Mar 21st, 2013
LAKE WALES – Some Bok Academy reading students are getting extra help preparing for this year’s FCAT reading assessment – thanks to the JROTC program at Lake Wales High School.
Since January, JROTC cadets have visited Bok Academy every Thursday to work with their seventh and eighth grade “partners” on FCAT reading strategies.
“It is a wonderful benefit for our students. The cadets also mentor the students by sharing about their own high school experiences and talking about JROTC,” said Chandra Johnson, who teaches the two single-gender classes of boys who are participating.
PHOTO #1: Thomas Wilburn (left), 9th grade, listens as 7th grader Josh Janoski reads.
PHOTO #2: Seth Shafer (left), 7th grade, reads an assignment about corn snakes, while 10th grader Brittany Richards listens and provides feedback.
PHOTO #3: One reading pair finds a shady spot, while others work in the sunshine at Bok Academy on Thursday (March 21).
LAKE WALES – Lake Wales High’s Special Olympic track and field relay team qualified and participated in the State Summer Games May 17-18 at ESPN Wide World of Sports.
LAKE WALES –– Hillcrest Elementary kindergarten students are celebrating the end of school by reading their own copies of “Change The World Before Bedtime” by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh Chalmers and Karen Good.
LAKE WALES – Age and experience triumphed over youth and energy when Janie Howard Wilson staff faced fifth graders in the elementary school’s annual spring softball game last week. The adults won the game 22-8.
