 3)

What an amazing turnout for our Kindergarten Floats with GOATs event. We are so happy to get to celebrate you and all the amazing things you do for the students at Highland Elementary. We hope you enjoyed the student performance and your ice cream float! (Post 2 of 3)

Mrs. Bevins' math classes have started learning multiplication strategies this week. Today we worked on an activity using uno cards and counters to create and solve multiplication equations using arrays and equal groups. The students all had a great time with the hands on learning.

Mrs. Wright's class used Mixed Pair Share to demonstrate their knowledge of vocabulary words and share their Frayer Models with their peers. It was amazing to see the students take charge of their learning and help coach their peers in a productive and engaging environment.

Our learners took the lead- sharing their goals, growth, and achievements with confidence and pride. It was amazing to see them reflect on their hard work and take ownership of their learning. Thank you to our families for supporting and celebrating these important moments. Together, we're building not just scholars, but leaders! #studentledconferences #futureleaders

Students met with their accountability partners to discuss their Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) and their progress so far. Students will conduct check-ins with their partners every Friday. Join us for student-led conferences tonight from 3:30-5:30 to see your student's goal and check their progress.

Progress Reports are being sent home today! Parent/Teacher conferences are tomorrow from 3:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M.

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We had a great time in Mrs. Bevins' third grade math class reviewing for our first math unit test this week. Students got to use buzzers, play musical desks, subtraction rally coach, and played place value wars.

Our 6th grade Lighthouse Team Members were honored to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Johnson Central High School Career and Technical Center. These students will be among the very first to walk the halls when the school opens—what a special memory to be part of history in the making!

👷‍♀️🚧 Hard hats, shovels, and big smiles all around as they helped celebrate this new chapter for our community.

#FutureHighSchool #Groundbreaking #StudentLeaders #HistoryInTheMaking

5th graders explored Jamestown through a gallery walk! They learned about life in the first permanent English settlement.

Miss Fairchild's 1st grade class had so much fun last fun Friday! We ended the week with a fun craft along with some chips and dip from Tres Hermanos to celebrate our successful week learning about the short i sound.

Introducing our 2025-2026 Student Lighthouse Team! These kids have already been hard at work organizing their first Leadership Rally, recording their first podcast, and completing leadership role interviews. We can't wait to see the positive impact they will make on our school community this year! Congratulations Wildcats!

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Mrs. Bayes’s sixth-grade Science classes have been exploring Plate Motion. They developed expertise by analyzing four core drilling sites and identifying common characteristics among the samples from each site.

Mrs. Bayes's sixth-grade Social Studies classes have been exploring early human history and the ancient cave art from that period. Today, students engaged in a read-aloud activity focused on cave art, experienced a virtual reality tour of a cave in France, and concluded the day by designing their own cave art projects.

Our August Leaders of. the Month were all smiles at our first Leadership. Rally today. (Post 2 of 2))