Our School - Fall 2018

School can be as exciting as we make it.  Here team-player Peighton E. energizes her teammates to respond with urgency during the "Silk Road Game" competition.  The simulation taught concepts about the Silk Road and the basic economics of early world trade and suppl and demand.  Above, Maria with our lunch helpers Mrs Bokan and Mrs Neeb.  Also, our school was recently featured on WNEP's point to the weather with Joe Snedecker.  Our holiday tree post was WNEP's last one for the season, I guess they saved the best for last.

Here you can see workers staining the gym from our "LGI" (Large Group Instruction room).  The large partition wall retracts into the ceiling to open a view down to our new gym.  Above, Peighton and Maria explore air pressure in our FOSS investigative science curriculum, another new feature at our new school.

Phil and Sophia enjoyed the fire company's visit to our school during Fire Prevention Month activities.  Above, Phil gets into an intense game of "Four-Square."  A new game for many here at our new school.  Also above, you can see the new gym floor with its shiny new coat of clear finish ready for use.  Not only will the near 1,000 students of the school use it for gym class each day, but the high school varsity basketball games are played here as well. 

Our Lehighton Area Elementary Center - By Avery B., Noelle K., and Morgan S.  

Our new gym seats over 1,300 people!  All our varsity basketball games are
now held in our school, the largest gym in Carbon County!  Here you can
see the wooden planks just after staining.  Next step will be the clear coat.

  Our cafeteria makes 936 meals for lunch and they only have 7 to 9 cooks! 

They manage to make all this food by working together and having different stations, but they still work as a team. Their boss make the menu for each month the month before. 

They estimate how much food they need based on how many students usually buy. It usually takes 1 ½ hours to prepare all the meals each day.


After lunch is over, they have to wash all the dishes with the handy dandy conveyor belt washing machine.

 

Our cafeteria does a wonderful job feeding breakfast and lunch to nearly 1,000 students each day.  The workers are
extremely dedicated and work hard and efficiently.  Can you believe?  They never run out of food and no one stands in line for more than five minutes!

     

     We have recess after lunch. Our lunch aides, Deanna Bokan and Amy  Neeb, transferred from Mahoning Elementary. 

Our athletic field from the new Elementary Center after sunrise.

A view from the Elementary Center stairwell.

The new gym during the sanding prior to the staining.

Even though they miss our old school, they love the new school and the students. Amy said, “We lunch aides work together as a team to make sure that all the students are behaving. It’s a team effort.’’ Another lunch aide Deanna Bokan said, “I love this job and I treat kids as if they are my own.”  They both agreed that it was difficult in the beginning but it is getting easier as time

Students learning inter-personal skills of deal making while learning about the origins of global trade from Mr. Rabenold's  Marco Polo Silk Road game.

goes on.       

     

Our Nutrition Group supervisor Lauren dons her winter-gear to brave
the zero degree cold of our walk in freezer to take a food inventory. 

         

These natural gas powered ovens are technically
advanced ways our staff prepares our food.
Today's menu, walking tacos, required all three
ovens to heat large tubs of hamburger.

Our new school also has two other Large Group Instructional areas we affectionately call "the Pit."  Students can sit in the stadium-like area to do group learning activities like Mr. Rabenold's "Wrap-Around" or use the interactive media projection system.