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HHJTeresa D. Southern
Nadia Ryle, left, and Allison Broeils, right, fifth-graders at
Quail Run Elementary participate in an arts and crafts
class, entitled Trash to Treasure, at Summer
Enhancement held at Bonaire Middle School. The pro
gram is an enrichment program for high achieving stu
dents.
RIGHT: Keina Crawford,
left, a student at
Thompson Middle, and
Hayley Ritchie, right, a stu
dent at Bonaire Middle
School show sharks they
dissected as part of their
oceanography class taught
by Carol Kahn also pic
tured.
BELOW: Keina Crawford,
left, a student at
Thompson Middle, and
Hayley Ritchie, right, a stu
dent at Bonaire Middle
School sit inside the ocean
floor replica they and other
members of their
Oceanography class in
Summer Enhancement
made.
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Peggy McCall, a teacher at Summer Enhancement 2005
shows students how to make tie-dyed T-shirts and
teaches them about covalent bonds.
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Bethany Fuss, a fifth-grader at Quail Run Elementary
watches her Summer Enhancement teacher Ann
Reynolds shows her a stitch in her Trash to Treasure
class.
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Summer 'school'
Houston students take part
in Enhancement courses
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
For two weeks, 500
Houston County students
have had their summer
vacation enhanced.
This enhancement, con
ducted at Bonaire Middle
School, included a variety of
enrichment classes for high
achieving students in fourth
through sixth grades.
Each classroom at Bonaire
Middle School had some
thing different going on. A
peep though the glass panes
on the door revealed stu
dents busy at work - but not
doing any reading or arith
metic.
About 15 to 20 students in
Ann Reynolds’ class turned
Trash into Treasure.
In their class, they made
sand art, bookmarks with
straws and yam, placemats
and tile art.
Amanda Smith, who will
be attending Huntington
Middle School in the fall,
said she has enjoyed learn
ing arts and crafts in the
program this summer.
“This is much more fun
than school,” she said as she
placed three freshly made
bookmarks on a counter
filled with students’ projects
from the week.
She said she would be in
attendance next year at
summer activity.
The idea for this summer
activity came from a
Houston educator more
than 20 years ago.
According to Barbara
Finley, director of gifted
education, Gervaise Perdue
felt students needed a way
to keep their minds occupied
during the summer months.
“She felt they needed a
well-balanced program to
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develop their mental skills
as well as their physical
skills,” Finley said.
This year in the program,
33 classes were offered and
ranged from classes in
scrapbooking to rocketry to
classes on making Beanie
Babies to TV broadcasting
and video production.
Classes even included golf
and tennis taught by golf
and tennis pros respectively.
There were also culinary
classes in which students,
learned cake-decorating
skills and participated in a
class entitled “Fun with
Food.”
And not to forget to chal
lenge the mind, students
had the option of taking
classes in debate, drama,
strings and Latin.
On Thursday there was an
open house for parents to
come and see the strings
and chorus perform - and to
see “Charlie Brown” per
formed by the program’s
drama class.
Finley, who also serves as
principal for Enhancement,
said the classes have
changed over the program’s
life span, but some have just
been updated such as
Photography, which is now
Digital Photography.
“We modernized classes,
but classes such as Snappy
Scrapping are new and
many of the things students
learn in these classes they
use elsewhere such as in sci
ence fair projects.
“Students will take away
what they’ve learned and
continue learning through
out the summer by doing
research and sharing what
they’ve done with their
friends,” Finley said.
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