Art Club & art students learned about & created Calaveras (sugar skull) pumpkins in the traditional style of “Dia De Los Muertos” (“Day of the Dead”), a celebration in Latin American countries which lasts several days, Oct. 31-Nov. 2nd, to honor friends and family who have died. Calaveras, or skull images, are decorative, and coincide with prayer, happy festivities... READ MORE >

Mrs. Turnbow’s fifth and sixth period science class performed their first lab, measuring liquid volume. Students practiced measuring volumes of three liquids and practiced transferring liquids from test tube to test tube. READ MORE >

6th grade STEM students recently used the Engineering Design Process to complete a Phase I catapult design. Students tested their designs in a competitive battle against another team's catapult. Each team received 3 chances to get a "direct hit" on their opponent's catapult. Phase I catapults could only be constructed with cardboard, tape, a wooden dowel, and... READ MORE >

7th grade students worked on 2 VOICE POEMS today in Mrs. Stacie's ELA class. These poems are a product of evidence from A LONG WALK TO WATER and other informational texts. Keep up the good work NMS! READ MORE >

Students in 8th grade Social Studies learned about the cotton gin today. Students were able to experience first hand how beneficial the cotton gin was to farmers by getting to remove seeds from their own piece of cotton. READ MORE >

8th grade ELA students in Mrs. Laura Bartlett and Ms. Torrie Dodd’s classes worked extremely hard on free verse poetry. The assignment was to write about a fictional refugee while incorporating nonfiction events. Students have been researching refugees through informational texts. The goal was to create a free verse poem similar to those we’ve read in our novel... READ MORE >